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How does it feel to be

the same sex as Donald Trump?

How does it feel to be

the same sex as Sarah Palin?

How does it feel to be

the same sex as Michelle Bachman?

How does it feel to be the

same sex as anybody you disagree with?

Why does it even matter

whether or not you're the

same gender as somebody else?

I mean, I'm also the same

gender as Abraham Lincoln, Einstein,

and the guy who introduced

chocolate to the Western world.

So what are you even getting

at with this question?

Are you trying to say Donald Trump

is bad, and Donald Trump

is a man, therefore men are bad?

Why do you hate rom-coms?

Or do you just feel like you

need to hate them?

Everybody likes The Notebook,

everybody likes Beyoncé.

It's just a fact.

Men hate romantic comedies

for the same reason you

hate video games with

over-sexualized female characters.

The men in these movies are

always willing to sacrifice

their careers, their dreams,

even their lives to win

the lead females' affection.

Now I don't have any empirical

data to back this up, but

it seems to me that

romantic comedies and

romance movies in general

cause women to have unrealistic

expectations of men and what

love should be like, and these

become the expectations

that men have to live up to,

and it's unfair.

Feminists like to bitch

about poor representation of women

in media intended for men

because they promote body issues

and shit like that

And I agree, to at least, an extent

But it's not any better for men

When we're expected to be Prince Charming,

ready and willing to sacrifice themselves

physically, mentally, and emotionally

And we're called selfish for daring to

have our own desires

or even misogynistic for daring to draw

attention to our own problems.

These movies appeal to the female fantasy

of having a night in shinning armor

swear their entire existence to pleasing

them, and thus reinforce these notions

within their target audience of women

like you that you somehow deserve

to have your boyfriends and husbands

give up everything that makes them

who they are and basically dehumanize

themselves for your pleasure and

devote 100% of their time and energy

to you. The fact that some of you

watching this scoffing at what I

just said only proves my point.

You have fooled yourself into thinking

that I'm somehow the one whose being

selfish when I object to the notion

that men should be expected to cave

into all of your demands, for the sake of

your perverted idealistic conception

of love. And I have no doubts that

some of you will accuse me of being

bitter at some ex girlfriend for saying

that, but I'm not and I will

pre-emptively characterize such an

argument as out cropping of the

very mentality that I'm talking about.

You expect