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(beep)

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(screaming)

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(jazzy intro)

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How does it feel to be

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the same sex as Donald Trump?

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How does it feel to be

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the same sex as Sarah Palin?

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How does it feel to be

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the same sex as Michelle Bachman?

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How does it feel to be the

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same sex as anybody you disagree with?

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Why does it even matter

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whether or not you're the

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same gender as somebody else?

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I mean, I'm also the same

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gender as Abraham Lincoln, Einstein,

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and the guy who introduced

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chocolate to the Western world.

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So what are you even getting

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at with this question?

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Are you trying to say Donald Trump

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is bad, and Donald Trump

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is a man, therefore men are bad?

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Why do you hate rom-coms?

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Or do you just feel like you

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need to hate them?

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Everybody likes The Notebook,

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everybody likes Beyoncé.

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It's just a fact.

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Men hate romantic comedies

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for the same reason you

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hate video games with

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over-sexualized female characters.

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The men in these movies are

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always willing to sacrifice

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their careers, their dreams,

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even their lives to win

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the lead females' affection.

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Now I don't have any empirical

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data to back this up, but

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it seems to me that

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romantic comedies and

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romance movies in general

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cause women to have unrealistic

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expectations of men and what

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love should be like, and these

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become the expectations

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that men have to live up to,

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and it's unfair.

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Feminists like to bitch

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about poor representation of women

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in media intended for men

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because they promote body issues

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and shit like that

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And I agree, to at least, an extent

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But it's not any better for men

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When we're expected to be Prince Charming,

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ready and willing to sacrifice themselves

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physically, mentally, and emotionally

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And we're called selfish for daring to

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have our own desires

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or even misogynistic for daring to draw

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attention to our own problems.

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These movies appeal to the female fantasy

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of having a night in shining armor

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swear their entire existence to pleasing

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them, and thus reinforce these notions

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within their target audience of women

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like you that you somehow deserve

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to have your boyfriends and husbands

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give up everything that makes them

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who they are and basically dehumanize

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themselves for your pleasure and

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devote 100% of their time and energy

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to you. The fact that some of you

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watching this are scoffing at what I

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just said only proves my point.

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You have fooled yourself into thinking

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that I'm somehow the one whose being

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selfish when I object to the notion

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that men should be expected to cave

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into all of your demands, for the sake of

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your perverted idealistic conception

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of love. And I have no doubts that

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some of you will accuse me of being

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bitter at some ex girlfriend for saying

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that, but I'm not and I will

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pre-emptively characterize such an

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argument as out cropping of the

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very mentality that I'm talking about.

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You expect all of your demands to be

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catered to, and any man who is unwilling

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or unable to cater to them must have

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something wrong with them. Us men are

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human beings with our own interests and

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goals, and it's selfish for you to expect

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us to give all that up for you.

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But these movies condition you to expect

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exactly that. And that is why we hate

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romantic comedies. We don't see anything

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romantic about them. What we see is the

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reinforcement of unfair and unreasonable

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expectations about what we should be doing

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with our own lives. Also, fuck Beyonce.

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"Why do you make women sit around and talk

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about men in movies when y'all easily just

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sit around and talk about boobs for hours?

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One, I don't know, maybe you should be

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asking that to people who rent romantic

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comedies you like so much, because

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those are the movies which have women

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sitting around talking about men. Or,

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better yet, instead of complaining about

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how writers depict women in their movies,

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maybe you should try being the change you

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want to see and write your own damn movie.

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Then you could make the female characters

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sit around and talk about whatever you

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want. Like how men are oppressing them, or

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how men are objectifying them or how men

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are such pigs, or how men spread their

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legs too far apart on the subway, or how

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men hate romantic comedies. There's

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nothing stopping you.

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Two, you're referring to the Bechdel Test,

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which is bullshit. All the Twilight movies

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pass the Bechdel Test, but I think you'd

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hesitate to call any of those movies

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"pro-feminist."

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Three, I don't know a single guy who ever

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talks about boobs for hours at a time.

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I think the only guys who do are medical

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students learning how to conduct

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mammograms. You want to know what most of

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the men I know talk about? Movies, video

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games, politics, religion, music, sports,

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cars, boats, technology, work, guns,

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hunting, places they've been to, people

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they've met, and so on. The subject of

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boobs actually rarely ever comes up.

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Contrary to what you may have been told in

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your Women's Studies class, men don't

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think about sex constantly. If we did, we

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would never have invented the camera

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equipment you used to make this video.

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Four. If anybody's talking about boobs for

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hours at a time, it's feminists. You're

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the ones who are always whining about

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the designs of fictional characters,

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complaining that fat girls' tits are too

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big. And in all honesty, the only time I

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ever even think about a comic book

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character's tits is when I hear a feminist

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bring it up. So I think maybe you're

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projecting.

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"Why do you automatically assume that you

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won't like the TV or movies that star a

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female lead?"

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I don't. In fact, some of my favorite

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movies and TV shows have female leads.

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I don't know a single man who has ever

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scoffed at the notion of watching a movie

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or TV show just because it has a female

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protagonist. However, I have seen

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feminists scoff at anything with a male

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lead.

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"Why are you surprised when women are

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funny?" "I'm probably funnier than you!"

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I'm not surprised when women are funny.

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There are plenty of funny women out there.

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[names not recognized], et cetera.

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But I will say that, in general, women are

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not as funny as men, and I think most

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women won't agree with that statement.

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I also think there's a reason for this.