36 STUPID FEMINIST QUESTIONS ANSWERED

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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 shining 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 are 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 all of your demands to be

catered to, and any man who is unwilling

or unable to cater to them must have

something wrong with them. Us men are

human beings with our own interests and

goals, and it's selfish for you to expect

us to give all that up for you.

But these movies condition you to expect

exactly that. And that is why we hate

romantic comedies. We don't see anything

romantic about them. What we see is the

reinforcement of unfair and unreasonable

expectations about what we should be doing

with our own lives. Also, fuck Beyonce.

"Why do you make women sit around and talk

about men in movies when y'all easily just

sit around and talk about boobs for hours?

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

asking that to people who rent romantic

comedies you like so much, because

those are the movies which have women

sitting around talking about men. Or,

better yet, instead of complaining about

how writers depict women in their movies,

maybe you should try being the change you

want to see and write your own damn movie.

Then you could make the female characters

sit around and talk about whatever you

want. Like how men are oppressing them, or

how men are objectifying them or how men

are such pigs, or how men spread their

legs too far apart on the subway, or how

men hate romantic comedies. There's

nothing stopping you.

Two, you're referring to the Bechdel Test,

which is bullshit. All the Twilight movies

pass the Bechdel Test, but I think you'd

hesitate to call any of those movies

"pro-feminist."

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

talks about boobs for hours at a time.

I think the only guys who do are medical

students learning how to conduct

mammograms. You want to know what most of

the men I know talk about? Movies, video

games, politics, religion, music, sports,

cars, boats, technology, work, guns,

hunting, places they've been to, people

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

boobs actually rarely ever comes up.

Contrary to what you may have been told in

your Women's Studies class, men don't

think about sex constantly. If we did, we

would never have invented the camera

equipment you used to make this video.

Four. If anybody's talking about boobs for

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

the ones who are always whining about

the designs of fictional characters,

complaining that fat girls' tits are too

big. And in all honesty, the only time I

ever even think about a comic book

character's tits is when I hear a feminist

bring it up. So I think maybe you're

projecting.

"Why do you automatically assume that you

won't like the TV or movies that star a

female lead?"

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

movies and TV shows have female leads.

I don't know a single man who has ever

scoffed at the notion of watching a movie

or TV show just because it has a female

protagonist. However, I have seen

feminists scoff at anything with a male

lead.

"Why are you surprised when women are

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

I'm not surprised when women are funny.

There are plenty of funny women out there.

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But I will say that, in general, women are

not as funny as men, and I think most

women won't agree with that statement.

I also think there's a reason for this.