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I guess it’s something I just dun understand : Even if you took an abuse dynamic I was intimately familiar w/ and put absurd things in it and I recognized it.. I wouldn’t find it funny 🙁
Ami,
No Seinfeld / South Park for you
I remember the brother of an old exgirlfriend now
The dude had a crappy phone and I had just purchased an iphone. He had a long argument with me where he tried to convince me to give him my iphone plus two hundred bucks in exchange of his crappy phone. He didnt say “if you really love me” nor “if you really love my sister”, but if he had, he would fit the comic on this post.
Thing is, Im very aware of when people manipulates. I see [some] women doing this kind of stuff all the time. To get what they want / to enter places / to get better deals, flirting and showing skin while playing the “if you really..” card. Sometimes its funny, sometimes is not.
Story two, a girlfriend I had when I had created a company. I gave her a job and suddenly realized she was taking the best spots, computer, location, window, salary, etc, and became demanding and wanted ownership, so I kicked her out and cut loose. And I have seen a LOT of stuff like that happening in many relationships.
Story three, a couple of brothers had a company, one of the bros hired his gf and she slowly took over the company made the bros fight and end up ruining a lot of stuff. The dude eventually ditched her and rebuilt another company with his bro again. They are rich now (and married with other women)
But, before the yada yada comes, there are similar stories for dudes messing up relationships, and fucking up familes, so screwing things up aint women´s prerogative.
So, does it happen? yeah. Does it happen universally? no. Is the cartoon accurate on describing how it happens? yeah. Is it funny? very.
If the MRAs think this is how “all women” act, they are wrong. You still have to be careful with the women who are like this, though.
o_O
I find Seinfeld super hilarious tho xD I’ve watched every episode and have most of them memorized XD
Haha, theres plenty of emotional abuse on Seinfeld! And they have this kind of “two cars” absurd argument often
Um ok xD if you say so :3
The problem with what you’re saying – it doesn’t happen universally, you aren’t universalising – is that you directly contradict that in your actual sentences.
For example, why is the some in brackets here?
“I see [some] women doing this kind of stuff all the time.”
Also this sentence:
“You still have to be careful with the women who are like this, though.”
Would better illustrate that you weren’t making this about women being self-involved if it went like this:
“You still have to be careful with people who are like this, though.”
“The mechanics are real, the situation is absurd = joke”
See, we’re used to trolls insisting that absurdity like this is How All Women Are. So some people are treating the cartoon-maker as if he were serious about all women being exactly as awful as the woman in the video.
And I just checked out the website mentioned in the video. If the cartoon-maker is serious about talking about abusive relationships, he might want to take down all those pictures of blood-soaked evil women. Bee, one of those pictures is going to look awfully familiar.
Yeah what is w/ all those pictures? o_O
“Yeah what is w/ all those pictures? o_O”
It’s time to play Guess The Angry MRA’s Fetish again!
Vampires! 😀
Dare I say it…a menstrual blood fetish?!
that goes right into your card Lyn! xD
the dude is a dumbass then
I was just catching up on the cards! Love all the Beetches 🙂
Lyn,
“Would better illustrate that you weren’t making this about women being self-involved if it went like this:
You still have to be careful with people who are like this, though.”
Like said, my experience with these traits is when theres women involved, but heck, Im a man.
Guys have to be careful about women like that / just like women have to be careful with manipulative jerks, not just bad “people”. Sexual attraction / chemistry can work against you and cloud your judgement and let stuff happen that you wouldnt otherwise, so you are more vulnerable to become a prey of the sex you are attracted to.
If the cartoon pictured two brothers, there wouldnt be a joke / no cartoon.
But, MRAs seem to think all about male / female relationships is about being a prey or in the case of PUA, making her a prey = sickness.
xD
I’m glad! 😀
Yohami, I clicked through to your blog. I very much liked the last piece of advice to the man who kept ‘chasing’ girls. You said ‘keep moving along, she knows where to find you.’ This kind of advice certainly helped me live a happy life when I was young and thought you ‘had to’ have a partner. (assuming i’ve understood you, of course 🙂 )
Magpie, yeah, chasing is the second worst idea ever, right after number one: trying to change somebody else´s persona to fit your own 🙂
welcome to my blog btw
Well ok – I can see that you’re likely to be victimised by the people you tend to fall in love with – they after all have more power to hurt you. But, I also think that people the same sex as you can totally screw you over even when you aren’t attracted to them – I had an extremely manipulative friend in high school who totally messed me up. Likewise at work – plenty of same-sex interactions can be incredibly manipulative and not-nice. I think warning people about how a particular gender is more likely to screw with you is problematic. I mean, what about that guy who was trying to manipulate you into giving him your phone and $200? Story no. 1? What if you hadn’t been on your guard and picked up on the fact that he was trying to screw you over just cos he was a dude and you assume dudes don’t try to hurt other dudes? Also, you could probably clarify that straight guys need to look out for het women like that…cos assuming everyone is heterosexual is also not the best way to make your point.
I guess my mantra is to hate (or like) people for who they are.
Lyn, maybe Yohami was just thinking ‘love is blind’. Did you ever get snow down there, btw?
Yohami – agree on trying to change someone else – made that mistake once (I shudder to think of the horrible things I’ve done, sometimes)
Lyn,
In the case of the story 1, I was young and naive, if he had been a girl I had the hots for, I would have fallen for it. I would even let her keep her crappy phone.
But he was a guy, so I saw clearly it was a bad deal.
But, can manipulative people get to you regardless of gender? yah.
“Also, you could probably clarify that straight guys need to look out for het women like that…cos assuming everyone is heterosexual is also not the best way to make your point.”
Im really NOT interested on covering my ass and making my stuff sound politically correct for everyone and every possible sexual orientation whenever I say something. Nor ethernal discussions about NAWALT or AWALT or Heteronormative or sweeping generalizations nor ad hominem etc, way too boring.
Im only clarifying my statements so much because Im new here and dont want to pass for a troll. From now on if I say something totally disproportionate like “men are attracted to women” I dont need to clarify Im not talking about gays / nor trying to make absolute truths from my ass, cool?
David,
“Yohami – agree on trying to change someone else – made that mistake once (I shudder to think of the horrible things I’ve done, sometimes)”
yeah, no joke.
Snow? O_o
Snow would’ve been awesome, but so far just frosty frost and ice on my windscreen 🙁
Ah, yes. There is a bit of a ‘I love you and will do anything for you’ thing going around. Reasons why I think that our understandings of romance and love needs a refit number 482. 😉
I meant Magpie, not David, my eyes are playing tricks on me