What's your opinion on feminism?

I have a coworker who is pretty much feminist now, because she has been cheated on by two men in the past few years. She's actually a pretty nice gal who doesn't really talk about her feelings publically.

Edit: For the record, I didn't actually refer to my coworker as a feminist. She says that she might be becoming one herself is what she told me.

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BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP

Rose I am male and I hope you can understand where I am coming from to a huge extent- I've been bullied most of my life, most of the bullies have been boys.

most of the people who give me shit about failing to live up to masculine expectations are men.

and I have also had the Displeasure of Watching somebody I had feelings for Float in and out of Abusive relationship after Abusive relationship and I know on some level it takes two to tango and that I can't absolve her of all responsibility for what happened to her but it was still excruciating and I know that while Domestic Violence does occasionally happen to men and even by women it's PRIMARILY a crime of men beating women.

Given the overwhelming reality there and the various misbehavior men have largely EARNED their low reputation fair and square.

I don't hate men across the board I'm not perjudice against them as a group but I do on a level understand that ENTIRELY TOO many of them are in fact scum.

That's not even scratching the surface of the Hump and dipsose of behavior the pursuing a woman all the way into the bedroom lying to her telling her they love her getting her to open her legs and then LEAVING the minute after like she's nothing but a cum rag for them.

I'm sorry but our behavior towards you as a sex has been truly deplorable and it's almost as if you blind yourself to it.

I for one rise in support of Feminism.

SW-User

@BetweenKittensandRiots First off, I am sorry that you were bullied. What you described is pretty sad. There are good and bad apples out there. I've observed and interacted with some totally disgusting men on here for example, and have read about many on the news. Unfortunately you hear more often about the bad that people do than the good. I know that there are definitely good men out there though because I have heard about them as well.

BetweenKittensandRiots · 36-40, MVIP

@SW-User Yeah I can be a little bit naive sometimes because of it because honest you girls were rarely ever the problem in fact my relationship with the female side of the equation has been more charmed than anything else...

I know better than to expect you to be superhuman or anything like you do still use the facilities obviously.

it's just that when relations have generally been good albeit there are women I wish I could forget and burn from my memories forever but for the most part you've been damn precious.. and it makes it really difficult to not come across as sort of naive and stupid about women.

we all know there are bad apples in your camp too same with any group.

it's just that you've generally been the better half of humanity for me.

to be crude we could say there are bitches and there are assholes it's just the assholes outnumber the bitches about 10 to 1.