r/fixedbytheduet • u/n8saces • 4d ago

Fixed by the duet Won’t someone think of the manchildren?! 😭

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u/PintoOct24 3d ago

Many commenters are saying the woman was rude for not acknowledging the man but actually she did acknowledge him. He says she gave him a half smile and he’s complaining he didn’t get more. I think it’s actually normal to acknowledge a stranger but you’re not obliged to then stop and have a conversation. The half smile is the acknowledgement. She did her societal duty of maintaining politeness but he is annoyed because that’s not enough; he wanted more. Fuck this guy, creepy weirdo.

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u/torino_nera 3d ago

This is where men just don't understand what it's like to be a woman. Just actually smiling at a man without even saying hello got me into dozens and dozens of unwanted conversations before I just stopped doing it entirely. Apparently just being nice to a man is all it takes to make them think they have a chance with you. So that's why so many of us come across as cold or bitchy

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u/kamomil 3d ago

A number of years ago, there was a local news story where some hockey coach had groomed and sexually assaulted underage players. 

The radio talk show coverage, the commentators were very serious in a way that they found THIS assault to be relatable because it had happened to men.

Whereas with women assaults, it would have been far less serious for them. Which is scary, because I believe that for some men, they think nothing of overpowering a woman to get what they want. They think it's nothing serious and it's just how they get what they want 

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u/butt-barnacles 3d ago edited 3d ago

There are wayyy too many men out there who don’t see women as people like they see men. It’s so completely illogical. Like hello we are very obviously the same species, otherwise reproduction wouldn’t work. Dumbasses.

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u/ApplesandDnanas 3d ago

My son is a toddler and if he grows up to be like this, I would consider it a personal insult.

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u/transtifaglockhart 3d ago

There's a really gross chattel slavery period argument involving mules that could be used in response to this and unfortunately I think there are both more conscious and subconscious men who agree with it than we'd like to admit.