GS Confessions, please refer this post to the MAN in charge.. thanks

Do you not leave your own scalding comments and downvotes on said confessions already?? Road goes both ways.

Even anonymous confessions need to be safe spaces now?

Darling, you need to re-think how this works. You are delusional!

I know that growing up, I always had to have my hair cut how mom liked---once I was old enough to get my own haircuts, if I let it grow longer than she liked, I was given some cutting remark. And I remember once how a girlfriend would give me advice on how I needed a haircut, should wear better clothes (I'm not an office critter, I am fine in ripped Sabbath t-shirts...), etc. And I complied for a while, but eventually I said "look, I appreciate how much you care about me, but I feel OK no matter what I wear, I'm comfortable with myself..." she looked at me like I was some stupid little boy (are we getting the picture) who was completely detached from reality.

Her explanation was, and I am pretty much quoting verbatim here, "it has nothing to do with you, it has to do with what strangers on the street would think if they saw me with you."

So, like domestic violence, I don't think this is a man problem, I think it is a people problem---some people are uptight and like to treat others as props in a television show, and some aren't. Not that we don't all have standards.

If we use a quantitative model, I'd suggest men are more subject to these things, because I see far less variety in male wardrobe and hairstyles. I mean, women can basically wear anything a man can wear, plus anything a woman can wear. Nobody looks at a woman in pants like she's trans, and you can bet that if I wore a dress just because I like how it feels (cooler in the summer than pants), you'd bet most people, even "liberated women" would think it is because I am trans or something. Sure, I guess I could wear a kilt, but even that, you're going to get looks that a woman just doesn't get for wearing pants.

Also, having had friends who lived overseas in the middle east where men and women are highly segregated, women still preen and dress up and are very concerned about these things---it's to impress other women, especially strangers. Men are men, women are women the world over.

And a woman can get a job even if she doesn't shave her legs---sure, maybe there are a small number of jobs where a skirt is the dress code, but that might change soon. Lots of jobs require men to shave their faces...like being a clerk at Safeway!

One thing is for sure tho, men have less space to talk about these issues.

1. Confessions with a feminist or female point of view always get far
more upvotes than downvotes.
2. Confessions about relationships/dating from a male point of
view or posts that are critical of women are inundated with
downvotes and negative comments. So, judging by this website
(and the upvotes of your post) , how misogynistic can "our
society" be?
3. Perhaps nobody told you but....men are sexually attracted to
women. I know it sounds crazy, but its true. So yeah, if you have
weird piercings or funky eyebrows that make you look insane,
then sometimes we'll say something about it. Its kind of like
telling someone when they have spinach in their teeth.

International Women's Day was March 8th. Why are you so late to the party?

STFU

we are that obsessed. And in fact, once we are old and uninterested in your bodies, we have zero interest in talking to you. Just sayin'.

It's always been this misogynistic EVERYWHERE.
Unfortunately, some of these denser humans believe allowing a woman to live as freely as a man means we will congregate and conspire to cull all the males using witchcraft and our periods. The truth is, I don't want to kill anyone with my period, I just want an equal shot at success and not to be mocked, humiliated or attacked for expecting equality.
..and a quick note to the dudes on here ranting about feminism. People like you have made moments of my life a living hell when all I wanted was the opportunity to be my personal best. So rather than attacking women and a political movement created to support our rights as HUMANS, look at yourselves and figure out where all that hate comes from. What do you honestly think you will lose from supporting equality other than your ignorance?