It's hard to concentrate on this in such a sandwich-free environment....

Everywhere I go, people hassle me for my massive dong. Why, just the other day I was in Target, idly browsing the aisles, when an 8 yr old girl grabbed her mom's hand and went "Mommy, look at that man's peeeeeeeeennnnnniiiiiisssss." Mommy's face got embarrased, and I watched her eyes track down to my crotch where they got very wide. "Oh my" she said. Still staring at my crotch she said "that's some equipment you got there." Her daughter put in "Mommy, his balls are huge too".

I cannot tell you how angry this makes me, as it happens everywhere I go. Women point and whisper to each other. They'll come up and ask me "is that thing real?" They'll stare obviously at my crotch when I trying to complete a simple farking transaction with them. Some of them get bold, and ask if they can touch it, and some just reach out and grab it. They catcall all the time.

My friends have told me that if I want to stop being harassed and looked at, I should stop wearing skintight pants and my bulge enhancing underwear, and I should not go out of house wearing nothing but leggings.

But I maintain that it is the fault of society. I have a right to wear whatever I want, deem comfortable or fashionable, and I take it as a woman's responsibility to control herself and not stare at my junk. I didn't give you permission to look or comment, so you don't have that right, ladies.

/jailbreak the matriarchy
//amidoingitrite?

I've made a list of things Angry Feminists like about men:

THE GREAT NAME: Pincy: THE GREAT NAME: Pincy: Comedian Ever Mainard sums up this mindset in her excellent bit about the fact that women are constantly aware that "their rape" could happen at any time. She says, "The problem is that every woman has that one moment when you think, here's my rape!

Just asked my wife about this. At just over 40 she's had two of these moments that she can recall. That sucks.

So now a woman doesn't even have to be raped to be a victim of rape? Get real. Things happen that scare us sometimes.

Did I say she was a victim of rape? NO. I said she thought she was going to be raped. One if definitely worse than the other but it still sucks that women have to constantly be on their guard.

As a man, I can honestly say that I have never once thought to myself "I think I'm going to be raped". My guess is the percentage of men who have never had this feeling is much much higher than the percentage of women. To pretend otherwise is ridiculous.

Men have to be constantly on guard about the thread of a false rape accusation. A successful false rape accusation is just as bad as a rape and so the fear is just as legitimate.

Ya, I know when I'm walking down the street at night I'm constantly on my guard for roving packs of women accusing me of raping them.

Maybe guys would stop acting like this if women stopped rewarding them by sleeping with them while they are young and pretty and then marrying the nice guy when she's old and used up....

Well...did she get the beef or pork taco??

Taco...giggity

So if a guy yells, "show your tits" an a lady shows her tits, was he being an arsehole or not?

I have been on Fark for almost 6 years now, and although I don't comment on things, I'm on here daily, reading articles and comments.

After reading the comments in this article, I'm done with this site.

I can't believe I was a (very small) part of this community.

I am disgusted, to the point of being physically sickened, by the majority of comments on this article.

For those of you who still have the stomach to stay and stand up for what's right against these 'people', thank you, but I just can't anymore.

WhippingBoy: Do you think that this doesn't happen to men? When I was younger, I had my ass groped (without my consent) a number of times.

Never happend to me even once. Stop wearing tight jeans, you slut, and women will stop harassing you.

Switch, you just need a gun

Ladies: You can have equality when you stop using your body to get free shiat.

Deal?

"Where's my magic button?". Its called marriage sweetheart!

// YES I know what ring that is

omeganuepsilon: I've brought this up in other threads, but as the populace of fark gets more infested with people of average or lower IQ's it's more and more relevant. Can you truely get people of low IQ and gross ignorance that also happen to be true believers, can you get them to actually acknowledge fact?

I'm of the opinion, that no, it cannot be done. Look at Tirob's mess of law interpretation above. A general insistence that it is a catch-all, despite many supreme court cases saying otherwise.
All other examples being too biased on your part, you can always look to SkinnnyHead and SteveB and IDW as prime examples of what it is that you're doing wrong here as well.

Some of you really are just not capable of handling rational thought, so in lieu of real discussion, we're left to entertain ourselves however we see fit.

Yes, I'm sure you've brought this up in threads many times. I'm sure it is always you who is the bastion of rationality surrounded by the insane and ignorant. If only everyone else understood your greatness and how you are only trying to help them be better people.

You're a martyr for the cause. Although martyrs usually end up suffering greatly, often with their lives. Not that I advocate something bad happening to you. In fact, I feel like I'm forced to say over and over that I don't.

omeganuepsilon: cosmiquemuffin: You guys do this to complete stranger dudes on the street?

Boys are dumber than I thought.

Some guys do that. Not all. Talk about stereotyping..

Stereotyping only wrong when done to "survivor" groups. It's all good with "perpetrator" groups. Everyone has a counter-argument for why it's not hypocritical and morally fraudulent to use equality to argue for inequality. But few know the real reason. Which is that those who control who is in which group control the whole of society.

Dansker: She looks kinda average and ordinary to me.

Fat, desperate, and pretentious, is no way to go through life, old gal.

WhippingBoy: The Short Bald Guy from Benny Hill: We get it, women are making shiat up, this stuff almost never happens.

Kind of sucks when people trivialize what, to you, are real problems, doesn't it?

Yes, I admit it, men are the real victims of sexual harassment. If only I were born a woman.

dopekitty74: As a woman with woman friends, I can confidently say that not one of us lives in fear every day of being raped. And the funny thing is, the girls I hang out with, like me, have lots of male friends, who joke around and say sexual things and we don't get all offended about it. If we're in public and some douche yells out "Hey baby, why don't you suck my dick?" we either ignore them or laugh derisively and make comments about what a prick he is. We don't get all victimy like half the women in this thread seem to think is the thing to do.

Unpossible. I've just been told that moronic unwanted comments from men are indicators of imminent rape. According to the perpetually offended commenters in this thread, you don't exist.

OK, which one of you jokers put a computer in the kitchen? Hopefully you know better now.

Millennium: There are ways to fight someone stronger than you; make no mistake about that. But if you don't have the training, it's best not to try fighting: get the drop on him, disable him quickly in the ways everyone knows, and then get the fark out. That's much more likely to get you out alive than trying to make a stand when you can't win.

If a man attempts to assault a woman she should just hitch her skirt up and pull his pants down.

/I'll bet you 10 bucks she'll run faster.

TL;DR/
Men are slime and women are hateful creatures.

tirob: One obscene gesture can suffice.

Only if it is a disruption or as the name of the situation is used, a disturbance is caused. One single person, even a few does not constitute a disturbance unless they are all that is present. You've got to upset the public at large for it to count as a public disturbance. It's meant to keep the peace in places of large numbers and limit people who are disruptive to large groups, not pamper an offended individual.

Pincy: I agree that women should probably just ignore them. I think that other men should be the one's to tell them to shut the hell up.

And that's not sexist at all!
/sarcasm

clowncar on fire: 4seasons85!: The Short Bald Guy from Benny Hill: 4seasons85!: I'm a woman and I've never been harrassed.

/Not sure if that's a good thing.

//I'll go cry by myself now...

As a man I've never been sexually harassed and I consider that a good thing. Is it different for women?

I'm not sure. I was implying that I may not be pretty enough to be harassed. I was joking. But since it wasn't that funny Im not mad you didn't pick up on it. I promise to do better next time.

/but I can make sandwiches, does that count?

We'll need pics to verify your lack of "prettiness". For all we know- you could be a hot red head oozing of sexuality and trying to play the "not pretty pity point" card.

Prolly not the best time to be trawling for women, amiright?

4seasons85!: The Short Bald Guy from Benny Hill: 4seasons85!: I'm a woman and I've never been harrassed.

/Not sure if that's a good thing.

//I'll go cry by myself now...

As a man I've never been sexually harassed and I consider that a good thing. Is it different for women?

I'm not sure. I was implying that I may not be pretty enough to be harassed. I was joking. But since it wasn't that funny Im not mad you didn't pick up on it. I promise to do better next time.

/but I can make sandwiches, does that count?

We'll need pics to verify your lack of "prettiness". For all we know- you could be a hot red head oozing of sexuality and trying to play the "not pretty pity point" card.

One Bad Apple: 4seasons85!: I'm a woman and I've never been harrassed.

/Not sure if that's a good thing.



How YOU doin'


There, welcome to the club.

/OMG! Men!! How rude!

//*smirk*

I guess the gender-reversed issue would be this:

Imagine that women think it's funny to hit strange men in the nuts if they're not paying attention when they walk by. The woman's girlfriends giggle when she does it, the men glare after they've been hit and shuffle off.

The men try to explain to women that it HURTS when women hit them in the nuts. The women explain that guys are asking for it when they're walking without holding an object or their hands in front of their crotches when they're walking down the street.

Men say they're NOT ASKING FOR IT just because they're swinging their arms at their sides as they walk down the street, and women say, hey, you'll get the right to stop getting hit in the nuts when you stop getting paid 25% more than women and stop discriminating against women when considering management positions.

onyxruby: gilgigamesh: t may be regional. I live in the South. There's a certain gentility factor: women who work in my office have the door held open for them, men wait for them to exit the elevator before exiting themselves, that sort of thing

When I was about 22 or so I held the door open for a woman with a large armful of binders (10 inch stack). I walked on and she called out demanding that I stop. I was chewed as she explained that she had 'two perfectly good working arms' and started chewing me out in the hallway in front of everyone as she busily declared I was a sexist pig.

I was working for very well known company in their headquarters building, my office happened to be right near human resources. Turned out she worked in human resources and she decided to go full bore feminazi on me.

I was formally written up for sexual harassment, I was forced to go to sensitivity training where I was taught that as a white male that I am inherently evil. I was told that if there was ever another incident I would be fired. My career in that corporation was ruined, all for a woman that I never talked to, touched, or even gawked at. Literally all I did, all I was accused of doing, was holding the door open for her.

For years after that I refused to hold the door open for anyone woman at work, letting it shut behind me without care. Now I know better, but when your young your easy prey for someone like that.

Well, the important thing is that you have a good reason to act like an asshole. fark it. Good luck in life, you god damned idiots. I don't have the energy to explain your moronic behavior and feelings to you any more. At least I can be comforted that you are likely to die of thirst in the basement when you forget how to walk up stairs.

stiletto_the_wise: WordyGrrl: It doesn't have to be a genuine threat. It just needs to be perceived by the victim as a threat.

Huh? So a threat is a threat. And if it's not a threat, but someone thinks it's a threat--it's a threat?

I'm sure someone, somewhere, thinks my green baseball cap is threatening. This apparently makes me a threatening threat.


Well, I do admit, that I find people who evidence idiocy, in the way you have, threatening, and if the green hat fits... Who knows? The kind of person who could post your comment might try soaking their hair in gasoline to loosen up the chunk of gum that got stuck in it.

Seriously. You come off as a moron. Try to think about things before you post.

// If you're drunk, I understand.

Dansker
And what the fark is wrong with yoga?


It's probably too dangerous in case you're a crazy cat lady.



Otherwise, everybody seems to be enjoying it:

THE GREAT NAME:
I would advise any atheist to stay away from churches and mosques. But if that atheist rejects my advice, he's still entitled to sit there and have a drink without being preeched to in a pious manner.

I want to visit your mosque. Is it an open bar, or BYOB?

A woman who makes the entire world responsible for her comfort? Shocking.

lordjupiter: Why is it OK for you to extrapolate from specific experiences of individuals to general statements about groups, but it's not OK for men to do it?

Show me the statistics that show that men are anywhere close to women in being sexually harassed and then we'll talk.

Why is my beauty such a curse?

So many crosses, and I'm fresh out of nails.

Pincy: THE GREAT NAME: TheFark5000: Wow. The amount of sexism and "what about the few men this happens to!" in the first page alone already makes me want to vomit. The world is such a mean place to all you fragile, sad, pathetic men of Fark.

If somebody raped you, I would not shed a tear.

You don't say? That sentiment goes against everything else you've posted in this thread. I don't know how I read you so wrong.

Yeah, and you support false rape accusations. And your wife boils bunnies.

The My Little Pony Killer: THE GREAT NAME: A successful false rape accusation is just as bad as a rape and so the fear is just as legitimate.

Hahahaha no. Try again, with a little less butthurt this time.

That is a thoughtful response, and one that is sure to mark you as the thinker in the thread.

rolls eyes

There must be some real doozies in this thread- my ignore filter has blocked out almost half the comments. Am I missing anything?

Lernaeus: Settle in, men; misandry is here to stay for a while.

For at least the next several generations there will be some women who want to make up for thousands of years of real (but mostly imagined) male oppression. Most will just be pissed off temporarily, and probably justifiably so, but a few will be sincere, maniacal (sorry, 'womaniacal') outrage queens with political influence.

Rubbish. Those women aren't punishing men for what men did in the past. They're punishing men because they are ugly, right now.

THE GREAT NAME: A successful false rape accusation is just as bad as a rape and so the fear is just as legitimate.

Hahahaha no. Try again, with a little less butthurt this time.

THE GREAT NAME: TheFark5000: Wow. The amount of sexism and "what about the few men this happens to!" in the first page alone already makes me want to vomit. The world is such a mean place to all you fragile, sad, pathetic men of Fark.

If somebody raped you, I would not shed a tear.

You don't say? That sentiment goes against everything else you've posted in this thread. I don't know how I read you so wrong.

angela_mna: I have been on Fark for almost 6 years now, and although I don't comment on things, I'm on here daily, reading articles and comments.

After reading the comments in this article, I'm done with this site.

I can't believe I was a (very small) part of this community.

I am disgusted, to the point of being physically sickened, by the majority of comments on this article.

For those of you who still have the stomach to stay and stand up for what's right against these 'people', thank you, but I just can't anymore.

Well, bye.

WhippingBoy: TheFark5000: Wow. The amount of sexism and "what about the few men this happens to!" in the first page alone already makes me want to vomit. The world is such a mean place to all you fragile, sad, pathetic men of Fark.

That's right. Men have no issues or problems of their own, and should feel ashamed for suggesting that they do. The life of every man is filled with constant wine (I mean "whine" - amirite??) and roses.

Don't be (pretend to) be stupid. No one is saying guys don't have problems. But you have to wonder why a thread about a woman trying to get men to see things from her point of view devolves into an instant wail-fest about the shiat men have to deal with, as if placing it on a scale will somehow erase the point this woman was making about her own experience.

I thought that as a lazy Saturday morning thread, we'd have more a focus on taco's and magic buttons and a lot less straight out misogyny. Guess a lot of frustrated dudes are posting today.

Besides, you're out at a bar and you happened across a pair of lovely birds carrying on about what type of meat they wish to stuff in their tocos- this is truly the fodder of comic legend that any guy with a sense of humor would be obligated to not chip in and comment on.

"Let me get this right- she was lying there on the couch, partially nude and begging for it and you did what again? Thanked her for the coffee and politely left?!" Yeah. Like one of those type of situations.

A female acquaintance of mine wanted me to take her out to a local gay bar. When I asked why, she said, "So you can see what it's like being flirted with by people you don't want to have sex with."

I replied, "How about I *not* go to the gay bar, so I don't give any of the guys the impression that I'm looking for a one night stand."

/she never spoke to me again
//and died at the hands of her abusive boyfriend a year ago

ITT: A whole bunch of Farkers I thought were cool turn out to be troglodytes.
Screw this. It's saturday. I'm gonna get drunk and not shout at random women.

As long as those same "creeper" guys are the ones more likely to get rewarded with sex, it is going to be harder for "nice guys" to empathize with your problem.

All men are rapists, all women are whores, let's all be robots, the robolution comes!

Lenny_da_Hog: Instead of writing a blog, why doesn't she turn to the rude people and say, "You're rude and never going to meet anyone worthwhile that way."

You haven't been paying attention.

Face to face confrontation is not socially acceptable these days. All confrontation must occur with a computing device in between the opposing parties.

It's a law or something.

In one of the authors other pieces, she admits to being a fatty...
http://www.rolereboot.org/life/details/2012-08-can-i-have-fat-pride-w i thout-throwing-thin-women-und

Hate to break it to you and your "curves," but I'm pretty sure the cat-calls were for the girl walking with you...

I never in my life have given unwanted attention to a woman wether she was attractive or not. If I see men do it in my prescence I call them out as the bullies that they are because I am big enough to stand up to them, hate bullies in all forms and in fact take pleasure in publicly humiliating them, and find this bad behaviour by some men makes it much harder for a nice, well mannered person like myself to approach women either irl or on a dating site.

That being said, this article is pretty much full of misandry and was written solely for feminist man-haters like the disgusting examples we have heard barking in this thread. Ladies, you are making things worse for yourselves by saying stupid things like "you're a man and therefore you cannot understand". You really can't tell another human being they are incapable of insight or empathy due to gender, you are the one incapable of empathy at this point but maybe if you question yourself on occasion instead of narcissitically knowing you are always right you may become wiser.

Short guy explaining how you don't have short man syndrome and then bragging about how many tall guys' wives you've slept with... you have short man syndrome. I'm sorry you feel the way you do but the problem isn't related to size, it's related to perception. You are no less a man than me because you are shorter than me but if other people try and make you feel thusly they are bullies and you should give them a good hard knee in the groin.

Lenny_da_Hog: Instead of writing a blog, why doesn't she turn to the rude people and say, "You're rude and never going to meet anyone worthwhile that way."

because they are drunk, high or teenagers?

All property is theft, all sex is rape, all commerce is oppression. And other overwrought and painstakingly delineated college theses that stack up to f*ck all in the real world. Did we really come up with brave and empowering new world when we decided that being ladies and gentlemen was "old hat". That old hat was a pretty useful ledge in our climb out of the social primordial goo, y'all. And so far, we haven't exactly been farting rainbows on each other by declaring it irrelevant.

But I ain't complaining I have always had good looking girlfriends, have a hot wife, and banged a lot of tall guys old ladies.

Oh no, it looks like you omitted a punctuation mark.
It should be "banged a lot of tall guys, old ladies." or "banged a lot of tall guys and old ladies."

FEMALE LIFE PLAN:
0-15 force men to give you attention by getting in their faces
15-30 complain about too much attention from men
30-100 force men to give you attention by getting in their faces

Who lit the fuse on her tampon?

this is why men dont respect you


/not saying its right,

The "just wait 20 years from now when no one will look at you" comments here seem to be made with a fair amount of indignance and hurt feelings. I get the impression that anyone who would say that has been the man catcalling some woman on the street and doesn't like that anyone would view this behavior negatively, and/or has felt pretty burned in the past/present when any of their attentions (regardless of politeness level) have been rebuffed because they weren't attractive enough to the other person.

Just a thought.

Oblio13: I've made a list of things Angry Feminists like about men:

Who are "Angry Feminists" other then a strawman you've summoned forth to excuse your shiatty attitudes?

Oh look at me I'm a poor oppressed man, curse my every advantage.

I would like to ask all the mouth-breathers who got from this article "I'm so pretty guys won't leave me alone" whether they're admitting to not reading the article, or whether they're admitting to being functionally illiterate. It has to be one of those two things.

Sexual harrassment is the wrong man noticing your tits.

Also published as "A Morning's Stroll In Italy".

Chick needs to get laid . . . big time.

Woah... Someone has a lot of sand in their vagina.

"Where's my magic button?" First, take off your panties.