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[–][deleted] 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is really sad, while also infuriating (on behalf of our gay bros).

Her experience is what women who are into men go through until we learn about boundaries and to stand up for our own needs. We all deserve respect and mutual pleasure and understanding, and young women and young men who are growing up have a tough time sorting that shit out together. Her lack of a backbone is acting as a beacon signal for harm and being taken advantage of.

She's deluded herself into thinking that her "ships" of gay bros will magically change her experience with men, but it doesn't. Gay boys and men still have to learn their own way with each other, and gay men don't exist to validate women's emotional damage and needs.

She's not meeting gay dudes. She's meeting bi or straight dudes who are predators and taking advantage of a desperate woman. And she doesn't even realize it. She's blaming gay men even though they aren't the problem(s) at all.

[–]SerpensInferna 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Can I just say, that those who aren't predators, vastly underestimate the absolute accuracy of the radar of predators. They can smell the vulnerable from miles away.

[–]tu_jode_mucho 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is absolutely true. I have a friend who has had a lot of fucked up things happen to her and literally every time I'm with her in public creepy men constantly come out of the woodwork and beeline to her. Sometimes I have no idea where these guys even came from. I have another friend that is an absolute bombshell, like a super model but not super skinny (it's quite a shame she's straight tbh). As far as I know she doesn't have a sexually traumatic past and men approach her a lot but not nearly as aggressively and frequently as friend #1. Predators can smell weakness a mile away and hardly ever pass up an opportunity to pounce.