re: #13 Anymouse 🌹

I totally agree, as a formerly awkward tomboy (well, I’m still that, lol)….I guess maybe the anger over being rejected is what I worry about more than anything. So many of these young men seem totally unwilling to look at themselves, and when they do, they seem more worried about what the guys think of them then what women do. I know there’s a lot of misogyny baked into this, but it has to come from somewhere. The internet helps reinforce this, when it could help in being a solution. But a recurring theme in these men is this sense of really awful and destructive entitlement. That just because you’re nice or show interest in a woman she’s required to do something for you. Life and relationships are messy and when they are, there seems to be this giving up and resigning to hate. That hate can fester into violence.

To be clear, I am not worried about my son going that route (we’ve already had a long talk about Nazis and finding them at metal shows, he’s smart enough to run from that shit and has in the past), with him I worry about being lonely and sad and isolated. For now at least.