ultimately this comes down to insecurity, boundaries, and attitude towards personal responsibility; do you want people to default to protecting you or treating you like an equal? either one is fine but mb be honest with yourself about which it is you're really going for
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RT @telmudic
I hate when I have to mansplain to women about how mansplaining is the default mode of male-male interaction. We have dinners with each other to explain s…
https://twitter.com/telmudic/status/1472706018660339715
I struggled with this for years, tryna understand why women were upset when I did exactly what they claimed to want
what many women actually want is to be treated like children; protected and coddled, playfully condescended to
this mismatch causes issues
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RT @pee_zombie
major fucking facts
me: "why are all these girls mad that I'm treating them like men & holding them to the same intellectual standard idgi"
me years later: "I see…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1364024336487768072
