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Women Should Just Be Honest (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by cladistii@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The thing is, I don’t blame women for valid self protective instincts.

I don't think labeling men hypocrites counts as a "self protective" act.

I feel like you and many others feel like my issue is simply that panel 3 is there at all, and that I'm indignant about the notion of men reacting poorly to rejection. But that's not my issue at all. I explain below.

Ghosting is antisocial bullshit, but it’s the easiest solution available to a potential for real, serious harm, especially when you are only one of some dozen guys one woman might be dealing with on the subject.

You're misinterpreting the core of my distaste with the comic.

All the comic had to do to not be shitty in the way I'm criticizing it for, is have the men in panels 1 and 3 not be the same person. That's all. Then I could at least understand a message like what you describe: 'this is a shitty thing to do in a vacuum, but I feel like I have to do it, to not risk an unpleasant reaction'. But by nonsensically making it the same guy, when it's basically never the same guy doing both things (do you really think men who have those kinds of outbursts when they're rejected, are the ones wishing women would reject them overtly? Think about it), the author is shitting on decent guys who have a reasonable desire to not be ghosted, which is not mutually exclusive with understanding why women do it.

Does that make sense?

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

I don't think labeling men hypocrites counts as a "self protective" act.

It didn't do that. There is but one man in this comic. This comic isn't making a statement about something that all men do, it's making a statement about something that all women experience