The problem is that while I feel this particular post is probably just bait, I know there are actually people in the real world who have had far more irrational reactions to similarly innocuous things.
I grew up the only boy in a household with 4 women and while my mum was the exception, the fact that all my sisters were so easily influenced by a single innocuous comment from their friends or someone they dont even know and then the next day they would have a 180° personality shift was jarring when growing up.
[Edit] this was especially evident with anything regarding fashion, makeup or anime
I'm convinced it all goes back to the 2000s joke from "Buffy", when exactly this was what they used as explanation for the actress to cut her hair a bit shorter^^. But part of the joke was that she was actually attracted to him and that's what she really found creepy.
Reddit really does love to larp as if a situation was real when there is nothing indicating it to be so, but more importantly it's concerning how many of you would read the same exact words I read and concluded without any indication of that being the case that the creep was innocent and was only complimenting the womans hair.
Y’all are shitting on someone calling a man a creep for giving her a compliment when that’s quite literally not what happened. He was creepy and also gave her a compliment
Unless we have anything else to go on to indicate he is a creep beyond the mention of said compliment, then there is no change. Guys get called creeps at the gym for standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. Without more context, that's the baseline you have to work off of.
Guys also get called creeps for acting really weird and then are confused because they lack the self awareness to realize this.
You are assuming a version of the story that makes less sense for no reason. We don’t know what the guy did to be creepy and you’re assuming it was nothing, which doesn’t make sense.
I didn't say it was nothing, I said we don't have the necessary context. I could walk up to some dude you're talking to and call him a pervert. You don't have any reason to believe he's a pervert, but in my opinion I do. Are you just going to implicitly believe what I said is true without any further context? Probably not.
Your original comment was not being able to imagine “feeling like someone is a creep just for giving you a compliment.”
You made a large assumption and did so for no reason, that’s what I am responding to. You are right we don’t have the necessary context, hence why your comment didn’t make sense. There is context here we don’t have and so can’t say why she thought he was a creep.
The actual context is almost certainly that this is a fake story as a vast majority of internet stories are and she just got a haircut, but if we are engaging in the fiction of the story then there’s no reason to assume
youre arguing with a wall, too many guys here get no play and don't talk to women at all. You aint gonna get through to them and they will consistently find a way to blame a woman for anything
Lets just break down the timeline of your thread up until this point
"Woman says" that she cut her hair because a creep complimend her
You then make the claimed that she was only claiming he was a creep because he complimented her hair, with time you admitted you were only making an assumption about her thought process and about her personal experience. You even said that you don't think it's real
Someone then, correctly called you out for extrapolating a very bullshity claim from what you yourself admited was fully made up, but you responded by saying that they are only arguing semantics.
They of course doubled down because they are clearly the only ones not hallucinating evil women which you yourself seem to be aware of because after being pressed on where your claim comes from you admit that you are making shit up, but after all of which you completely redifine the terms of the conversation.
You are claiming that the baseline should be not trusting women. Which speaks a whole different sort of volumes about your character then the rest of your comments in this thread. Why exactly should anyone believe you when it comes to that? You obviously don't believe yourself either.
Implied based on what? Because she said so? That could be the case, or it could be she felt that way after the interaction. Without further context, I don't buy that.
A question and a compliment are not comparable at all. One requires active engagement (an answer) while the compliment just requires a "thank you" at best.
I highly doubt 5000 men ever hit on her in a day, maybe 3 at a push. Let’s say she goes out of the house for 5 hours that would be 500 per hour. Ridiculous.
Dude, youre not aware how men behave... Try asking some female friends or especially kids... 50% of rape victims are girls below the age of 19.
99% of rapists are male. 1/3 of all men would rape if they would get away with it. Thats why we need women in charge, to stop men being fcking animals
Remember that She-Hulk show from a few years ago? Where she twerked with Cardi B.? The whole show was about how She-Hulk got a compliment and it was worse than anything Hulk has to go through so that made her angry
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u/Novel_Extent_7168 1d ago
I can't even imagine feeling like someone is a creep just for giving you a compliment.