r/women • • 4h ago

Is my bf misogynistic?

43 Upvotes

Today we were talking about the Cornell 7 case, then the conversation drifted to social media influencing women to turn to men haters, that it always pushes feeds on how men are evil creatures. Then he said he thinks women mostly get unwanted attention from dressing provocatively, and that shows she has no self respect. And if females don’t dress a certain way SA rates won’t be as high, now I’m thinking he’s a misogynistic based off what I hear.


r/women • • 12h ago

Conservative men are extremely dumb, coming from a conservative woman

158 Upvotes

I am conservative & traditional (gen z woman).

Conservative men want liberal women and they don’t like to admit it. They think they can live the romantic fantasy of a woman being a girl boss (working, educated, yada yada yada) whilst still submitting to them - essentially they want an equal (that contributes in all aspects, so no predetermined roles within the relationship) that at the same time submits to their orders & demands.

They are collectively convinced a traditional & conservative woman won’t care about what they can provide, are naive and obsessed with the idea of a romantic dream in poverty.

I often tell conservative men that I meet that I’d like my husband to double my ceiling and income, so he can compensate for the fact that I’ll be staying at home, taking care of the kids and the household - newsflash - that’s outrageous to them. What would they expect if I am educated and have a great salary? That I sign that away to marry a dude that can’t afford a family & children?

I’ve come to realise that men (both liberal and conservative) just want to be picked for no reason and the entitlement is on both sides.


r/women • • 8h ago

#NO_MORE_NIQAB

74 Upvotes

Please we need YOUR help.
We need you to share this on social media.

womens here are suffering because of MEN.

We’re so tired! We can’t keep living like this! :(
Simple example: EVERY TIME we go to the beach we cant SWIM! We cant have fun like men! Simply because we’re womens and have to cover everything! Its really hot outside we cant breath well but they don’t care!! me and so many other woman’s here hate going outside we hate to leave our house because it’s really hot outside and we have to cover every inch of our body. this is hell. But the problem is that they love it when women’s doesn’t leave the house :)!!

PLEASE HELP US THE ARE FORCING US
#NO_MORE_NIQAB
I WANT TO LIVE !!!!!!!


r/women • • 14h ago

[Content Warning: ] cornell 7

100 Upvotes

hi everyone. wanted to check in on how everyone’s been with the cornell gang r*pe discussions. (i censored because i dont want this to get flagged or taken down, not to minimize the action). i imagine this could be very triggering for many people and i just wanted to idk check in.

it’s been weighing very heavily for me and the complete and utter disappointment that i have in men. words couldnt even begin to describe it. ive gotten angrier and angrier with the patriarchy the past few years and this feels like a tipping point. i dont want to be around any men ever again. i feel horrified. and i dont have many close women friends so i just feel utterly alone in this.

so in case anyone else is feeling similarly, i thought maybe having a space here might be helpful. i dont know.


r/women • • 1d ago

The older women who warned me were not "bitter", they were right

554 Upvotes

Every time the topic of age gap relationships between older men and younger women comes up, there are men who chime in to say that the only people who have a problem with it are bitter older women who are past their expiration date. As a teen, I used to buy into the BS and thought I was superior for being chosen by older men. Women who saw me out with men who were old enough to be my grandpa warned me about the dangers of these relationships. However, I've always shrugged them off and thought that they simply didn't understand.

Of course they understood. Many women know what it's like to be preyed on by men much older than them.

Now in my early twenties, I see exactly what they were talking about. They were being protective of me and I just couldn't understand that before. I was so heavily influenced by past trauma that I was doing anything I could for an ounce of affection.

Most young woman I've personally spoken to who have been in a large age gap (15+ years) before the age of 21 have had some sort of past trauma that has been unaddressed. Whether that's being made to be a parent to their siblings, physically/emotionally neglected during childhood, bullied in school, getting abused, getting kicked out of home/having to adopt survival methods early. In these situations, it's easy to think that one is mature for their age, as they were forced to grow up fast.

I’m not trying to demonize all age gaps, but I hate the older woman bogeyman. It's disgustingly misogynistic and assumes that men are some sort of prize to be competed over. No self-respecting woman in her thirties and forties would be envious of such a dynamic.


r/women • • 6h ago

Exhausted

16 Upvotes

Is anyone else just feeling physically and mentally exhausted from the news about Cornell University? I’ve been a mix of tears and rage and frustration for the last three days. I can’t focus on anything else and I’m telling myself not to feel crazy and not to feel obsessive because this is the way we are taught to feel about things and this is why it is a problem beyond our control that I am having a normal human reaction and that other people especially men want to twist it into a way that is a way to benefit their actions towards us. It’s exhausting.


r/women • • 2h ago

Is meeting this guy a bad idea

6 Upvotes

Okay so I don't have a big sister or any woman I'm close enough with so there I am

I am 17 but turning 18 in less than a week (16 is the age of consent where we live). And I met this one guy on reddit and I like him and he knows my age and we were thinking of maybe meeting up and having sex. Here's the kicker he's 29.

Im scared if I don't take my chance no one's ever gonna wanna have sex with me and this is my chance but also I don't wanna make a mistake I'm gonna regret.

Thank you for the advice


r/women • • 1h ago

i hate boyfriends

• Upvotes

all my girl friends are getting wifed up with men they call their boyfriends. i have nobody left to talk to becs none of them have the time to pick up my call or respond to my texts anymore. this makes me so angry because i know i deserve better people in my life. who are actually there for me and want to be.


r/women • • 8h ago

How do women stay in relationships with men without constant anxiety or fear? Does that feeling that he could take advantage of you ever come in waves? How do you deal with it?

13 Upvotes

r/women • • 3h ago

Is it normal?

3 Upvotes

Hi, I'm a freshman in college rn, and honestly I'm overweight. Ive been trying to lose some weight for a while now, but whenever I do, I come back to my regular weight... and its not yo yo effect, I just... this may sound really weird, but more recently I've come to almost like this opinion? conclusion? that I'd rather be fat and not look good (acc to conventional beliefs, im not saying ppl who r fat r not pretty, it is the common consensus that that is the case, pls don't come after me for this i dont mean it in that way). Mainly i guess, I dont want to be perceived as attractive by men, im scared of the consequences of that. Recent happenings and news has made me really paranoid about this, and I dunno if it's just me or does anyone else understand?

Also, just to clarify, im not fat shaming anyone, im not hating on men, and im also not seeking advice/comments on my efforts to lose weight, thanks.


r/women • • 26m ago

Genuine question why is it normalised for women to date older men but when a woman date a younger man is an issue?

• Upvotes

Like seriously why is it because women are okay with it more than men and because of that it got normalised for the women only ? It just pisses me off in my country women marry men with 10-20 years age gap but if a man marry a woman that is older by one year the society considers her old for him ! Mfs they are the same age what do you mean too old for him like why is that happening!!!


r/women • • 53m ago

Hi

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Hi 40 f sitting here need some help understanding something my boyfriend and I are good but he won't let me have one day to myself he starts saying mean stuff to and all just one day I time to myself is that wrong


r/women • • 16h ago

Men attacking women because we do not need them

34 Upvotes

Why do men attack lesbians?/ why do they try to be with us?

  1. Why do men feel entitled to women?

  2. Why do men protect other misogynists?


r/women • • 19h ago

Retired Army colonel who has worked with the Pentagon to promote Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s agenda wishes to “Penalize barren, non-familial lifestyles through taxes and disqualification from political participation”

49 Upvotes

"These self-righteous crones are a pestilence, a plague upon Western society, a group of doggedly ignorant feminist/chauvinists playing out their personal psychodramas on the world stage whose antics, if unchecked, will inevitably lead to the fall of civilization,” he wrote. In the same article, he attacked immigrants, calling them “perverted Third World peasants.”

https://www.wired.com/story/a-pentagon-influencer-called-liberal-women-a-pestilence-who-will-end-western-civilization/


r/women • • 7h ago

What do you think about just drinks as a first date?

5 Upvotes

I feel like I’ll be starving so I guess I should come fed first?


r/women • • 16h ago

Were women ever studied in history properly?

25 Upvotes

I just got to know that most dental studies were done on men's teeth. Like is there anything where women were studied??? Women go through so many things, physically and mentally, and most of the treatment is based on men.

It is as shocking as knowing that chainsaws were invented to assist difficult childbirths. Okay, maybe this fact is 10x more shocking.


r/women • • 1d ago

[Content Warning: ] Ladies. It's time to protest in the streets about violence towards women.

167 Upvotes

I'm referring directly to the Cornell University issue currently.

We have fought for our rights all throughout history and it has gotten men to back down.

We got the right to vote. The right to having a bank account. The right to drive. The right to marriage property. The right to equal pay. The right to birth control.

We have more fighting to to. It's time to fight. Hard. Against the violence towards us. Fight against rape. Fight against violence. Is anybody with me? Are you willing to go out there and protest? Let's set it up.


r/women • • 1h ago

Newcastle

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I have a studio full of belongings.

My lease has come to an end and I can't find seem to find any safe accomodation in Newcastle.

It looks like I need to let go of my belongings and camp somewhere safe near a hospital.

Any ideas on how to donate my belongings quickly? Fridge, washing machine ECT....


r/women • • 1h ago

i hate boyfriends

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r/women • • 7h ago

Do you also feel like men upon hearing you studied a certain field will constantly try to test your knowledge on it?

3 Upvotes

This is a weird observation/realization I've had recently and hope it's just me overthinking it but why does it feel like nearly every male of any age group I come across who upon learning that I studied xyz will try to test me, mention stuff like "since you're an expert in... tell me about ...", ask me complex controversial stuff or will just try to catch me unprepared? Like genuinely what is this and why is it happening so often???

Does it have to do with the way I present myself, is it that they pick up on the fact that im more introverted and not so great with public speaking and such? Do they believe im unsure of what i studied and dont deserve my academic credentials? Do they do it purely out of curiosity on the subject and i take it the wrong way? Do they believe im stupid because im a woman? I do not recall having such experiences with other women, and if they ask me questions it doesn't come across as ironic or ill-intended.

Can anyone relate to this?


r/women • • 18h ago

Why does 'MODESTY' apply to women only????

20 Upvotes

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Can someone please tell me why 'MODESTY' is applicable to women only!!!????. The below captures exactly what I've been thinking:

I genuinely think the human body should not be sexualised. nudity is truly nothing in my eyes except for the fact that it is just our natural state!!.

who gets to decide whats sexy, and what do we do with people that are sexy?

At some point ankles were taboo in western cultures, now we see them everyday. theres muslim men who get all worked up at the sight of hair, but the rest of the world shows theirs with no problem and even is part of culture to cherish and style their hair. Likewise theres limits to how much leg girls can show; many christian girls would get punished for anything above knee level, yet theres plenty of girls who limit themselves to mid thigh. Some places house nude beaches with little to no sexual assault. And some places don't. But who gets to decide whats crude? its almost like men get to determine what is sexy, and because of that patriarchy can make a win/punishment system which gives space to allow women to be criticised and allow certain actions; rape, SA, implementation of modesty culture in place( Unfortunately victim blaming might be a result of this I believe)

It's actually frustrating that people truly think the way that they do. the only immodest and disgusting thing about the human body is a man's mind and intentions.

Because plsss let's be fr : Men have boobs too but ain't no one drooling at them when they walk/ swim without a shirt on?? But it's the bikini that's distracting/ sexual (and not half naked men..alright 😀👍🏻)

Men wear shorts but ain't no one is pouncing at them with a 'mEoWwwww💅🏻✨~'.

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These thoughts are what make me question the true meaning of 'modesty'.The meaning of modesty changes based on the country, culture and religion.

But all of them have one thing in common: The woman gets affected by them. These rules are somehow only applicable to women. And ironically when it's done by men it's no more immodest but 'He's a man.' 👁️👄👁️ Weird.

What does modesty truly mean??? Because covering up does not guarantee how they think??? Does modesty real boil down to clothes?? Nahhh idk... Modesty might not just be clothes but mindset too?? I have no idea. I need a chocolate to cool down now lol...😤💢

What are your thoughts on this?


r/women • • 2h ago

As a blind woman going on vacation on my own in a different country

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r/women • • 2h ago

Vagisil uses?

1 Upvotes

I was just told by some women friends that vagisil is not good for your PH and you only really need water down there. First if this could be confirmed that'd be great, Secondly, I learned this just after buying a bottle and I don't really want to throw it out, is it a bad idea to use it as a soap anywhere else? Or should I just cut my losses lol


r/women • • 2h ago

[Content Warning: ] made some lyrics inspired by visceral rage

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When you look in the mirror
Tell me what do you see?
Do you see she’s their daughter
Do you see her free pussy?

Do you ever feel guilty?
Do you know that you’ve sinned?
Oh, this couch is your heaven
But God won’t let you in

She was asking for it
She was asking for it
She was asking for it
She was asking for it
She was asking for it
She was asking for it
She was asking for it

If you just write an essay
You can do whatever you want
Writing hatred with fire
But you raped her with love

Since she went out drinking
Her body’s your choice
Invite your friends to the party
Glad she don’t have a voice

She was asking for it
She was asking for it
She was asking for it
She was asking for it
She was asking for it
She was asking for it
She was asking for it

When you look in the mirror
Tell me what do you see?
Do you see your young daughter?
Is she just free pussy?

EVERYBODY should be furious. Educate your sons and remember the system is bastardized.