shayflower:

throw-away-opinions: the-strong-silent-typist: in-all-conscience: shayflower: You can say what you want about the 21st-century woman’s obsession with “destroying the patriarchy”, but the monsters under my bed and the fictional intruders chasing me up the stairs if I got up in the middle of the night to grab some water from the fridge have never been anything but male for as long as I can remember. I’ve never been scared of the dark, just of the men with bad intentions who hide in it. Get therapy. Projection, narcissism, persecution complex.



OP believes that their own opinions and perspective is a valid reason to generalize 49% of the population and demonize them as monsters to be slain. I think this is the first time that I’ve ever seen someone argue that the patriarchy is real because they’re afraid of boogieMEN, and not boogieWOMEN. Living in a post-parody world is fucking weird. Ahh sorry for posting this I wrote this text post late at night and didn’t actually read it back to hear how it sounded- I do not actually think all men are monsters and I am not regularly terrorized by imaginary men under the bed- I was just thinking back to when I was afraid of the dark when I was younger and was like “huh that’s weird I never imagined a female figure as scary lemme make a dramatic text post about it” and it came out sounding like I thought all real-life men were monsters, which I know to not be true. I apologize for this offensive post! This is not the reason I think the patriarchy is real. It was a stupid thing to say and super poorly worded. I read it back when I woke up the next day and realized how bad it sounded and deleted it from my blog. Again, I was stupid for posting this and am not in actuality trying to generalize the male population.

I sincerely appreciate the polite and level headed response. Really, I do. It’s incredibly refreshing and I want you to know that I’m sorry for projecting any animosity on you. Hopefully there’s no harm done either way.

And for what it’s worth, your fear isn’t exactly irrational. Everyone fears that someone bigger, more power, and more dangerous than themselves might want to do them harm. It’s a very sensible fear, in fact.

Only reason the original post caught my interest was because I have seen people make similar claims. Ridiculous generalizations that all women absolutely live in fear of all men, because all men are potential threats. That’s not misogyny, though. That’s just a basic, primitive fear of things we perceive as dangerous, but it gets misrepresented to try and add validity to silly ideological-driven claims.

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