Are you repelling men? Read this!

I actually had the creepy delivery driver thing the other day - I was annoyed (white goods delivery, was a week late, and I still had to plumb it in before I could use it, and we really needed it!), sweaty, in cleaning the house clothes, short and dumpy, over 40, and still he kept asking if that was my name on the delivery (lesson learned. Use fake name for delivery) and if he could friend me on face book.

Thank Christ I had him leave it downstairs in the block of flats and took it up to my flat myself. Trying to get him to leave the flat would have been awful.

Sethis. At first I had some sympathy for you, but it ran out when you made your own list.

Dearie, no one cares about what turns you on or off. It's pretty entitled to think they would, astonishingly that you feel it's appropriate to come into the feminist board and essentially edit the list to make it all about you as if you speak for all men anyway.

What is being discussed on this board - by the women at least - is that we feel aggrieved by the assumption that women should care about and define themselves by what men think of their physical appearance. We all have better things to do.

You have missed the point of this thread entirely.

What I want to know is if the man repellent comes with a money back guarantee? The presence of our new friend would tend to indicate that a refund is in order.

Replaces eyebrow pencil with sharpie just in case I come across Sethis IRL

We're far too busy ogling your yoga pants and tank top

Beautiful words.

I wish I would start repelling men. At 45 years old, I really did think I would have aged out of street harrassment by now. I haven't.

Thanks Orlaith
Indeed it is.

Wrath is this what you were looking for ?

Sethis, what would repel you?

Stupidity, mostly.
Manipulation and deception.
Supporting Brexit

Physically though:

Completely untended body hair. I trim too, it's not hard to run some scissors over it every month or so, that's all we need to do.

Horrible teeth or unfortunate facial moles. Like, whoppers.

Ludicrous quantities of makeup and unreal eyebrows. Just messing with yourself to a ridiculous degree in general. Women are generally beautiful all by themselves. If you want to chuck a little bit of something on to bring out the best in yourself, then go for it, but your face shouldn't be something you construct, imo.

That's pretty much it, I think. We're far less bothered by this stuff than beauty mags make us out to be. I wonder why...?

Sethis, what would repel you?

Just so I know.

A good douse of this does the job without the effort.

I thought we were all here to mock the article?
Yeah I think so, it's a crap article anyway, just an amalgamation of various paid for surveys conducted by firms trying to sell stuff. No wonder nobody out their name to it.
Ironically it's probably another example of women policing other women's looks.

Can't find the picture, so all I can say is...
Behold.

Apropos of nothing, once again, I find myself pondering my belief that Kleenex will never go out of business.

@0rlaith

I thought we were all here to mock the article? I can't help feeling a bit of hostility from you, which seems a little unprovoked from my perspective.

That's what I thought it was... I'm open to being completely wrong. I have long hair myself, but my options as a man are low ponytail, free, or Samurai bunch for when I want to be super creative on special occasions. Manbuns make me snigger. I'm sure someone could be along shortly to enlighten me?

Gosh it’s so great that you came along here Sethis to enlighten us.

I don't know, mate. You said it. Impressive knowledge of women's hair lingo though.

It's where you swoosh it round in a circle, stick it on top of your head, and wrap a bobble round it, right? Or is that something else?

WTF is a 10 second high bun?

Does my not knowing what that is make me supercalifragilisticexpialidociously good at repelling men? I do fucking hope so.

I thought I generally was repellent to men, being on the wrong side of 35 and generally dumpy, wrongly proportioned and not partaking of any kind of regimes.

Still found myself one Sunday morning looking at the erect penis of an ex co-worker many years my junior and also in a relationship, winder8ng if he could come round

@Doobigetta

I came to the feminism board because I was browsing the "Active" threads and this one came up. I clicked on the article and read it. It sounds like what a random woman thinks men think like, rather than something written by a man.

If you're going to write an article entitled "What men really think" then I feel that a good first step would be to have a collection of men write it, but maybe that's just me. Which is why I felt the need to point out the most obvious errors.

Men don't care if you wear makeup in the gym or not. We're far too busy ogling your yoga pants and tank top.

Men absolutely and completely do not think about dry cleaning bills when confronted with a woman with rich dark lipstick. We're too busy working out ways to sleep with you.

Men don't have strong feelings one way or the other about your hair, we can't tell the difference between a 10 second high bun and a 2 hour salon job most of the time. However if it looks unusual to how it does normally we feel obligated to tell you that we've noticed the change. So long as you haven't shaved half of it off, we love you anyway.

That's pretty much it. Nobody likes crap tan or bad teeth, so those are all good.

You know those times when you pass a shop window, and wonder, who is that
dowdy, unkempt woman looking back?

I have been practising that look.
I'm very good at it

Pencils
Hahaha
Very droll
I repel men, quite proud of it really.
(Apart from Mr Klop, obvs)

God I hope so.

Sethis, did you come to the Feminism board to tell us what men really think looks pretty?