Fucking Men !

[CremeFresh]

I feel so depressed, what is it with men ? I've had to employ a builder, he came round to my house , gave me a quote , I agreed to the price , so far so good. He sent one of his men round who did the work, he came back to inspect it and collect the money. We got chatting about a project he is doing that I could possibly help him with , I made him a coffee and then he went.

Since then he has bombarded me with texts- 'Morning gorgeous' 'what you doing today' etc. I didn't reply and then my phone pinged again, I knew exactly what it would say and sure enough it was from him and said 'Have I upset you?' I didn't reply. He has continued to text about the project, which I now feel unable to do ( pissed off because I could really do with the money).

I had another load of texts early
Hours of this morning asking if I'm awake, fancy a chat etc.

He's married . His poor wife.

Why do men do this ?? Fucking knob.

Yes! The smug victim blaming is horrible. And the OP is likely to lose paid work.

Fucking men, indeed. Women pay for male entitlement all the time.

Why are you telling all here? Is there a point to it? Or are you indulging in some sort of Go me! behaviour?

I agree with Garud.

I also think some women who are married are not as prime a bait for the sleazy guys so when the recipients of sleaze recount it to the married women they can (sometimes) think well that never happens to me and I'm very attractive so Ms Single must be giving the building coffee in a baby doll.

And that quotation from the forum sticky was victim blaming and unnecessary. 100%

Must admit I'm surprised by the victim blaming on here sad casualties of the patriarchy. Brainwashed into thinking somewhere somehow it must be the woman's fault...

HollyBuckets respect to your sister for doing the actual research. Genius.

Why are you telling all here? Is there a point to it? Or are you indulging in some sort of Go me! behaviour? oh here we go. Unless you're posting about enjoying art (but don't dare take photographs of it!) nina2b will complain.

nina2b why are you always on at people for posting things? If it doesn't interest you, don't feel you have to read it... We won't die without your input.

"sorry who's this?" works very well for de-escalation of these types of situations.

I do feel it would have been very different had I been married, I guess he sees me as fair game, never mind that he is the married one . I feel disrespected and annoyed that ,To some, it must be my fault.

Fordtype that's a good response.