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Ugh or oversensitive? Photo included

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PerverseConverse · 07/09/2018 21:44

I was just flicking through Facebook and saw this post from a friend. I'm not sure which bit offended me most but the "submissive" was possibly the winner there although so many good contenders. It was also the bit about finding a man as though we are incomplete without one. Personally I've never felt better since being without one! Happy to be told I'm being ridiculous but it's really got me thinking about how this stuff is constantly fed to society as a whole. There's probably male equivalent ones but I never see any male friends posting them.

Ugh or oversensitive? Photo included
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speakingwoman · 07/09/2018 23:21

“She knows how to take care of a man’.
In a sort of Al Pacino way?”

Only if Northern

tobee · 07/09/2018 23:28

Depressing that women might feel they should accept this bilge for themselves or any other woman .

TallulahWaitingInTheRain · 07/09/2018 23:31

There's probably male equivalent ones

I'm not sure I've ever seen a description of a man that focuses purely on his sexual capital from a female perspective

Calledyoulastnightfromglasgow · 07/09/2018 23:33

And there is a missing word in the last line. All those well chosen words and there is a fucking typo

I can imagine this woman. She has shellac nails, calls people hun and pouts for her FB selfies

Maybe this is the secret to a happy marriage

thebewilderness · 07/09/2018 23:41

It is boilerplate propaganda that used to run in magazines and newspapers quarterly ever since women got the vote. Now they put it on social media because newspapers and magazines don't have the audience they used to.
It is astonishing to look back at some of the old opting for marriage and family stories and see how little they change as they are updated for each generation of women they are trying to convince.

CertainHalfDesertedStreets · 07/09/2018 23:55

At least she can handle her own

I reckon the bloke who wrote it handled his own a bit afterwards too...

MotherForkinShirtBalls · 08/09/2018 00:17

And to top it off that she'll be "sent" a man, like she can't possibly want or be trusted to find her own way in life. Ugh.

Bloodybridget · 08/09/2018 02:42

But what about the faint line near the bottom that says IAmFedUpWithYourLiesAndCheating ?? !

Thankewe · 08/09/2018 04:06

I think the IAmFedup is the page that created the image?

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/09/2018 06:13

She's an alpha, but she knows where to draw the line and be a woman?

Is that the same as all those teen movies where boys love the girl who shoves pizza and fries in her gob because women who eat salad are soooo boring however miraculously stays a size 0. (I'm assuming bulimia or magic.)

Basically, be impossible, because being an actual fully formed human is not OK for women.

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 08/09/2018 06:34

God, that's grotesque. I find myself unable to say much more. I may have more to contribute once the nausea passes. Envy

FurryDice · 08/09/2018 06:39

I want to vomit.

Toddleoo · 08/09/2018 06:43

Ffs, that's horrendous. Hate the end where she'll be sent to some lucky man, regardless of her sexual preference then or just her preference to be in a relationship!

MinecraftHolmes · 08/09/2018 06:44

Ugh barf.

Whompthatwillow · 08/09/2018 06:45

Vomit inducing twaddle. Such harmful messages though why so people perpetuate such crap!?

RJnomore1 · 08/09/2018 06:49

Acht I submit to my husbands preferences.

Well I do when it's his turn to make dinner. He can choose what he likes.

Well as long as it's something I like too.

tillytop · 08/09/2018 06:51

It was the "knows how to take care of a man" for me too. Boak!!

Toddleoo · 08/09/2018 07:03

I fixed it for them, I don't think it's going to get many shares now though.

She's it.
She's the best of both worlds.
She can join in with your life and have her own too.
She can handle her own, only her own mind, she's not taking on your shit without agreement.

She has a soft submissive side because she happens to want to, she will however end you if necessary.

When she wants to be ambitious she will be.
When she wants to be caring she will be.
When she wants to be passionate she will be.
If she feels like being sexual she will be, she may not as she has enough else going on in her life and contraception can be major ishoos so don't go expecting anything.
When she wants to eat a McDonald's and belch she will do.
If she wants to be spiritual she will be, if her idea of spiritual is binge watching Supernatural she will do.

She understands the definition of unconditional love, as she's heard when you have kids you have to be prepared to catch sick in your bare hands.

She's it. And whoever can find her and convince her to spend her time with them will feel extremely lucky, and will try to ensure she feels the same way.
Or she might want to stay alone, that's fine too.

SophoclesTheFox · 08/09/2018 07:09

If She's It, I do not want to particpate in this game of tag. I could end up being It too! Blerk.

They really need to make the Patriarchy Indoctrination Manual a bit more subtle.

Bloodybridget · 08/09/2018 12:20

Yes Thankewe but it seems at odds with the sickly submissive tone of the page!

tillytop · 08/09/2018 12:53

Good one Toddleoo Wink

Juells · 08/09/2018 14:52

BlackeyedSusan

fucking twaddle.

Couldn't have said it better meself. It's that old "a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom" bullshit all shined up and presented as if new.

thatwouldbeanecumenicalmatter · 08/09/2018 20:39

She has a soft submissive side because she happens to want to, she will however end you if necessary.

😂

👏👌 Toddleoo much improved, I love it, thank you 😁

mzterry · 09/09/2018 05:30

urgh, this bullshit still lives. I feel like its being pushed down my throat, over and over again. I'm not a good enough woman because (insert ridiculous reason here).

I have short hair. I get spat at in the street, I get called names: lesbian, slag, man-hater, I have teenage girls tell me I look like a man. What, in my bodycon frock with my c-cups and my eyeliner? My answer to all of this?

I'm a slag? So is your Ma. I'm a lezzer? Only on Wednesdays, when I fuck your Ma.

ah, the joy of mother insults never fades.

You can tell I'm northern, right?

FurryDice · 09/09/2018 05:43

I'm a slag? So is your Ma. I'm a lezzer? Only on Wednesdays, when I fuck your Ma.

ah, the joy of mother insults never fades.

This is completely at odds with your gripe, @mzterry. You say you’re not ‘a good enough woman’ because of the slurs you face, but you bat them back with more misogyny? It doesn’t make sense to do this.

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