this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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You all are celebrating something bad. It's bad to assume a guy hitting on someone cannot take "no" for an answer. It's bad to assume people cannot enjoy being hit on. It's bad to assume a guy willing to shoot their shot is a creep.
Ya'll are part of the loneliness problem. Do better and stop assuming the worst of others. You're not smart. You're not helping. You're paranoid weirdos.
Now, if the message said that this was after he was following her around the gym, then THAT is commendable. Though assuming all that off of, "hey you look good, want to go out?" is just ... sad. Sad untrusting society that's spiraling.
Unfortunately, society is at a place where enough men have posed a risk to women that we are all a perceived potential threat.
And women are stepping up to protect each other. Instead of asking women to not step up, you should be asking men to step up and stop normalizing things like locker room talk and porn consumption, things that are proven to increase misogyny and dangerous attitudes of entitlement around sex.
Porn consumption isn't proven to cause violent and aggressive behaviors In fact, the inverse is likely true, those who are violent tend not to have as many intimate partners and so will have higher rates of porn consumption. There are a number of studies that have found sexual violence and rape to be negatively correlated with porn use suggesting that having an outlet rather than bottling up their sexual urges is better. That being said, the content of the porn does have an impact, so it would be better to advocate for respectful and consent positive porn than to try and ban it.