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looks like this
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This right here be as true as can be.
I donât think so, but it was an odd and uncomfortable feeling.
But like the others here, I think it is less about anything besides a weakness in men.
Sweet FSM, this is probably the most lucid thing youâve ever posted.
Well done.
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But women feel it too. Itâs a human experience that isnât unique to or limited to men. Calling it a weakness in men is not only inaccurate, it makes men less responsible for their feelings, and women more responsible for both gendersâ feelings.
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All of this âits biology men canât help it!â just always feels like a cop out. Its selling men short and its placing the burden of their actions on women, and frankly thats bullshit. I canât help but feel the translation is âIâm a dirtbag and its my nature so suck it up butter cup!â Its also in my dogs nature to piss on my couch but Iâve trained him not to do that. Babies also need to be trained to go against their nature as they are weaned and potty trained. So what is ânatureâ and what isnât? If we left everything to ânatureâ weâd still be shitting our pants.
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Thatâs right. Basically weâve heard people say:
âIâm attracted to women, they are obviously plotting against men to take things using weaponized jeans and mascara, I have no choice but to give them thingsâ
âOne time I was really attracted to someone, so women have kryptonite powers that men are weak to.â
"I grew up socialized into a society that elevates my sexuality and sexual needs above any other sexuality, but my comfort with that sexuality and itâs imposition on others is biological.
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cc @Missy_Pants
How about thisâŚ
âI can find a person attractive regardless of their knowledge of said attraction and both of us can go on living our lives completely independent of one another without ever addressing said attraction.â
âOne time I was attracted to someone and it was nothing more than they were attractive at that particular moment to meâŚend of story.â
âI grew up and decided to be my own person and take responsibility for my own thoughts and actions, regardless of what society or marketing campaigns try to shove down my throat.â
The thread itself should be titled âWeapons-grade sexualityâ. Both women and men (encompassing every sexual preference) can be guilty of using their perceived sexuality to their advantage to manipulate someone else sometimes in a perfectly acceptable and innocent manner and other times for malicious intent.
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It really is another version of the execrable âboys will be boysâ.
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Snips and snails and puppy dog tails.
(I always hated that because WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REST OF THE PUPPY!)
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Better.
It is just sexuality and feelings, but the ideas I listed and you corrected are pervasive. Thatâs how this thread got started, someone said they were resentful for being a victim of âweapons grade femininityâ.
Even the idea that sexuality can be âusedâ by individuals is iffy, and prone to misrepresentation. We know that in the current social structure built around those pervasive ideas appealing to one sexuality is acceptable and somewhat effective.
But on an individual scale, itâs much more complicated and not all that effective, and people are prone to using it as a way of blaming their own feelings, thoughts, choices and actions on the people they are attracted to.
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Listen, you cannot accuse women of manipulative sexuality and âweapons-grade femininityâ and then claim an anecdote you offer is âinnocentâ.
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You mean, that WONâT happen? Darn it, I already got tickets and everything! 
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Can someone seriously explain to me why anyone genuinely was upset at a âwomen onlyâ viewing of WW?
Would women be upset if there was a âmen onlyâ viewing of Fight Club?
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Because men are used to certain things being âfor themâ. Iâm sure none of them would have complained about a female-only showing of 50 Shades of Grey. But superhero movies are âman thingsâ even when they star women. And even when they only wanted to go to the movie so they could say it sucked (I literally had a guy tell me this on another article about it. Men donât want to go, they just donât want to be told they canât go.)
For a certain kind of guy, it shows the âhypocrisyâ of feminism: we donât want men to have their own things, but we want our own things! And never mind the centuries of men having things women werenât allowed to, like their own money, and property, and choice of spouse, and higher education âŚ
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Oh hey they totally did a menâs only screening of Logan.
It didnât make the news though.
because no one cared
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Was any other kind of viewing for this movie when it came out. 
[in case not totes obvs, i beinâ sarcastic. sorta.]
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