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This happens literally every day. lmao
Really? So people randomly approach you on the street and proclaim they'll never date you?
YES. Literally yes.
I've been approached by men who say I'm wearing too much makeup and that men don't like that. That I should smile more if I want a boyfriend. That my clothes aren't very flattering and it's unattractive to him.
Like, for all your talk of "go outside" you don't seem to know what life is like for women outside.
Hearing a girlfriend express a lack of confidence because she wouldn't get accosted kind of fucked me up. A moment of realization that the way the world is is so drastically different from the way I want to believe it is, I didn't know where to start.
I try to build a habit of reacting to feeling upset with behavior by thinking up a situation that could lead me to act in the same way, but I really struggle to imagine what would make someone inclined to approach a stranger on the street with this kind of comment.
Totally unrelated, but I've seen comics from this artist before and they've always given me weirdly unsettling vibes. I can't really pinpoint if it's the dialogue or the art style.