Okay. Thats it, Thought Catalog. I tried my best to tolerate you on my News Feed, but this post is just pretty much dehumanizing women in a certain (however microscopic) way. I dont want to go all Jezebel with you, but the way you essentialize a proper, high quality woman (and how very serious you are about it) just pisses me off. Whats more alarming is that my Facebook friends so ever seriously relate to your love and life posts, which I think are all plain self-justifying bullshit. Theres a plethora of women with quirks and interests and stories that you have disregarded and I dont think any one of them deserves to be classified as cheap women or high quality women (however much they themselves are willing to be participate in your stupid classification) based on your freaking 13 (or 21...or ad infinitum) so-called signs. By pursuing this line of thought youre trying to shove into women, youre pretty much contributing to the way that we passively classify others (and ultimately, ourselves) as members of sub-cultures within a society than can only interact with each other to a certain extent without inflicting upon the other a form violence or rejection. You alienate people, damn it. What if Im the girl who can totally relate to your posts? What do I get from being validated? What if Im the girl who can only partially relate? What form of gratification do I get for somehow making the cut to being part of your posse? What if Im the girl who cannot relate to your posts at all? What do you do, reject me? Look, all Im saying is...if you date a woman, and you find that you guys are not on the same page, that doesnt give any one a license to label said woman as cheap. Or low quality. Or whatever. And if youre a woman and you date a guy, and you found that hes an asshole, that doesnt give you the license to vindicate his assholeness as being universally true and valid for all eternity. Im talking to you too, Elite Daily. And (to some of your problematic serious posts) Buzzfeed. And yall too, persons who can oh my god totally identify with this post!
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:45:42 +0000