Lads! Britain needs you to do your duty and get flirting

Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2016-09-25 14:59

Article here. More from the Damned If You Do Dept. After decades of being told to "leave the girls alone," now under threat of arrest, a clueless woman says she can't understand why the guys aren't chatting her up. No winning for losing. Excerpt:

'And I don’t want to stereotype them all, so let me be more specific: I refer to those my own age, who have forced me to bookmark a cattery website. In the romantic arena, trying to meet a man sometimes makes me feel like David Attenborough, stepping into the jungle to locate a Jesus Lizard (a real thing).

Finding Mr Dreamy is difficult because the main strategies a girl can use are wrought with danger. Number one is proactivity: in 2016, it seems fair that a woman can approach a chap she fancies. This sometimes works, but generally does seem to make the man's insides shrivel up when asked “having a good night?” or something equally menacing.
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British men need some encouragement, maybe even government intervention, to be more forward. In 2015, Denmark released an advert called “Do It For Mom”, to encourage its nationals to have more babies. Maybe we need an equivalent: “Do It For The Girls”. For if British men don’t make the moves, we almost certainly will be joining the Danes in the birth rate stakes.'

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It can be considered "unwanted sexual attention." Which is sexual harassment. Which can lead to legal troubles for the man.

Maybe we should get rid of all the stupid feminist laws and culture and let men and women sort things out for themselves. It worked for thousands of years, until women decided they only wanted to get hit on by men they found attractive. Others should bugger off.

Feminists always seek a legal solution from every problem.

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Submitted by el cid on Sun, 2016-09-25 15:15

I already posted this yesterday over at my Twitter account "Male Positive Media". It got several retweets and responses similar to the above about how flirting can be perceived as "sexual harassment" in today's feminist dominated culture. Charlotte Gill, the author, first replied "Eh?" to my Twitter account, then when I explained my view in the limited amount of characters, she replied "it's so obviously tongue in cheek - if you don't get that, then I can't help."

Gee, she could have been more civil about it...

I've been really generous by looking at some of her other articles, and to be fair, there have been some criticizing the overreach of feminism from a traditional conservative perspective. However, the "tongue in cheek" intent of the article may not be obvious to a lot of men beaten down by decades of male-bashing feminism on one hand and traditional expectations of men on the other hand.

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Submitted by mens_issues on Sun, 2016-09-25 17:01