Thursday, 27 September 2012

  • Mission: Impossible - The Gender Bias


    If I were in a relationship with a female who is physically abusive, I'm pretty sure at my height and weight and with my experience I'd be able to restrain her/handle the situation without a scratch.

    It is impossible to provoke me to the point of physical releases of aggression as a result of verbal provocation, and if the person happens to be female, you couldn't get me to physically fight back (on the offensive) even with physical provocation. I only fight if I know I'm going to win and there is nothing honorable or even remotely respectable about a male "winning" (if you can even call it that) against a female in a physical confrontation or against a person who doesn't want to fight.

    In no way am I an "abusive" person and even if she were, I could handle it.

    I am often insulted for being so assertive, expressive, and open about my frustration with my current romantic situation verbally, online, and in text because I am secure in knowing that I could never bring myself to hurt a female regardless of whether they are aware of it or not. I only mention this because saying that I'm not a violent/aggressive person is given no merit because I could be seen as a liar and before a relationship even begins, my reputation is already damaged because of other's lack of self-control.

    Why, as a male, should I have to come off as being "polite" and "respectful" if the female in a relationship doesn't have to only for everyone to automatically assume the female is so weak and vulnerable? In my opinion there is a huge and sickening gender bias and double standard at play that leaves males forced to "act" like good guys EVEN WHEN THEY ARE GOOD GUYS, making them look "emotionally weak and immature" in comparison to females, while women can say whatever they please because they could never be just as aggressive, right?

    I recently had many readers on Datingish call me controlling, abusive, manipulative, and many other negative things in regards to my behavior about a relationship with another Xangan. However, the fact that right in her video section there is a clip where she says she would break something over my head for saying 'the number of people a person has sex with correlates to their ability to trust/love a new partner' is totally overlooked.

    All the while, I had the police called on me for trying to contact her after I had said, "You really don't want me as an enemy." (It was considered a threat in spite of the fact that I said it because after weeks of her ignoring me and being disrespectful when I would attempt to contact her, I couldn't help but think this was all a big game and she said and did the things she did deliberately to hurt me.)

    I could've either done everything she told me to do and the relationship would've fallen apart because catering to her every want/need would make me look emotionally weak/pathetic to her (she ended up saying things along the lines of, "I want you to do it because you want to, not because I tell you or ask you to," only to later conclude we're not "compatible" because I shouldn't have to "change for her" I should "just be that way"), or I could've put her in her place like I'm doing now by telling her she was spoiled and impossible and she owed me the decency to talk to me about her feelings in a relationship we never mutually agreed to end (to which she and everyone else calls me emotionally abusive/controlling/manipulative).

    If she's so weak and vulnerable and a victim, what right does she have to call me emotionally immature/childish and be all-around disrespectful if I can't argue back directly without law enforcement getting involved?

    I only appear "weak" because if I show my strong side or any assertiveness whatsoever and attempt to contact her to resolve these issues, she automatically assumes I am a physical threat and is gone like the wind before I have a chance to explain myself and then have people threatening me with violence because I'm "abusive" or "stalking."

    Does she not owe me the chance to maturely discuss our feelings so we can resolve these issues and continue where our relationship left off? That is, do I not deserve a chance to redeem myself after she falsely assumed I was a physical threat (as she clearly still blames me for her assumption)?

    What do you think, readers? Is there a gender bias at play?

Comments (88)

  • sexyandskinnyy@xanga

    Honestly, I think you should ditch her and find a new chick, bro. She sounds crazy (even though I'm always skeptical when men describes their exes as being the crazy ones).

  • Colorsofthenight@xanga

    It's time to let go.  Then again, I'm still after Putin.  Not because I want Rusian dick necessarily, though scoring at some point in my humiliating existence would be nice, I want to feel normal again.

    I would also like a payout for the life he destroyed.  He knows the authority he has.  Plus, I was pretty immature back then and still am to a degree.

  • Pure_Taint@xanga

    While I often disagree with your opinions (the ones I've seen anyway), that doesn't make you wrong, abusive or anything else ridiculous.

    I'm sorry you're being treated like that. I'm...appalled the cops were involved. That's taking things to a whole different level of insanity. If being assertive or having an aggressive personality automatically made you a violent person, every politcian would be in jail for assault.

    Besides, girls these days are committing violent crimes at a higher rate than ever.

  • bloggicus_maximus@xanga

    No, she owes you fucking NOTHING. Move the fuck on, this isn't goddamn highschool.

  • DrummingMediocrity@xanga

    @Pure_Taint@xanga - Look, I would have the same reaction too if I had read this entry, but I'm going to tell you and everyone else the real story.  I don't care enough to repeat these details again, so this is the last time I'm wasting energy on the subject. I'm sick of him going around on datingish acting like some kind of martyr when the truth is he DID hurt me when he harrassed me mercilessly.  I have NEVER called the police on ANYONE before, and as long as he doesn't invade my personal life again in that way I will not do so again on him.

    He conveniently left out the part where he contacted me in every way he could, and I'd blocked 3 dozen phone numbers, almost that many e-mail addresses, and half that many made-up xanga screen names a day before the police were called.  I HAVE his xanga entry where he threatened me saved on my private xanga, even though he had deleted it right after.  So I'd love to show it to you if you don't believe me. 

    Anyway, telling you how much he contacted me after I explicitly asked... and then told him to stop doesn't even begin to cover the actual content: the incessantly alternating messages of worship followed by character assassinations when I refused to engage his unwanted contact. 

    We met on here, and after what I realized things had gone too far, I told him I wanted to slow things down.  Part of what made me realize they'd gone too far was his lack of motivation, which contrasted sharply with his grandiose and inspiring ideas for future endeavors. He laments this like the plague.  "I don't need to make plans, I don't work like that" would have been fine, had he been working towards his goals in some other way.  He lived 5 hours away from me, had zero money saved (not even a bank account), no working vehicle, lived in his parents' house and was fired from his seasonal landscaping job (he recently bragged on datingish that he's apparently been fired from more than half a dozen jobs) with little incentive to seek new employment.  He was too self-righteous, rambling about how "we all have to work for other people" and "that's not fair because caveman lived off the land" which soon turned into even less coherent nonsense.  Still, I tried to retain some hope that he was going to try.  In response to his seeming lack of motivation, I said:  when we finally live closer to each other, maybe we can date and take things slowly like a normal relationship.  This is what I was comfortable with.  But he refused, because I already had said things like "I love you" which I admitted I shouldn't have, but I was no longer comfortable with continuing.  He refused to wait and work towards building a relationship with me.  He already thought I belonged to him.  It was around this time I realized I had horribly misjudged his character, and he wasn't going to take no for an answer.

    I had already given him a billion chances to be friends, even (despite his behavior) to start over and date in a way I was more comfortable with, yet he continued insisting that I owed him an immediate relationship despite my discomfort with it. So after he started sending me two to three dozen text messages at a time arguing with me about it, I asked him to give me some space.  He refused.  I finally told him to just leave me alone , then when that didn't work I resorted to begging him to leave me alone, all of which preceded the blocking which precipitated finally calling the police because I was to the point of having anxiety attacks; I was being awoken to dozens of text messages on new phone numbers every single day, going to sleep after having seen hundreds more later that day).  Have you ever felt truly helpless?  If so, then you might know how I felt.


    Sure, I'm not perfect.  I said some crazy things to him and he did too, but we shared very private things with one another in confidence.  Those private things included most of our vulnerabilities, insecurities, and weaknesses.  Unlike him I'm not going to share those personal insecurities and neuroticisms of his for all of xanga to see, because I know it's not in my right to do; and that's obviously in spite of the fact that I consider him a vile and disgusting character.  The difference between us is even at my weakest, angriest, or most craziest moment, I would NEVER harass someone who pleaded and demanded I stop.

    That's all I have to say.  You can take it or leave it, but at least now you've heard both "sides."

  • bloggicus_maximus@xanga

    @DrummingMediocrity@xanga - Yeah, you don't owe him anything. He's another 'unique special snowflake' who thinks he's entitled.


    Plus, he seems like a crazy psycho stalker from your side of the story.
  • eatdrinkandbemaryy@xanga
  • Pure_Taint@xanga

    @bloggicus_maximus@xanga - Agreed.

     @DrummingMediocrity@xanga - I wasn't really addressing the relationship issues, more the "gender bias" and what not.

    If he's been doing all that though, I understand you. No matter what his intentions are, he's not going about it the right way and just needs to accept that everything is over.

  • bloggicus_maximus@xanga
  • DrummingMediocrity@xanga

    @bloggicus_maximus@xanga - Thank you sweetie pie.

    @eatdrinkandbemaryy@xanga - I like you.  You still have that adorable profile picture too.  UR CHEEKS ARE SO CUTE!!  (:

    @Pure_Taint@xanga - His gender bias complaint has nothing to do with reality.  I was very kind and sweet to him, but after he didn't leave me alone, I resorted to verbal castration. 

  • bloggicus_maximus@xanga
  • Pure_Taint@xanga

    @DrummingMediocrity@xanga -  I would do the same thing. And if he loved you as much as he claims, he'd realize he's hurting you and leave you the hell alone. Instead of stalking you.

  • EpistemicDuty@xanga
  • Colorsofthenight@xanga

    @bloggicus_maximus@xanga - did someone tell you that, man? That would hurt my self-esteem.

    There are a million snowflakes in the sky and we make the pure, pure snow for dogs to pee on. 

    And we're special--special like everyone else!  Tis my goal in life, to not be separated out and hunted, to be pissed on in peace!

  • bloggicus_maximus@xanga

    @Colorsofthenight@xanga - We're all worm food in the end, so no, there is no such thing as a unique, special snowflake.

  • TheNotoriousGOD@xanga

    i am SO fucking bored of this.  take your shit elsewhere.

  • Saridactyl@xanga

    What a creep. I didn't even have to read the other side of the story to know that.

    Oh, and btw, "You really don't want me as an enemy." IS a threat. There's really no other way to take that.

  • EmilyandAtticus@xanga

    Dude even your side of the story makes you sound like a crazy stalker. She said leave her alone. That is the only part of the story that matters. Do it.

  • bloggicus_maximus@xanga
  • Saridactyl@xanga

    Dear Datingish,

    I think that since this was clearly about another Xangan, you really should have shown some respect and not posted this. It's obviously meant to be a flame post and you're just making it worse by catering to childish antics.

    Do your editors (I use that term loosely here) even read anything you post here?

  • anonymous

    @DrummingMediocrity@xanga - Is he talking about you?! That's fucked up! There's always two sides to every story and judging by the way he treats women on here, I'm not believing a word he says.  I feel for you that you had to put up with this possessive obsessive individual.

    OMG datingish why post this garbage? If you're gonna let T3hZion post this, please let drumming post her side of the story, and if you're going to post this crap, please post my entries calling @chibi_son_goku out for insulting for people for being "fat" that needs to be said.

    if any entry like this should have been posted, it should have been about the pathetic chibi i wrote about him.

  • anonymous

    Now would be the proper time to say tl;dr.  I'm not even going to bother reading this full of shit post.

    I'm just going to go by what I see in the comments.  If I were her, whether she did this or not, I would have called the police on you myself and reported you as  bothering, nuisance, and stalker.  in fact when someone was stalking me the way you are stalking drumming, i did call the police on him. i even got the numbers for a lawyer and a restraining order office if he didn't back off me.

    What's with your comment saying that no one wants you on their bad side? I'd take that as a threat and report you.

    @DrummingMediocrity@xanga - When the old guy behaved like thezion, too, the old guy used to send me text messages saying he loved me every week.  i ignored him for one day and he thought something happened to me so i chewed his ass out time and again.  people definitely take advantage of kindness. i was nice to him in the beginning letting him down gently and he kept pursuing me.  he finally realizes to leave me alone with that shit and if i see him bothering me with his unrealistic feelings again i will tell him once again. i've given the old guy so many chances to be civil.  i'm only being civil because i'm a nice person, sometimes too nice to people who don't deserve it.

    definitely don't stoop to thezion's level posting a response, i believe you. people already know he's a crazy son of a bitch lunatic -- even the other datingish trolls are calling him psycho.

  • xinq@xanga

    Get this God Damn pathetic nitwit that is the OP off of datingish. I kinda can see why you won't because he'll just sign up with a new user name and continue to do it.

    As if trolling everyone else's blogs with this shit isn't enough you allow him to make it his own post. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE likes this dude, so why are you editors still allowing him to post his arrogant, ignorant remarks?

    You ARE controlling -- you are MAKING her or at least trying to make her talk to you when she doesn't have to.

    You ARE abusive -- you are emotionally abusive and black mailing her.

    You ARE nuts.

    Please check yourself into a mental ward. No one likes you except yourself on another xanga account called "jenitroll"

  • cindrelle@xanga

    what the hell is this doing here lol

  • T3hZ10n@xanga

    @bloggicus_maximus@xanga - "We're all worm food in the end, so no, there is no such thing as a unique, special snowflake."

    It's funny how people claim love doesn't exist, and yet they fail to realize that proving such a claim in a scientific manner would necessitate its absence in order to prove its absence.

    If love doesn't exist it is only because people prefer proving love does not exist more than they prefer loving.

    As for your snowflake reference:

    No two things are ever the same. If they were, they would be one thing. Show me two snowflakes that are "the same" and I'll show you one snowflake that is in a different location than the other with different absolute and relative coordinates on Earth.

    Everything is infinitely describable, and not one thing in this universe is not unique (because if it weren't unique it wouldn't be ONE thing).

    Even if she is not "a" unique snowflake to you (an oxymoronic statement, as "a" implies more than one exists), she is to me, and you and I are not the same.

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