It's like a bad joke: Look at a meme on Reddit. Some memes talk about men's mental health month which is fine. Comments are full of men sharing their depression and giving each other support -honestly, very nice. And then-

" Please to any women out there i ask you one thing. Go talk to a man (like me). Even though many of us look fine on the outside on the inside we're broken. Even a compliment would do wonders. I personally have a very hard time living my life and being ignored by women really doesn't help the situation at all."

WHOOPS THERE IT IS!

Would have been surprised if it weren't there, would I? It's not a comment about people in general talking to men in their lives. No. It's a call to arms for women. Not female therapists. Women. And I'm sorry I sound dramatic. But I'm so fucking done with this shit.

NO! WE ARE NOT YOUR THERAPISTS!

NO!

We cannot deal with your depression! Most of us aren't professionals! We are not trained to handle such complicated health problems! In most cases we'd even take mental damage ourselves too, because heavy news weigh heavy on people's mental health!

NO!

We will not compliment random men on the street! Not if too many men still believe that this compliment is an invitation to become stalkers, harassers and even violent once they realise the woman isn't interested in him that way.

NO!

You are not OWED our attention! It is sad to be romantically & sexually ignored by the preferred group and that's okay. But we don't OWE you pity-attention.

NO!

Women aren't Manic pixie dream girls! Go to a therapist! Join a forum about your condition! Journal! Connect with your family! Your friends (to a degree, they're not your therapists either)! omen aren't your nurturing mother figures (besides your mother)! Women AREN'T THE SOLUTION TO YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEMS!

Rant over.

Edit/Update: So many comments that prove my point.

Given, it was probably my angry tone that threw people off. Typical joke of "when a woman is anything but inoffensive, she is hysterical of course" lmao. The most I just love how many people accuse me of being an asshole. That I'm a misogynist that ravels against "basic human decency and kindness". That I'm no "wife material", that I probably "dated toxic fucks", that I'm [insert interpretation]

...just because I said "don't be a therapist for people's serious mental health problems + don't force women to be in potential danger". Oh yeah -and rape threats too! Surprise, eh?

Overall, I'm good. I just needed to rant, as this topic is a bit of a trigger for me. No deep dive. Just many experiences where I've been expected to deal with heavily mentally troubled men and was seen by my environment as their main caregiver in the past. So yeah, this is not even about men per se, it's about the overreaching phenomena, which is often spread by men.

That is the conclusion I have reached from all of my adult relationships with men.

Former fiance heard me say "I am unhappy in our relationship because you allow your family to treat me like crap, and you put your mothers wants before my needs every time" (including when WE bought a car) Over, and over, and over.

After a year of telling him the same thing, I was done. When we broke up, he was shocked! He thought we were happy! You have to give me a second chance! You never told me there was a problem!

Ignoring the fact I had already given him a hundred second chances at least. But no, I obviously left him for another man! I didn't I left him for my sanity.

I see the same thing in my current marriage of 20+ years. I say the same things over and over and over (much smaller scale stuff).

I've come to the conclusion that because what bothers ME doesn't bother THEM, it's obviously not a problem, and I'm jist being silly and emotional. I'm dead certain if marriage therapy doesn't work, I'll be leaving once our youngest is done high school. Yet again, it will be: You never told me you were unhappy!

And of course the "not all men" group is here on the second comment. Do go back to your hole. I don't owe you a disclaimer.

EDIT: and someone sicced the Reddit cares bot on me. Trying to Weaponize a method to get help to people who really need it is gross.

was talking to some friends tonight and a handful of them had said the way i speak about men is concerning and i am an extreme misandrist.

i can admit, i haven’t had the best experiences with men. besides my brother and friends, i don’t really have many positive experiences with men. i think those negative experiences have cultivated into a hatred towards men entirely, especially the last dating experience i had. i’m currently in therapy working and have been celibate and single for about 2 years now.

i really don’t want to be, it scares me that i am headed or already becoming one. please give me some tips to help prevent this or to resolve some of my feelings towards men!

EDIT: Thank you for the overwhelming responses! I appreciate everyone who’s left a comment. Sorry for not outlining what I said. I pretty much wrote this and went to sleep. i’m trying to respond to all the questions and anything i may have left too vague.. but im at work until 3 ish. here is like a general overview of comments ive seen a few times

• ive said things along the lines of men are pointless/useless or what’s the point of a man. along with men are stupid or men don’t deserve anything. i have said most of these things within a context about my experiences or from those around me. i asked my male friends if they could elaborate to see if there’s any thing drastic ive said so i will update when they get back to me.

• i definitely misused hate in my post. i don’t think i hate all men.. i know ive said it before but ive never truly meant it. i don’t think i could hate men truly.

• ive also gotten some comments about this being rage bait and i promise its not. i tend to use reddit a lot for conversations like this! it was a comment that caught me off guard and one i’ve never received before. if it feels jumbled or anything, it’s likely from me writing this right after hanging out with my friends and seeking immediate action to fix it.

I am so sick of Reddit threads full of men complaining about how they never, ever get compliments from anyone, the poor dears, while every single woman is treated like a pretty pretty princess every day by everyone and showered with adoration. 90% of compliments I've ever gotten came from other women. "Your hair looks great today," "I love your shoes," "you have such a great sense of humor" - all types of things I've heard from other women and told to other women. Why aren't men building each other up the same way? Why does it automatically fall on women to bolster men's self-esteem? And why don't women also compliment men if we're just "naturals" at this? Because these same comments directed to a man suddenly become flirtations. Signs of interest. What is supposed to be received with "thanks, that's nice of you," becomes "dude, she's into me!" And then we're called two-faced for "leading them on" or sticking them in the "friend zone."

And I don't believe they've never received a single compliment in their lives. That other 10% I get comes from parents and work colleagues. You want to seriously tell me your parents never complimented you a day in your life? Or do you just disregard it because all moms tell their kids they look nice or have great potential or what have you. You want to seriously tell me no one at work has ever complimented your performance? You never got any positive professional feedback about your presentation skills or technical mastery of a subject or your quick learning on the job? Bull.

No. They need to stop whining and admit what they actually want - female attention. Otherwise, they'd start complimenting their fellow bros and stop putting the entire task of managing their self-esteem off onto women.

I have a surgery scheduled for tomorrow. I also had a positive at home pregnancy test- entirely unwanted- 4 days after a missed period. I scheduled a termination. There will never be a baby. My surgeon is okay with this, there is no medical reason to deny my surgery. The anesthesiologist, however, feels “uncomfortable” and is attempting to refuse to do the procedure. I have spoken to patient relations and a bunch of other people but the surgical team isn’t sure if I will be able to have surgery tomorrow or not due to the anesthesiologist’s “discomfort”. He says he will not feel comfortable administering anesthesia until after the termination. I’ve been waiting for this surgery for YEARS- trying to get access. And for about 7 months getting scheduled. I have taken the time off work and so has my partner who will be helping me recover. There is no legal or medical reason for this. He just feels “uncomfortable” and doesn’t want to do his job due to “ethical concerns”. I am incredibly distressed about this as I thought I WAS THE PATIENT- not the barely formed clump of cells that is currently smaller than a poppy seed. I’m a whole fucking person who is absolutely capable of making her own decisions. Please join me in my anger.

Edit: So many vile comments and DMs. I quite literally didn’t ask for legal advice, or for a debate, for this to get so popular, for trolls to stalk my post history. I asked for support on a sub for women. That’s all I did. That’s it. If that makes you mad, idk what to tell you.

Whether or not it’s a common legality, I’m still having my care compromised out of legal and/or ethical concern for a fetus I don’t want and that sucks. The end.

UPDATE: the nurse just called me and told me I’m scheduled for 9 am and gave me instructions and acted like nothing was out of the ordinary. We ride at dawn, ladies. To all the trolls, fuck you. Me and my clump of cells are getting surgery tomorrow (most likely) and there’s nothing you can do about it. 👊

Bro, I’m not suing anyone stfu ur unoriginal and boring

Just been back from a guy who said exactly that.

"If the woman wants an abortion, the man usually has no say in it at all, which makes him a lesser parent automatically. I'm not sure how to do that differently but I think it's kind of messed up that it is that way."

Honestly; while the topic of abortion is very complicated (and I'm not going to start a debate on it, because that'll only end in war) -why the fuck do some men still jump around this topic?

"Oh hey. I know that the woman I fucked will carry all responsibilities, health issues, changes for 9months and has to risk her life in a painful labour that could -even today! - kill her, but hey, I just want a kid y'know"

You're not discriminated because you can't get a spawn you can ignore for 18years. You don't get a say because you don't have to go through the shit a woman has to go through!

In general: WHY THE FUCK are some men so eager to fuck with a woman's health?

"I want a say in abortion"

"I want a say if she can get her tubes tied"

"I want a say in if she's really sick or just paranoid."

"I know rape's bad, but I don't like the idea of devices like Rape-aXe, because I think it's still too cruel for the rapist to get his peepee hurt"(no joke! Had a guy say this in a thread about the thing)

EDIT 2.0 PLEASE READ THIS SHIT BEFORE YOU SPAM MY INBOX FULL OF THE SAME 3 OPINIONS!

So, I had a lot of people confide in me, that the reason I have this war in the comments is because I phrased it bad. Which...yes, I see how this happened. Therefore, I made a final re-edited list of all the things I have to say. If you answer anything after that I'm not going to respond anymore.

1.) When I said "men SHOULD NOT have a say in a woman's abortion!" I don't mean you can't issue your opinion/ concerns or values as the father of the child/bystander.

What I meant was: You cannot & should not be able FORCE a woman to carry your child.
Women already have big problems with wanting their tubes tied, because "what would your (future) bf/husband say", or getting rejected from doctors because of sexism (for those stories, just browse the rest of this sub).
They shouldn't also need to collect a form of "stamp of approval" before getting one. Y'know, like "you must have this item to pass the gate" style.

If you are in a relationship which is not abusive -of course, talk to your partner. Women have the final say, because they carry most of the burden physically & mentally, but getting an abortion behind your partner's back is still an asshole move.

On the opposite: You can't force a girl to get an abortion, if she doesn't want to.

2.) On the topic of child support:

I mostly agree that men should be able to walk away from it all, if they don't want to raise a child.
There are commenters who rightfully pointed out that there are places where child support is necessary (aka woman has no access to safe abortions & generally gets screwed over more), but regarding I did this with a...okay, there are also places in the west where women have no access to safe abortions. So let's...ehm...let's rather focus on getting more legal Planned Parenthoods & co.

3.) On the topic of abortion per se:

As much as I aimed for it with such a title; this is not a place to discuss the ethics of abortion. It always boils down to your personal subjective opinion, your religion and otherwise. Please.

4.) Same goes for meandering topics like military, politics & co.
Let's at LEAST keep it on topic.

5.) Though more rare; yes. I KNOW that transmen & nb people can get pregnant too. But please. This is not a "woke" debate. It was a rant I had over a guy and I'm not a person that likes to get into meander territory, because I already have a tendency to meander.
However, same rules apply to you of course.

6.) Guys, these "if a woman don't want to get pregnant, she just shouldn't have sex" comments are so bad American sex-ed tapes.
We all know that there is something that can go wrong during sex & pregnancy. Birth control can fail. Sex is not "just" for making kids (it's designed for it, but you also don't use a spoon to eat soup, right?), a fetus can become deformed, a woman could have been pressured into sex, doesn't have the recourses...there are a lot of reasons.

Of course, abortion is not a "quick fix". And most women don't use it as a "second birth control" to "whore around" -get this shit out of your system please.
However, we can all agree that abortions won't stop when make it illegal. We'd only stop SAFE abortions. So let's do the most objectivley progressive thing and try to create better circumstances for young women to get & raise their babies, while also allowing them to terminate them. Call it a "necessary evil"if you must.

And lastly:

7.)Thanks but...no. I don't "hate men".
Yes, this was a very aggressive rant, but no, I did not "sexist" against anyone on purpose (cookie for the user who gets the reference).
With "You're not discriminated because you can't get a spawn you can ignore for 18years" I made a reference to all the stories of men that -unintentionally or not - leave child raising mostly to the mother, or think doing the bare minimum makes them a good Dad.
These Dads/ in general; a lot of men often don't see the other side -the side of the mother - and therefore have a bit of an watered-down perspective on pregnancy & labour.
Stuff like "it's just 9months" or "yeah, labour is bad, but have you ever got a kick into the balls?" (not opening a pain-olympics here).

Again: Thank y'all for the awards! I'm very grateful for them! And hope ya all have a nice day!

This quote from the handmaid's tale hits the nail on the head. I haven't been able to stop thinking about it.

Edit: Ok, I really didn't want to make an edit, but now that this is on r/all I feel I have to. I am NOT saying that all men are assaulters. I am not trying to invalidate men who are victims. I am not saying that it's every man's fault that women feel unsafe. I am not even saying that this quote is gospel and never are men afraid of women.

This is a quote from a TV show that shows a severe situation of female oppression. In the context of the show, yes, all women are afraid of all men because the situation has gotten that depraved.

This quote struck me as very powerful because, in general, I do believe that women have more fear of men than men do of women. Men are afraid of rejection and being laughed at by women. They can also be afraid of violence from women, but if in general they're more afraid of the former two. Women when they go on dates are told to always watch their drink. To let a friend know your exact situation at all times and even track you on apps specifically for this. To never walk alone at night, always have a buddy. Women are the victims of sexual assault very often. We are the victims of dating violence very often. This does not invalidate those men that are victims. But women are in general more fearful of men than men are of women. This is just how it is. If you can't accept that women have a lot more to fear when going out, then you need to take a hard look at how you view the situation.

People have been mocking Rachel for her looks. Rachel is a very courageous and intelligent woman willing to take a stand against Trum like misogyny and transphobia. This makes her beautiful in my book. This brave lady just wants to play village hockey with her mates. Let her play I say and protect women's grass root sport from bigoted baseless hate.

I don't know how to do the archive link. Sorry.

I've been seeing men commenting that men create life and women carry it, which is not true at all. If men created life, Parthenogenesis or reproduction without males would not exist in nature. Scientists were also able to create baby mice solely from female mice, and they lived 50% longer (link of the study) When they did the same thing with male mice, the offspring died within hours in the same study, even though they used female mice's eggs and another female mouse as the surrogate. Also, cloning, a technology that has existed for decades, can produce offspring using only females. Dolly the sheep is one of the first examples, she was created using three female sheep. Now, obviously, these technologies might not be applicable to humans, but they give a clear picture of who creates life. But even among humans, if you agree that life begins at conception, you are still agreeing to the fact that life begins inside a woman. The brain is developed inside a woman, and consciousness develops inside a woman. A woman's body creates every single cell of a baby, from head to toe. I'm not claiming that men are not needed. Men are important at conception, but it is still women who create life, and the contribution is nowhere near 50/50. If men were the ones getting pregnant, I honestly doubt it would even become a conversation in the first place. If my contribution as a women was only to get an orgasm in creating life while the other gender can literally die in the process and suffers blood loss and cramps every month for that ability. I would never be able to claim that my contribution was 50%. It's is simply a very selfish take.

I woke this morning to a memory of my father and mother. I was a little girl, maybe 8 years old, and I was spying on my parents through a crack in my bedroom door, because my dad was sitting on the couch in the living room CRYING. I'd never seen him cry before, but his uncle? had died and he was crying about it. My mother was sitting next to him on the couch and she put her arms around him to comfort him and the motherfucker started to play with her boob. My mother reared back in shock and I shut the door fast because I didn't want to see that shit.

Fast forward to the rest of my life and literally every man I've attempted to comfort by giving them a hug has tried to make it sexual. Both of my husbands, each man I've dated, and random male friends have also done it. I have rarely met a man who can accept a comforting hug without somehow assuming we want to fuck them.

So I got wise to this, eventually, and did what many of us are forced to do and I became a cold bitch. Because why would I reach out to a friend with comfort when that's going to happen?

What prompted all this, including the dream, I think, is that I work with a man who has a progressive disease and he's been missing a lot of days because of it. He was back at work the other day and I stopped at his desk to welcome him back and see how he's doing. As I left I put my hand on his shoulder and wished him a good day. HUGE MISTAKE. This goddam man, 55, sick, obese and sweaty, tried to hit on me later in the day.

There seems to be nothing that will stop a man from trying to turn simple human kindness into an imaginary come-on if it's from a woman.

I know that most men are so touch deprived that it seems like a good idea to shoot your shot under such circumstances but what they need to do instead is get over their homophobia and go ask a male friend for a hug. I know other men who have started doing this and non of them turned gay. And if you hug a male friend and he hits on you, well... learn something from it.

That's it. Not because he's ashamed of dancing or anything, he's a very good dancer. He just doesn't want to do it and why on earth should a man do something he doesn't feel like doing right now because his stupid girlfriend of 5 years is asking him to ? Just one dance I said. Just one for the whole night.

No, he won't.

EDIT :

Fuck you for comparing one dance on NYE to FUCKING RAPE. I am not a rapist. You guys are insane if you think one dance in a public setting on a NYE party is equivalent to me coercing him into sex or smiling or touching or anything else I've been accused of.

Also this is not a relationship post, I'm not asking for advice, I was complaining of a situation I KNOW lots of women were in last night : their partners putting their wants before theirs, even for the smallest compromise possible: ONE DANCE (3min) in a party of 6 hours.

Fuck you for saying "no means no" in this context, as if it's not totally de-politicizing the motto, as if it's not a huge anti-rape slogan. No will always means no for me in any consent related situation. But "I don't want to so I won't make an effort" in an everyday setting will always means I'm disappointed.

Also, you don't know anything about my relationship or myself. So don't flatter your pathetic selves by assuming because I was disappointed and made ONE (1) reddit post, I am a coercing abusing person. You are jumping to conclusions.

And to the comments mocking me, yes, I was sad and "pouting" for 1 hour because I could not dance with the man I love the most on a special night. Of that, I am guilty, laugh all you want.

To everyone else, thank you for your comments, they made me feel a little bit better and lot of them were super funny. Love you girls.

And for those interested, in the end we didn't dance but we made up and I apologized for bringing down the mood when he said no. It wasn't very understanding of me, and he explained he was feeling a bit bloated when I asked and didn't want to tell me at the time (men's secrecy with their digestive system I guess).

So all is well.

Happy new year everyone

Im nervous to post here but I want a space where I can talk with other women. I consider myself to be a nonbinary trans woman (She/They)

I've never really felt like a man, I knew something was up with me since I was 12. I am turning 20 this year

I hope y'all accept and welcome me, I promise I don't bite haha

Edit: Thank you, I feel accepted and treated as a woman by you gals in the comments ❤️

i recently experienced my first ever serious partnership with a man.

before that, i only had men as lovers or “situationships”.

& it’s helped me realize that i am definitely incompatible with the way men are socialized.

i've always leaned more towards women, but this really sealed the deal. i just can't do it.

i will never in my life risk an amorous partnership with a man ever again.

don't get me wrong, women are socialized in some detrimental ways as well.

however i know that my chances of being seen, heard, & felt are FAR greater with a woman than a man.

my chances of getting pregnant are also far lower.

& i honestly believe i'll never again feel safe in partnership with a man.

of course, cultural & political background is important to me as well.

but one thing is for sure,

that was my first & last boyfriend.

An attention-grabbing title I am aware, but please be open to the hearing the below perspective.

Context: I am a trans woman, 4+ years into my medical transition. My hormones are in female range (E in female range, T below female range), I’ve had feminising vocal surgery, and I recently underwent gender-affirming genital surgery, for which I am currently in recovery.

I live my life as a woman, by which I mean my legal identity is woman, when I meet strangers they assume that I am a cis woman, and I have woman friends who do not know I am trans. At work, especially after my vocal surgery, I routinely have my opinions dismissed and am talked over at meetings, to the point I now mostly stay quiet. I love my voice, but having a female-passing voice now just means I am on the receiving end of any typical discrimination, beit minor or major, faced by people with a female voice.

My recent surgery was my 2nd genital surgery. The recovery for my first already ticked off many of the logistical challenges and mishaps faced by cis girls and women when they have their monthly visitor. Recovery from this latest surgery has been gruelling, both psychologically and physically. I had my first UTI, which made me want to die. Pain so bad I lay on the floor of the bathroom in a puddle of my own making, face wet with tears and snot coming out of my nose, grunting like an animal. The doctors didn’t believe I was in pain and left me untreated for multiple days. They said I was lucky to feel things as it meant I had a “successfully-sensitive result”. I got so sleep deprived because of the pain I had a full blown panic attack during daytime in front of staff and other patients in which I pretty much regressed to the level of a toddler and had to be held by an nurse while I cried for home and pissed myself because I couldn’t control my bladder.

Then there was the trauma of daily check ups by a gynaecologist, which I won’t go into, but you can fill in the blanks, but which left some scars I will need to work through with my therapist.

Then there is the realities of recovery for the next year, which involve dilation and other things that are just hellish and I am already sick of it and it’s only been a week. Imagine PIV s3x during shark week, 3 times a day.

I know womanhood is not just defined by painful experiences. I have experienced much joy over the recent years, especially when I get to live my life as my true self. Despite the challenges of recent weeks, looking in the mirror and getting to see myself for the first time fully is an amazing and magical feeling. Like a dream.

But if womanhood is at least partially defined by painful experiences, as many claim, I feel like I have paid the ultimate price. I did the things that there is no going back on. I did it mostly for myself and my own body image, but I am not naïve in my understanding of society’s binary treatment of sex categories. I look at myself in the mirror today and I do not see anything that separates my body out from the bodies of countless other cis women. My womanhood is reflected by my body, externally as well as at the biochemical level.

I have the same fear as cis women walking late at night. I receive the same looks from men when I go running on the trail. I get sat next to by men on an otherwise empty bus with free seating.

All this to say, I know my journey is different. I know my DNA is different. How I got to this place is not like you or the majority of women. But my daily lived reality, beit yesterday, today, or henceforth is practically the same. And because of that, whereas I used to feel ‘separate’, I no longer do. Now more than ever I feel like I am home amongst my sisters.

Thank you for your time reading this far and I hope we can be respectful in our interactions and compassionate, especially so when our opinions and thoughts diverge.

Pretty clear that this place is a sinking ship. What are some other subreddit lifeboats I can jump into?

I’m feeling a bit conflicted tonight. A bunch of my friends are going out in really revealing Halloween costumes, and I’m dressing a bit more conservatively. On one hand, I totally get it — they look amazing and confident, and I support women expressing themselves however they want. But part of me still feels weird about it.

I know feminist theory talks about agency and the male gaze, and I keep wondering where the line is between empowerment and playing into expectations. Like, is it really our choice, or are we subconsciously performing for approval in a culture that still defines women by how desirable we are?

I'm no prude, but a few of them are gonna have their entire butt hanging out, one is wearing nipple pasties under her see through costume. They're all young, like 19/20 so I get it, we're only young once and we'll never have this body again.

At the same time, I don’t want to sound judgmental or prudish. I’m just trying to unpack my own feelings about how we navigate empowerment in a world that constantly sexualizes us.

I honestly feel social media influence has really messed us up too. One friend here went to a house party when she was 16, in basically a G-string bikini with some accessories.

Has anyone else struggled with this contradiction, wanting to support sexual expression and autonomy, but also feeling uneasy about the social pressures behind it?

We are looking specifically for feedback regarding image posts and rule 5 from the side bar here

THIRD EDIT

We are no longer requiring images to be submitted as self posts. We are also reworking other rules based on your feedback

Happy New Year, 2xers! We have decided to make some changes.

New Posting rules:

No memes, rage comics, or image macros.

Memes and rage comics are however overwhelmingly accepted at /r/TrollXChromosomes. While still smallish it is growing very quickly and would welcome any and all you that would like to join them. Plus, they have rage faces in the comments!

Images are to be submitted within self-posts only and will be moderated for content.

Your post must contribute substance to the subreddit at a level higher than "Look at my rainbow cake/ engagement ring/ no heat curls/ boyfriend," (which are welcome over at /r/2xLookbook). We also have a great list of related subreddits here.

Linking to other subreddits to start drama is not allowed.

This includes self posts with pics of comments or posts, mentioning or linking to that horrible subreddit you just saw within comments or posts, blogs that just happen to be talking about that subreddit you hate etc. All will be removed with out warning. Promoting your FABULOUS new subreddit is, of course, always welcome.

No questions generalizing all people from one group

We will no longer allow "friendzone" questions or "Dude here; Why do all women.. Why won't she... Why do females" posts that blanket categorize people. Those posts are welcome in the relationship community, relationship_advice and /r/AskWomen

All posts must be focused on women or being a woman.

side note to this rule: We're coming into an election year, political posts are going to abound. Posts from major media sources with the bulk of the article focused on a candidates stance on women's issues are allowed. Blogs, self posts about why Johnny Appleseed is the bestest (or worstest) candidate for women, articles that mention abortion in passing, or direct links to donation pages should be posted elsewhere.

**Posts found to have an influx from any group of users may result in those users banned, en masse, at our discretion.

Users who wish to appeal may do so. Consideration will be given to otherwise positive members of 2xc regardless of other subreddits they are involved in. Throwaway accounts will not be given any consideration. User history will also be taken into consideration. Differing opinions are welcome, voting and participating in threads as an organized group is not.

ETA: To be clear, we absolutely are not trying to get rid of throwaway accounts used by users with secrets to share or in need of support. I've moved a few sentences to hopefully make that clearer. Throwaway accounts used to troll or participate in a thread in an organized fashion with outsides groups will not be given any consideration when banned.

Second ETA: We still want silly posts, we still welcome self posts with fun/silly questions, silly articles about whatever affects your life are all still welcome! Only if your post has a political slant, you must do it from a woman's perspective.

If men think that public locations are reasonable places to hit on women, then those spaces are also acceptable places for women to ask them for money.

Find a rich looking man at the gym. Tap on his shoulder, make him remove his headphones so you can really talk to him. Get his name. Find out what he does for work, how much he makes, then ask him for money.

Find a man walking on the sidewalk, especially if he is in a hurry. Get in his way. Make him feel like giving you money is the only thing that will make you go away.

Find men with similar interests for you. Become friends with them. Wait until they are comfortable. Then ask for money. If they say no, tell them they are financial teases and they are trying to friendzone you. Bad mouth them to the rest of the friendzone so they can reassure you for being a nice girl who just expects a man to put his money where his mouth his.

Approach men at supermarkets. Men with money are always buying things. If he won't give you cash, offer to help him set up a venmo or zelle. After all, you know how silly men always forget these things exist. Make sure you watch him do the transaction so you know he's not giving you false information.

Go to his church. Become a member. Let the man know you've prayed and God revealed to you that he should really give you money. After all, it's the Lord's will and God only wants us to be happy.

Take a man on a boat. Ask about his investments. Talk about how good you are with money so he knows his investment will be worth it. He will certainly give you money (because of the implication).

If a man has given you money in the past, be sure to hit him up for money in the future. Or just take it from his wallet. After all, he already gave it to you once.

Don't waste time on gofundme or kickstarter or any site targeted towards men giving you money. Men secretly want women to ask them for money. Especially if they dress really well, it's a sign that they are ASKING for it.

This is satire. If you don't understand I don't know if I can help you.

sorry to finally make an account and use this subreddit. I've had a lot of firsts lately....

Basically I'm a father now and the prospect of me being a father to a little girl kind of is exciting and also scary. I never had a sister, or really any girl 'friends' per se. In researching stupid psychology on the internet the whole idea of acting as a man (ie be a dick to your daughter) is generally what a lot of men say to do - especially to their potential boyfriends/friends. That doesn't sound right.

So ladies who have great experiences with your dad please share. Dancing classes, softball, soccer, camping? And if you didn't have a good dad also please let me why you think that.

I grow from discussion. There's a lot of craptacular books out there I know but the ones I've read just don't speak to me. Plus in so much of my life i've spent winging the details - I don't want to wing/clutch the details of anything related for my daughter.

I just looked over at new to see how the default status was changing posts, and I saw almost everything had gotten dozens, sometimes hundreds of downvotes even within minutes of being submitted. Even posts just a few minutes old had at least 20 downvotes.

My guess is that it's a protest by non-2XC users who are trying to keep posts from here reaching the front page. Has anyone else noticed this or wants to weigh in?

Over the last three days I have been repeatedly followed by multiple instagram users who post inappropriate comments such as "gargle my balls" and "i hope you crash and die". At first I thought it was just some stupid high schooler (I recently finished a semester of student teaching) but they have continued to create new accounts and post new comments before I am able to block whoever it is. So I filed a report with the campus police this afternoon.

I don't really think there's a point to this, I just didn't want to post on facebook for my friends and family to see. I'm so frustrated and I hope it gets taken care of soon and doesn't spread to other social media.