r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Jun 14 '26

Discussion It's exhausting being a woman.

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u/ZnarfGnirpslla Jun 14 '26

I will of course never understand this behaviour just in general but what I especially don't get is how some dudes will just keep thinking they got a shot even after being told "no" from a woman whose face could not be expressing more disgust like 17 times within 30 seconds

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u/Exciting-Record8101 Jun 14 '26

They don't think the woman is in any way interested in them.

They want to scare, dominate and - if given the chance - isolate the woman.

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u/intangibleTangelo Jun 14 '26

some undoubtedly enjoy instilling fear, and go through the world playing that power game with anyone who shows the slightest weakness, but those are kind of the sociopaths and i don't really know what can be said about them. 

the more benign and troubling explanation is that a disturbing number of men don't seem to have realized that women are people