Elisa Mariño
2 min readJul 14, 2022

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Why do some men delude themselves so much? I mean, if we say that we want respect, then we reject the men who disrespect us and do our best to avoid them. And when we reject the men who disrespect us, those men who claim that we want disrespect to become angry and claim that "we don't know what we want" because we have rejected the men who didn't respect us as we said we would...

Tell, this "everyone" who "knows that actually desire disrespect" happen to be all men who disrespect women and don't take no for an answer? Because there, what you have is men who aren't desired at all, have been rejected but can't accept the rejection and go with that mantra to make it seems as if it wasn't harassment or rape. Women don't desire disrespect, but assholes claim we do to try to convince themselves and other men that they aren't assholes. But they are assholes.

Anyone paying attention would tell you that your "example" of "nothing wrong" is usually preluded by weeks of them telling them what they needed/wanted and being ignored (just like you ignore the part about wanting respect) and, of course, after being ignored for so long are angry because "how it is possible that after telling you what they want so many times you still don't know?". And the real problem is not that you don't know, is that you don't care and want to pressure her into asking for nothing and take the disrespect. So saying "nothing wrong" with sarcasm after weeks of her words being ignored doesn't mean that she means the opposite of what she says, it means that she is fed up with her words being ignored. And by the way, if you go by the motto of "women mean the opposite", no wonder if that situation where she is angry because "you can't interpret her words" is common for you. They are telling you things straight, but you are choosing to ignore them or do the opposite. It is all on you for being willfully dense.

Anyone rational would try to, you know, take women at their word and be nice. Then again, you can keep doing the same and pretend to be surprised if it ends in a divorce or breakup as if you haven't actively been working towards that end. Your choice.

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Elisa Mariño
Elisa Mariño

Written by Elisa Mariño

Fiction is the art to tell lies to show truths. Politics is the art to use truths to tell lies.

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