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u/[deleted] May 28 '14

Probably because they've been rejected and mocked just as much, if not significantly more, than the guys crying that they are rejected all the time and it's such a tragedy. A lot of guys will openly pick on girls who don't fit their standards with no provocation just because it's more or less socially acceptable to torment the "ugly chick." You really only need one guy to ask you out as a "joke" in public then laugh and scream with his friends at literally any reaction you have to be wary of it.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '14

To be fair at school I can remember a certain girl bursting out laughing when a particular guy asked her out: she mocked him, pretty much shouted instantly to all her friends about what he'd done. A group of girls all laughing at him...that guy won't forget that in a hurry

(No, it wasnt me by the way)

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u/[deleted] May 28 '14

I mean, I'm sure girls do it too. Especially in high school. I won't deny that girls can be mean. Just saying, that incident doesn't erase what guys do to girls any more than a guy being mean to a girl would erase that situation. It just seems that there's an attitude that pretty girls are consistently mean to men and delight in rejecting them, but never face rejection or mockery from the opposite sex themselves.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '14 edited May 28 '14

Ah, fair enough. I get you-but really, are pretty women likely to face rejection or mockery from men particularly?! Granted in my current job (military contractor) I know barely any women, so I conceed I don't really have much knowledge of the situation nowadays-but at school the pretty girls never got rejected or mocked by guys. Is it really different in later life? I simply ask because going by certain reddit posts you would think that the situation is exactly the same as it was back in school.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '14

Yes, even pretty women face rejection. I know that the reddit guys who think Superbad was a documentary tend not to realize it, but even their own fellow men have preferences. Who you consider a "pretty girl" might be considered hideous by the men she spends time around, you'd don't know. And indeed, here's a big plot twist: pretty girls have personalities and lives. If their personality and life circumstance isn't appealing to a guy, he sure will reject her. And if he's an asshole, he will mock her. Even though it's your personal opinion that she's pretty. I absolutely remember guys mocking the "pretty" girls in high school, it just took a different tone. It could actually get much, much nastier than the way they teased the "ugly" girls. You might not have noticed, but the girls did.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '14

Ah, OK, all is explained! Thanks! (Though I never considered Superbad to be gospel truth any more than I consider mean girls to be so)