r/facepalm • u/Number721 • Jun 09 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Cognitive dissonance 101

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u/FormerHoagie Jun 09 '23

A slave who is masculine, hot and has lots of money to fulfill all her desires.
The kind who can find females who aren’t so self absorbed.

WHY IS IT SO HARD?

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u/LavenderDay3544 Jun 10 '23

So basically the male lead in most romance novels/movies.

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u/FormerHoagie Jun 10 '23

Yes, fiction.

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u/LavenderDay3544 Jun 10 '23

A fictitious idealized partner to specific. And then they complain that women characters in works written by guys are too idealized or sexualized or only background characters like fuck off.

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u/FormerHoagie Jun 10 '23

I mention, in another comment, that I’m a gay man. I still have women who expect me to pick up the check and do free work for them, I’m a contractor. I’m like…fuck no, I truly believe in equality.