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View submission: XKCD 1325: Rejection
To be fair, this could be entirely gender neutral and it would still make sense. Rejected women also make similar generalizations.
Comment by DR6 at 03/02/2014 at 20:14 UTC
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You're right, but:
1. The stereotypes used to make the generalizations are different(the ones against men go normally like "men only want to be with sexy women who are dumb and maniatic" or something), so it's hard to criticize both at the same time
2. There isn't a loud corpus of women using generalizations, while there has been a rise of MRAs and PUAs on the internet generalizing against women.
So it makes more sense to poke at rejected men specifically, in the current context.
Comment by [deleted] at 03/02/2014 at 23:21 UTC
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This is *purely* anecdotal, and perhaps you know different sorts of women that I do, but unlike men, I’ve never heard a woman, friend or otherwise, complain about being “led on” or “friend-zoned,” and almost all of my friends are women.
Comment by celebril at 03/02/2014 at 18:02 UTC
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But gender neutrality is misogynistic.
That's why you're downvoted, btw, you sexist.
Comment by XMorbius at 03/02/2014 at 19:24 UTC
-27 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Yeah, it's unfortunate that he took a gendered approach to the issue. In the end the problem is that people are jerks sometimes. Gender has little to do with it.
But, this will get him plenty of views from Tumblr and probably a piece on Gawker, so who knows. It may have been a great way to get views.