A cowgirl puts a nickel in an El Paso parking meter to hitch her pony, October 1939.
Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic
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Oh to be a horse chilling in the moonlight
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Be cruel.
I have personaly started to be extremly mean to men who try to flirt with me both online on my social media (instagram is not a dating app leave me alone) and on festivals/concerts. The way men become silent and impossibly small once you talk to them the way a man would speak to a woman he is not interested in is wild.
They have always been too taken aback by it to even throw a proper insult much less get violent especially in a crowded place like a festival.
Look disgusted while talking, have a sarcastic backhanded tone when replying, talk to them the way a man would an "ugly" woman. Make backhanded comments about his hobby, gatekeep him "oh i came to this concert bc im huge into this band, you wouldnt get it lol youre new to the scene huh? Aaaw"
Trust me when i tell you theyre left speechless. The most i have ever received this far was a stuttery, clearly not secure "oh um uh well..you must be uh GAY!!" while he was stumbling off into the crowd in a hurry.
Dont be physicaly violent just let them taste their own medicine once in rejection, let em know you can and will say way worse things than no, make him feel small and not good enough. I dont care if it sounds cruel its way past time we stop gently turning down moids and hit them with the "ew 3/10 lol no ass and too fat" they do women
If youre too scared i understand of course, as a woman whose had to get physicaly violent with a man before to get home safe (long story, doesnt belong on the public interweb) i get rhe fear, but if youre not then please by all means dont be polite to them. Humble a man
Men's phrase, "the worst thing she'll do is say no," proves in how much different worlds we live and how much they don't care about our comfort (no they're not blind, they just don't care).
Because it's the truth, isn't it? What else is there to do? Even me as a rabid man-hater and sapphic woman who has been Thai boxing for years, I wouldn't beat and maim them. Why would I do that? First of all, as a woman, a human being, unlike men, I don't see any point in violence.
Even so we rarely say no. Most often it's some stupid excuse like "Oh, I already have a boyfriend/husband". Because men never take "no" as an answer. The only thing that stops them is knowing that you, as a thing, already have another owner. Although that doesn't stop some men. There's a famous phrase: he won't know. Fucking idiots.
And it's kind of dangerous for women to say no. You don't know how these animals will react to rejection. A lot of women after this got stalkers who literally watch their every move. Sometimes refusal can be accompanied by beating, rape, threats and even death.
We live in different worlds. Where for others the worst outcome is "no", for others it's death.
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A lonesome cowboy cools his horse down in the glacial waters of Kinney Lake
British Columbia, Canada
1966
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