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Originally Posted by Someone

Starving Artist pops into the slut-shaming thread and the results are pretty much what you expect.

One of his posts deserves special mention, because I'm pretty sure he made the whole thing up.

Originally Posted by Someone

Actually, I'm happy to report that much of the nuttier aspects of the very worthwhile feminists movement seem to be lost now on the younger generation. There are quite a few young women where I work and I've begun making it a practice to walk them to their cars if they're leaving work when it's dark. At first this seems odd to them, because feminism has killed chivalry, but they sort of embarrassedly go along with it in the beginning. Then before long, when it's time for them to leave, they start dallying around, waiting to get my attention to let me know they're leaving.Then after a while they say things like, "OMG, you weren't here when I left last night and I had to walk to my car by myself!" I'm also quick to help out if they're struggling with something heavy, and they act surprised when I do that too. Occasionally one of them will say something like, "I wish more guys were like you", and then they find themselves at a loss for words when I point out that it was feminists who are responsible for the fact that more guys aren't.

Another old school thing I do is I don't curse or talk dirty in front of women. Most of them, in keeping with today's America, can't talk without 'fuck' and 'shit' peppering every sentence, but still I don't do it. Then from time to time when someone happens to notice and they bring it up, I simply say that I'm old school and don't talk that way in front of women, that it's a 'respect thing'. The mile-wide smiles this brings tells me these women enjoy being treated respectfully because they're women. And guess what? Just like ladylike behavior brings out gentlemanly behavior in men, my respect for them by not cursing in front of them has largely led them to start cleaning up their language in front of me.

So hopefully some of the more imbecilic aspects of the women's movement have blown over and now with the younger generation men can get back to doing nice and thoughtful things for women without being glared at or called sexist pigs for their trouble.
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I am about the same age as this asshole, and I am also one of the oldest people in a workplace of over 900 workers. If I started volunteering to walk "young women" to their cars in the dark, I don't think that it would go over well. But SA lives on a different planet.