[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Maru

As a female with lived experiences, etc, with other females... it is incredibly f-ing common for women to get together and talk **** when one of them receives compliments from an ugly guy. I have heard it all. "He's nasty", "eww", "gross", etc. (and far worse tbh) Women can be very brutal.

Maybe it is different in other places, but when women set their mind on someone being repulsive it absolutely completely changes how they personally perceive and treat a dude and it's common they talk about him behind his back. It sucks. He doesn't even have to be conventionally ugly. He just has to rub women the wrong way that they perceive as a repulsive trait. Excess egotism causes that reaction sometimes.

I have seen women do the 180 also where they meet a new colleague with whom they have the worst possible first reaction ever. He doesn't even know and starts talking to them differently in just some other way that just works for whatever reason and then in a month they're dating...

Emotions are a powerful thing but they're not 100% reliable and so I don't see every little hissy fit as worth getting worked up over to such an extent we need to remap all our perceptions of reality to match up with how every potential scenario would play out. We are not mindreaders and that's OK.

So the Mean Girls are real?

I mean I'd still say women ripping into men that they find repulsive, is different to going on the Internet to thousands (if not millions of people) to call a guy a creep like this woman is doing, with no solid evidence to back her up either.

And I definitely agree with the last paragraph.