When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.
My least favorite form of street harassment is when a guy asks why I__ not smiling. It__ related to that: Women aren__ allowed to be quiet or stoic or shy__r, hell, just in a bad mood__ithout being criticized. Women are bitchy and frigid if we don__ seem accessible at all times, for the most part to men. We__e supposed to be perpetually friendly. Who wants to live up to that? And seriously, when was the last time you heard a quiet woman described as __eep_?Men who are serious are just that__erious. Think laconic cowboys and Clint Eastwood-style movie heroes. Strong and silent is a desirable personality trait for men__omen, not so much. Because where silence in men is seen as strength, silence in women (if not seen as bitchy) is seen as weakness__he__ shy, a wallflower.
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My least favorite form of street harassment is when a guy asks why I__ not smiling. It__ related to that: Women aren__ allowed to be quiet or stoic or shy__r, hell, just in a bad mood__ithout being criticized. Women are bitchy and frigid if we don__ seem accessible at all times, for the most part to men. We__e supposed to be perpetually friendly. Who wants to live up to that? And seriously, when was the last time you heard a quiet woman described as __eep_?Men who are serious are just that__erious. Think laconic cowboys and Clint Eastwood-style movie heroes. Strong and silent is a desirable personality trait for men__omen, not so much. Because where silence in men is seen as strength, silence in women (if not seen as bitchy) is seen as weakness__he__ shy, a wallflower.
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