If you're currently single, you're probably aware that the 2021 dating scene is basically a war zone.
I personally have had way too many encounters with ghosters, manipulators, and narcissists. But I've never seen anything like the bullshit 26-year-old Molly Hair was subjected to over the summer. She was on her way to meet up with a guy she'd met at a bar who asked her on a date, when she received the following accidental text from him: "Waiting on this c*nt. I took a pinch for confidence."
I noticed that Molly took a very kind approach in her responses to him, so I asked about her reasoning behind it (since I would most definitely not be as civil). "I don't think he is a bad person, I just think he needs to learn that that's not okay," she said. "I think I was hoping he'd learn from this experience — to not call women that. Maybe that's naïve of me."
"I think the text represents how a lot of men have this 'locker room talk' where they say certain things to each other that they would never say to women. Based on his panicked reaction to realizing he sent it to me, I think it's clear that he would never have said that to my face," she said. "The fact that (some) men are okay with using certain language around each other, but they can't use that same language around women is a problem."
"It just tells me he doesn't respect women. I don't think all men are like that and I know many who are not, but I do think there is a culture of men disrespecting women and playing it off as a 'joke,'" she said.
