Feminism Means Never Having To Say "I Like You".
List Girl: “I saw her out, and she didn’t even say hello to me. And she calls herself a feminist.”
She had called our mutual friend to report me for this violation of Girl Code.
I see a flaw in this logic. And I explain it to the Mutual Friend who has taken on this poor girl’s cause: ”Feminism taught me we don’t have to be nice to people we don’t like. Patriarchy is the system that says girls have to be nice to people regardless of how they feel.”
You can campaign for me to observe social niceties; you can insist it will decrease drama, reduce tension, defang situations. You’d be wrong. Nothing increases drama, tension and fanginess like capitulating to Faux Power.
Faux Power is when you get things by employing the following: whining, triangulation, splitting, social aggression, playing the victim, gossiping, ganging-up, backhanded compliments, intimidation, preening, sucking up, flattery and shit-talking.
I don’t like people who do these things. And here’s the biggest secret of all - no one really does...
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