The Man Who Would Not Take "No" For an Answer

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Thursday October 19, 2017 · 3:47 PM PDT

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Let me tell you a little story:

Once upon a time there was a guy who really liked a girl. He asked her out and she politely turned him down.

So he went and got a really high paying job and came back with a fancy car and asked her to go out with him.

“You’re the one for me! Look! I’m rich and I drive a beautiful car!”

She still turned him down.

So he bought a house near her so he could watch her every move. Every time she left he would be there, asking her out, and each time she would politely refuse.

Then he got angry, and he set the neighborhood on fire.

This will surely get her to go out with me as she will have nowhere to run.

The neighborhood started to burn and so she ran inside her house, scared for her life.

Seeing this didn’t work, he proceeded to torch her home. As it caught fire she ran out of it screaming. As she ran he tackled her and gave her a bear hug, crushing her chest.

“Now you will have to stay with me forever! Your house is gone, your neighborhood is ash and now you can’t move!”

And as the fire collapsed around them both he never let go.

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This is toxic masculinity. This is authoritarianism. This is the mindset of the Harvey Weinsteins, Steve Bannons, Donald Trumps, Anthony Weiners out there.

This is how they see the ALL of us. Women, definitely, but it spreads beyond that as well.

They don’t simply want to live their lives, they want to coerce others into their control, and destroy them if they don’t.

They won’t take no for an answer, and they not content with simply us following them, they want us to WANT to follow them and will destroy us and everyone around us to make that happen.

They do not want those under them to simply obey, they want us singing praises loving our obedience.

To defeat the enemy, you must know the enemy. And to know the enemy is to know they will burn everything down around them just to maintain their fantasy of control.

Saying “no” is the most powerful weapon you have in your arsenal. As Camus said “What is a rebel? A man who says no.”

Say no and always resist.

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