Posts Tagged ‘social disobedience’

The 21st Century Distrust of Women

The 21st century single man is confident, independent, and assured of his success by himself and his peers, but his sensitivity and vulnerability becomes apparent when any woman shows interest in him romantically. Note the following: the man, by default, is not concerned with sex. The life of the contemporary playboy is not one of tail-chasing and conquering, but of regrettable misunderstandings and the importance of trivial physical contact. It is the woman who sexualizes the conversation in a practical fashion; it is the male who sexualizes abstractly. The woman has been socially conditioned to know whether to have sex with a man within the first few minutes of speaking, while the male’s perspective falls back on the ideas of “getting lucky” and “playing his cards right”. Every male action is inherently a risk-assessment; every female motion is perceived by the male as intentional.

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social disobedience

  • de-friend people you like on facebook, just to make them wonder if you were ever really friends
  • use twitter only for flagrant lies about “what you’re doing”
  • post youtube video diaries at least once a week, full of complaints about a pop culture icon’s significance on your life
  • wear t-shirts with offensive words, or anything insensitive about recent natural disasters/network tv shuffles/presidential elections
  • buy a cd or movie just to break it upon exiting the store; alternatively, hold parties in which you break media artifacts collectively
  • write something more than 1000 words, nonfiction, its content of your own volition, and post it on myspace/facebook/whatever
  • start a tumblr in which you tell all your secrets through memegenerator.net
  • link to random porn videos on your delicious account, with tags like “design” and “culture” and “inspirational”