OutWithFriends

The modern woman's experience is first we're sexualized, and then we're not believed, and then we're gaslighted, and then we're sexualized again. Then we don't speak out because we remember what happened last time.

No matter what women do, it's considered sexual to some guys.

Be short? Be tall? Be big? Be thin? Be super thin? Eat a lot? Eat little? Be clumsy? Be skilled? Be smart? Be not so smart? Be stereotypically girly? Be stereotypically boyish? Have a high voice? Have a low voice?

It's all sexualized. It's all some guy's fetish.

Even our private bodily functions are sexualized. If we dress in cute clothes it is sexualized, but if we dress like nuns that's sexualized too. If we loo

I just want to rant a little bit here.

My boyfriend is an avid gamer and I thought I'd try to connect to him more by asking if he wanted me to try some game. He agreed and gave me a game, but 30 minutes after starting, it was just full of a half-naked women killing stuff.

Why he thought I'd like this is beyond me, but he's so desensitized to female nudity and violence that it didn't even register to him a woman might not enjoy the same thing. I had a long talk with him about that kind of content and he seems to have understood but I don't think he's going to stop playing those kinds of games.