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You've gotta be so weird about women to fit in with other dudes. Trying to understand women as people and not as some mysterious alien species makes you an immediate outcast.
Fairly benign example: men will frequently complain about how women will "complain about something and then get mad when you tell them how to fix it". Trying to explain the concept of venting (they're doing it right now! They're venting right now about women!) has usually gotten me reactions that range from weird looks and disbelief to arguments that women actually just love not solving problems.
Obvs this isn't as big of a problem as having to put up with men refusing to understand you but it still sucks being expected to participate in it
A friend from school was getting married. I hadn't seen him for years for one reason or another. I met up with him and his future wife and a few others. She was sat between him and me.
Thought it would be a nice to speak to her as if she was a person. He starts calling me homophobic names as if that would be the only reason why I would talk to a woman as an equal. So his wife just sat there for the whole meal in silence as he spoke with the person to his right and kind of forbade her from talking to me.
What a dick head. I left before dessert and never saw him or her again. I can't stand that kind of man.