When Women Say They Don’t Need Men…

Let me explain something to you guys

Zara Everly
Moments

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Calm down! Let me tell you how it is.

I just read a very long and to be quite blunt, boring explanation of why women in fact, do need men. Actually, I am not 100% sure that is what he said as his article was incredibly long. I will be kind and say that it did not quite capture my attention.

Because it was boring.

Anyway, one of a million ways to whip a general mass of men into a fury and incite boring but passionate monologues of individual male indignation is for a woman to declare she doesn’t need men.

Oh my! Some (don’t worry, not all) get so mad, hurt, upset, generally not happy.

Look, I get it: women say it often. I can see how anyone saying the same thing over and over can grow to be very annoying.

It’s kind of like when some men repeatedly say that men no longer want to get married. It doesn’t pay or something like that. They are going their own way!

Ok, dude: just go.

It’s not really the threat you think it is. At least not to me.

And so, there are probably guys out there who are thinking: that’s cool, lady. You don’t need me. I wasn’t really looking for a dependent anyway.

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Zara Everly
Moments

Academic who occasionally forays into literary harlotry.