Four Types of Angry Men Who Just Can’t Help but Word Vomit in My DM’s

I’m sure many other women have met them, too

Katie Jgln
The Noösphere

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Over a week ago, I got published in a big online magazine.

And while that’s great, whenever my work goes viral-ish, it usually means that I’ll have to deal with a massive influx of emails, DM’s and comments for weeks to come.

Most of them are luckily positive this time, but quite a big chunk — I’d say around 30–40% — are just angry rants. Almost exclusively from men. Of course.

I started slowly going through them a few days ago, and, oh boy.

Some of you really aren’t ok in the head, are you?

Otherwise, I can’t imagine why someone would be so bothered by an article no one forced them to read that they’ve decided to spend a good ten or more minutes crafting a lengthy and chaotic message to a person they’ve never met or heard of before.

Still, I’m sorry to break it to you, but you’re hardly original despite all your efforts.

Because all of you essentially said the same things with varied word vomit and could fit into one of the four following categories of angry men, I’m sure other female writers know all too well, too:

The Mansplainer

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