OK, this is getting to bizarre. For the fourth day in a row, some weirdo is scouring the blog for posts that contain words “hate men.” Now “despise men” has been added to the mix. Here is proof, in case you don’t believe me:
Buddy, seriously, give it up already. Such posts don’t exist on my blog. As much as you might want to need to find evidence that I’m a man-hater, you won’t because I’m not. There are plenty of great posts around here, so just read them and relax.
I wonder if this is the same person or if your blog is quoted somewhere as featuring a man-hating post and now different people are looking for it? It would be so strange if the same person was doing the same search again and again, as if something different would come out of it if he just entered the same search term often enough. 🙂 Maybe he thinks you have a ghost post about hating men somewhere that appears and disappears again?
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I don’t know, but something tells me it’s the same person who really really needs to convince him or herself that I’m a man-hater. Maybe I just sound to good to be true to this person. 🙂 🙂
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Sometimes people just need to believe you are a man hater. It’s a way to dismiss whatever you have to say without considering it, just because it comes from a woman.
I’ve had misogynists tracking me down for years. Thing is, at the time they were doing this, I had all sorts of illusions about men per se (not particular men, I just thought men were necessarily great). Still, when I expressed reservations about anything a particular man had done, these guys took it as evidence for ma man-hatin ways.
Eventually, of course, through their sheer persistence and distortions, they convinced me that there was, indeed, something very, very wrong with the majority of Western men.
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I’m afraid it’s more than possible that these searches are done by a woman. I find that some women tend to dislike my brand of feminism as much and as often as some men.
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Hm. I have sensed that most women don’t understand my brand of feminism by any means. I guess it’s hard to understand. I want men to stop projecting their emotional weaknesses into women and I want women to stand on their own feet and learn to think.
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“Such posts don’t exist on my blog. As much as you might want to need to find evidence that I’m a man-hater”
Nevertheless, as your post demonstrates, you don’t have to be a man-hater for the phrase “man-hater” to appear on the posts and comments on your blog. Perhaps your searcher is looking for a specific post which he remembers, or thinks he remembers reading on your blog, a post which (or which had a comment which) he remembers or thinks he remembers had that phrase.
This is a search strategy I use frequently and find quite effective, though I don’t always remember the phrase perfectly.
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I like your optimism and the desire to believe the best in people!
I think I’m getting too jaded and cynical as the semester progresses. 🙂
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