Women don't think that women can make adult decisions and be held accountable for those decisions

Years ago I worked with and sometimes supervised a college-age intern. She was into me for what I assume to be the usual reasons... she initiated the flirting and while I flirted back, I stay somewhat reserved in work settings. While I stand by what I wrote in If you are not a pussy you will do better than most guys: 'When Women Pursue Sex, Even Men Don't Get It' and argue that men should be more aggressive and direct, it's also unwise and unnecessary to f**k where you earn.

I slept with this one at the end of her time: I didn't actually f**k her until she was done with the internship, and as far as I know we enjoyed some good times. If she was faking it during the sex, she was a first-rate actress. It was an easy, fun lay and she was also extremely petite and extremely tight. She was mobile and moved out of my geographic area, and when she got back I tried to re-engage, but she said a hard "no." Too bad, but it happens, and chicks are random.

We'd stayed Facebook friends since then and while Facebook is a waste of time I do use it occasionally... usually to set up hookups or arrange real-world meetings. A year or two ago I happened to see a post about a career milestone for this girl (although I think she's going in the wrong direction, I've not been asked my opinion so I shut the f**k up about my views). In the post she wrote about her career decisions and her relationship . . . with an older guy . . . who "took advantage" of her. I'm omitting some details, but she was definitely talking about me.

She wrote that I had taken advantage of her vulnerability and used age and wisdom to become intimate with her. She also wrote that I had betrayed her trust in me. This is funny because she was an active participant in seducing me and I recall what she was like in bed (eager, happy, seemingly satisfied or, as I said above, faking it well).

Our relationship ended in a somewhat untidy way that wasn’t ideal on my part (no one is perfect, very much including me) and she got lost in the shuffle because I was f**king a couple other girls at the time, and she left the area pretty quickly. One day during that time I was supposed to meet her for coffee and as I walked in I saw my #1 girl already sitting at the window! I hadn't properly prepped either for non-monogamy, so I had to run and make some unfortunate and very lame excuses... part of the angry girl's reaction is probably due to my own hectic schedule at the time, and I should rightfully have done a better job of setting expectations, boundaries, etc. I wasn't as good at that as I am now, or I just hadn't had time to.

The aggrieved tone of her post is ridiculous and she is claiming the mantle of victimhood as if that's something to admire. That woman (and she is now really a woman, not a girl) doesn't think that women are capable of making adult decisions for themselves. Like a lot of "feminists." For her, anything women do that they later regret is something that happened due to "emotional vulnerability" or "manipulation" or some such other nonsense. Women like this one are arguing, without realizing it, that women are children and shouldn't be culpable for their actions and choices. Regret something? It's a man's fault.

I disagree with that view, but I've heard enough women express it to stop me... and make me think... what if those women are right? So many argue that women can't be held responsible for their own actions and choices.

There are a handful of women in public who want women to be held to the same levels of accountability and rationality that men are. They don't buy into the SJW worldview. They are just... rare. But a lot of other women think that women can't be trusted to make their own sexual decisions. Feminists want to treat women like children. Sometimes I think, "Maybe feminists are right, given the female propensity to rewrite the past to fit present circumstances." There is an epidemic of reframing consensual encounters as non-consensual, like that chick.

Here's the other thing that I think plays into these problems... a lot of women from around the age of puberty up to age 22 or 24 don't properly and truly understand the incredible sexual power they have over men. Or how powerfully and profoundly they excite men. Many men will go to almost any length for sex with them: this kind of power is enormous and it cannot be learned to be wielded correctly in a short period of time. Women experimenting with their sexual power are often surprised by how powerful it is. They are also sometimes surprised by the intensity of their own sexual response in the moment. But our society simultaneously tells women that they are oppressed and that men are bad guys. Enormous power + rhetoric about how she's not responsible for herself = bad things.

In As Good As It Gets, the Jack Nicholson character is asked, "How do you write women so well?" and he says, "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." I don't believe this, and yet I see a lot of women in the media and online arguing it... not in these exact words, but with their meaning. Should we trust women who are making these very arguments, and believe them, when they tell us women can't be reasonable and accountable?

Holly Madison Reveals The Hell That Is Playboy Mansion Life. Now, I don't doubt that life in the Playboy Mansion was torpid and boring for the girls (how could it not be, with so little dick available and so little growth possible?). But Holly Madison got fame and a place on TV and rescued from her own inept life choices by nothing more than her beauty. After the fact, she's pissed off about it and doubts her own ability to consent. She thinks she can't be responsible for her own decisions... just like the former intern.

What women will think if men start taking them at their word? That women can't be trusted to be consistent in their own decisions?

There are of course women who criticize the fainting-damsel mindset... the Red Scare girls do it in this podcast, where they talk about the power play at work and the displacement of desire by girls on to men. Camille Paglia demands accountability and responsibility in women, and she understands that many women have regressed into a childlike state of fantasy good and evil, and they show a longing for a patriarchal figure to take care of them. But without fathers or husbands, they are lost, and don't understand themselves or masculinity. We're in the midst of a new Salem Witch Hunt, in which hysterical girls can't handle their own sexuality or admit to their own sexual agency. Years ago, women fought for the idea of sexual autonomy... now women fight to get rid of sexual autonomy and for the claim to be victims.