do y’all ever feel regretful about that time period in your youth and do y’all ever ponder how it made those women feel? Or do you brush it off and thank God it didn’t go sideways?
Not trying to come off as if I’m finger pointing, because they’ve been hardcore male feminists that have turned out to be predators
It’s just the climate we’ve been in for a few years make hearing this type of honest admission rare.
I wince when I remember just how entitled my behavior was, especially in social settings back then.
I have a teenage niece now, and the thought of some young breh treating her the way I did young women discomforts me.
Just something as simple as not putting my hand on a strangers hips n pulling her into me to dance with, when simply introducing myself first and asking if she wanted to dance works just as well is one of those aha things that I wish I considered back then.
Do I wonder how they felt? Occasionally.
But since I wasn't often punished for my presumptiveness, it's hard to tell.
I definitely wasn't fingering a strangers nani/butthole at the bar, but again, I was definitely inappropriate at times.
But I haven't behaved like that in YEARS.