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History of Feminism

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mercuryblues

(14,530 posts)
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 05:56 PM Jan 2015

Damned if you do [View all]

Damned if you don't.

Gweneth Bateman had a problem that many girls and women experience online. If a boy messaged her with a compliment – on Twitter, Tinder, or elsewhere – and she didn’t reply, they’d criticise her for not replying.

The 18-year-old said most of the boys who criticised her felt they were owed a response and that she should be grateful for the compliment.

So she decided to run an experiment she’d seen on Tumblr: If a boy messaged her with a compliment, she would reply with a warmer, nicer answer, agreeing with and accepting the comment

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/this-is-what-happens-when-women-actually-accept-a-compliment?bffb&utm_term=4ldqpgp#.bgLznQR5Gv

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