Woman Responds to OKCupid Creeps by Drawing Them Naked

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As most every woman who as ever ventured onto a dating site can tell you, there are many people out there who seem to have replaced traditional human greetings ("Hi!"; "Good afternoon."; "A/S/L???") with genital-related demands

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I thought, 'What is something I can do to make me feel the way that they're making me feel?'" she told Amanda Hess at Slate. "Obviously, I couldn't just send them back a sexy message, because they would love that... So I just started doodling how I would imagine them naked … except sad-naked. It was the most immature thing I could think of, because their pickup lines are the most juvenile, basic things, but also still oddly offensive."

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Before some wounded dude comes along and insists that OKC-messaging a stranger "Wanna give me head?" counts as a "liberated approach to sexual etiquette," let me preemptively say that it's not. Yeah, some people use Tinder and OKCupid for anonymously hooking up, but that's far from generalizable to everyone. To a lot of women, comments of that sort aren't "direct propositions": rather, they're just an extension of the unwanted harassment they face on a daily basis. Simply put, women shouldn't have to constantly field aggressive sexual advances — and, online, it is both constant and aggressive.

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