Hi Ladies,
What do you think when a man straight up says 'You're intimidating' to your face while on a date? This same scrote mentioned the idea of poly and other men or women being involved and I quickly shut him down and said I respect myself too much to even think about that. He didn't bring it up again and got quiet. He also pointed out another woman at the bar attempting to triangulate me by saying she looked like a friend he knew and he wanted to get up and go hug her and I also shut that down in the same breath and called him out on it and asked 'are you still looking at her?' with a stone cold look on my face to which he stuttered 'No.' Background: He was a musician (I know) in a funk progressive band, smokes weed, had mostly female friends, plays DND and was employed at a min wage job. Me: I'm an RN, traveled the world solo for 2 years, have lived and worked on 3 different continents, have lived in both NYC and Miami and made a successful life in both cities and now I'm back in the midwest town I grew up in with a lot of unambitious scrotes who never left to make a better life for themselves and who still hang out with friends they had in highschool. We're also both early 30s.
Calling someone intimidating is just good old negging. He wants to make you afraid of turning him off so you'll be more compliant and passive.
In words of my favourite author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”
He's expecting you to mellow out in order to gain his approval.
Ive started responding with “Why thank you!”
I would take it as a compliment. I know it’s not meant as one, but I want low-caliber men to be intimated by me.
Why were you even on a date with this deadbeat?
Time to move lol
I‘m married, and have been with my husband for 23 years.
A couple of years ago he informed me that practically all of his male friends, colleagues and acquaintances were terrified of me.
It made me cackle as I’m a very small, feminine woman. They find the fact I’m extremely blunt, will always speak my mind, won’t back down from an argument and won’t flatter their vanity scary. It‘s probably tough to deal in the dating world if you’ve got a similar kind of personality and rock solid boundaries because alot of men can’t handle a woman who knows who she is, what she thinks and what she wants, but on the plus side it will help you weed out scrotes and also it’s hilarious watching them panic.
I love getting intimidating. Instant confirmation that I need scratch that one off my possibilities list (if I hadn't already).
I take it as a compliment. Being called intimidating by men usually signals that they see me as a real challenge.
My ex called me intimidating when he dumped me and I was like wtf?? How?? I'm one of those people who compulsively ends emails with "no rush though" and the only negative comments I get on student reviews of my teaching are that I should be more confident.
Then when commiserating about my breakup everyone else sort of agreed I was intimidating but in a way where they thought it was a good trait and because I was smart (which felt like sugarcoating it), so it's like what is it then? Am I underconfident or overconfident? How can I simultaneously get shit for being intimidating while *also* being told I'm not authoritative enough?? Being a woman is fucking bullshit man
Also >his same scrote mentioned the idea of poly and other men or women being involved and I quickly shut him down and said I respect myself too much to even think about that. He didn't bring it up again and got quiet. I think this would've also been a good opportunity to pretend to be open minded about it, see his real opinions on it, and then block/delete/ghost if he's remotely okay with it.
You've made like 5 different posts about this same guy and same date, starting in early January. I think you should get over him.
Ugh, a male therapist once called me intimidating when I mentioned Gestalt.
Guys like that are just ashamed of being dumb and unaccomplished.
I think he is weak in mind. When presented with hardship and struggle in life, he won't handle it, if only a woman is enough to intimidate him.