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This post on IG irritated me to no end. This woman is sharing an epiphany that amounts to a male chauvinist's wet dream. She realized that she can receive men's most profound internal truths if she shuts up. Apparently engaging in a back and forth conversation hinders men's self-expression so women should silence themselves to encourage male expression. Why bother with a reciprocal conversation when you can have men monologue at you? And why do I have the feeling that these men don't return the favor? I am so annoyed at how much energy we women put into understanding and empathizing with men when we get so little of it in return.
And if she had a tendency to interrupt people in conversation, she is a shitty conversationalist. That is not a female problem. That is a her problem, but, of course, she extrapolates her advice to all women. Misogynistic men must love hearing a woman validate the idea that women need to just shut up and listen.
I mean I kinda get it. If you want to know how a man really feels just let him ramble and he'll eventually tell you what he really thinks and perhaps tell on himself. But I don't think that's what she's trying to say.
Haven't clicked the post but there's nothing wrong with sitting back and not being the one entertaining these moids or answering their interviews. You're vetting them not the other way around. I honestly feel like even the CIA employs these tactics of strategic silence and they often mirror just one word as a question so the people they're talking to spew out more information.
There's nothing wrong with observation and silence as a woman and it's not a weak or submissive thing. Pick mes are rarely observant because they're too busy monitoring their behavior instead of analyzing moids to see if they actually like them or if they're hvm- such thoughts would never occur because they are trying to impress the moids-so they talk about themselves and prove themselves to him. The total opposite of what fds is about.