I was at a gathering with three men and four women when one of the women suddenly blurted out, “Men are dogs! They lie all the time to get what they want from us women.”
The men turned to look at me, knowing I was about to say something the women wouldn’t like.
I said, “Men lie. They say, ‘I love you,’ or ‘You’re the most beautiful woman in the world,’ and you women eat it up. Do women really believe it when a man says she’s the most beautiful woman on the planet? But women lie too. They say, ‘You’re the father,’ or ‘He was abusive.’ The truth is, both sexes lie.”
One of the women huffed and exclaimed, “You’re generalizing! Not all women are like that. You can’t judge all women like that!”
I responded, “At the start of this conversation, you said that men are dogs and that they lie all the time. Wasn’t that a generalization? Wasn’t that a judgment on your part? I gave examples of both sexes lying, but you only defended the women. Didn’t I make similar examples about men? Why did you come to the defense of women as if I was only criticizing them? Why do you excuse negative generalizations about men but take issue with similar ones about women?”
She said, “You made it seem like women are evil.”
I replied, “I never said that. I talked about both sides equally. I don’t understand your concern.”
She thought she ended the conversation by saying, “You hate women,” as the other women nodded in agreement
But I answered back with, “Are you not a hater of men if you said such negative statements about men?”
I’m such a buzzkill sometimes.