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You Can’t Tell a Good Man From a Bad Man Just By Looking
Evil sometimes lurks behind kind eyes
Very few evil men look the part.
Netflix and YouTube are full of true crime stories about handsome, cute, innocent-looking men who end up stalking, abusing, and sometimes killing their girlfriends.
When their girlfriends (if they’re still alive) are interviewed they all say some variation of how they were fooled by his charm, initial kindness, and good looks…and by the time they realized something indescribably evil lurked beneath his false veneer, it was too late.
I’ve been reading articles from feminists, incels, misogynists, chauvinists, male-feminists, and female traditionalists and I am disappointed, angry, disillusioned, and saddened.
I am emotionally, intellectually, and psychologically torn between two schools of thought: 1. While men do sometimes have filthy, women-abusing fantasies, most can separate fantasy from reality and never act on them and can be trusted to be good boyfriends and husbands, 2. Because men sometimes have filthy, women-abusing fantasies, they are predisposed to acting on them. And while many suppress those innate (and wholly unacceptable) thoughts, the entire gender must be seen as suspicious and untrustworthy.
