A woman shared how she is annoyed by men who apparently abandon their conversation with her halfway through to talk to other men.
Here is the story
I (26f) have a large friend group of all genders. Most of the guys I am friends with are super cool and treat me as an equal. But I have noticed something annoying about this one guy in our group.
There have been several times when him and I have been in a conversation, and a guy says something nearby, and he’ll completely ignore whatever I’m in the middle of saying to respond to the guy.
And in every single conversation where two people say something at the same time, he will 100% ignore the woman and respond to the man.
I thought it was just me, but I’ve been watching him talk to other women and I honestly get the impression that he really doesn’t care about anything they are saying and will immediately abandon that conversation if the opportunity to talk to a man comes up.
I know its not a big thing, but the casual misogyny of it drives me insane.
And what’s more annoying is that only the girls in the friend group notice he does this and none of the men in the group can even tell.
Basically I just want to ask if you notice when men do this, and how do you respond when they do?
Netizens’ comments
My ex and a visitor were doing this to his daughter and her friend during a game of Cards Against Humanity.
The girls were trying to read their prompts and these grown men were talking over them. Everyone who was actually trying to listen and play the game noticed, I called them out and they looked utterly baffled.
Weirdest phenomenon.