One thing I hate about men that I don't see them stopping anytime soon is talking down at me, speaking to me like I'm a slow comprehending child, and not listening when I speak.
The listening one I have experienced in the hands of my own gender and I was used to it, but it makes me angry every single time. I know my voice is low and can easily turn to background noise but I still hate interruptions and when they do what I asked them not to because I wasn't loud enough, therefore not serious enough. Human beings huh?
There was this one time a man told me he liked me and wanted to marry me, that was his first time seeing me (this has happened severally and I always find it puzzling that they want to marry a total stranger they are just seeing for the first time).
I politely declined and when he asked me why, I stated the obvious; we have only just met. Also, I didn't like him back. He gave me a sermon that was to teach me that as long as he was the one that likes me, me liking him back is not required because God created me to submit.
All I did was laugh when I wanted to hold his head under water until the bubbles stopped.
It had always been like that. I smile whenever I can't be bothered to get confrontstional, and when I feel it about to slip off my face, I fantasise about how I can easily trip them down the stairs and the smile fixes itself.
Recently I met this man (a know-it-all who doesn't know shit) who I told on the first day (so he doesn't get his hopes up), that I was an asexual that didn't want any romantic or sexual relationships with either gender, doesn't want to get married, and doesn't want children.
He told me everything wrong with my ideals, I didn't take offence because he wasn't the first and wouldn't be the last. Then he said, and I quote “what if I rape you so that you have that child that you don't want to have”
I told him without missing a beat that if he tried and succeeded, I was going to kill him and abort the pregnancy. “I would rather be a criminal than be a victim” I told him.
He had been mentioning taking me to a hotel “just to hang out and spend the night without doing anything but sleep” but I know a scheduled sexual assault when I see one, the sooner I cut him out of my life the better, he hasn't proven himself to be an asset to me anyway.
Now back to what I was saying. I notice men don't talk down because they see me as unintelligent, more often than not they know I am the opposite of that (at least I try to appear that way), I feel it's because they know they would get away with it because society has them convinced that the fact that they are males automatically gives them position at the top of the food chain.
One more thing; men constantly acting and implying that I owe them my body without question or refusal is going to be the start of my villan arc.