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"Hey creepers? STOP STARING!"

We are all guaranteed three things in life: death, taxes and the fact that sending an unsolicited picture of your dick to a girl is never going to get you laid.

Seriously, what kind of messed up world do we live in where someone can take a photo like that and think, “Hey, maybe this will work”. Chivalry is dead.

What has the world become when someone like Donald Trump can brag about sexually assaulting women and Trump supporters like Tomi Lahren excuse him by saying he’s “a billionaire business man, a reality star, not the pope”.

This is a man that many people believe is fit to run a country? A man who can’t even control his own thoughts let alone his actions? How did we as a species get so far down the wrong path?

Listen up guys: your dick isn’t about to win any beauty pageants. No one wants to see that. You know what really gets people interested in you? Respect. Not ogling at a girl as they walk down the hall. And certainly not opening with a line like, “How are you texting me right now if you don’t have my number yet?” In other words if it sounds like something Trump would do, just don’t do it. That’s generally a safe bet.

This sleazy, greasy, barbaric ideology needs to become a thing of the past. You realize that women are people too right? Heart, liver, brain, spine, all those things that make us human? They’re not actors on Pornhub, they are literal human beings and it’s about time that everyone starts respecting them as such.

If you see a woman and can’t help but be reduced to a caveman who stops and stares or calls out about their butt then how equipped are you to handle life?

If you’re about to head into an interview for your absolute dream job and there’s a welldressed, respectable lady sitting at her desk waiting to vet you as a potential candidate, what are you going to do then? Are you going to stare at her chest and say, “Hey babe how about we skip the questions and break in this desk?” No you’re not. At least I hope you won’t. I’ve seen how most of you act and frankly I worry that quite a few of you would completely screw up that interview.

Staring at girls may not seem like a big deal but you need to remember that it’s not solely you checking that girl out. It’s dozens if not hundreds of people doing it relentlessly day after day. If nearly every person you came across whenever you went outside stopped and stared you down, you might not feel so safe anymore either.

It’s really not hard to stop this behaviour. I’m sure there are plenty of people you don’t even know making eye contact with as you walk through the school, so it’s clearly within you to stop from staring like a dog stares at steak.

I won’t apologize for being blunt because reading all of this isn’t nearly as unsettling as a typical day is for a woman. We are all young adults, it’s about time that we wake up and start respecting each other as such.
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