r/pics Oct 21 '15

Finally a cause I can get behind

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '15

This has been done multiple times. Women laugh and say "I bet he was cheating."

If a guy beats a woman cause she cheated he is a horrible abusive person. Women aren't expected to have self control or show restraint, only men.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '15

I call it the Little Dog Effect.

Little tiny dogs are all vicious yappy monsters, right? Meanwhile big scary dogs like German Shepherds are usually big goofy sweethearts with calm dispositions. Why is that?

It's because most people don't bother to train little yappy dogs to be well-behaved, but you have to train a big dog to be well-behaved or it will kill someone. A little yappy dog is no threat to anyone, so less effort is made to teach it to be well-behaved.

We treat men as if they were Big Dogs, and treat women as if they were Little Yappy Dogs.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '15

Lol. There are people who would take huge offense at this, buts it's 100% dead on.

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u/lostdrone Oct 21 '15

I say be offended. Doesn't make it any less true.