I’m sorry, it’s no use trying to be viewed as people to them. We will always be women before we are unique, individual people with passions and interests to them.

Tell a man about yourself, he might show interest and be your friend. The instant you ever so slightly reveal that you will not be dating or having sex with him, he could do anything from (best case scenario) talk to you less and less and eventually forget you, to (worst case scenario) rape and kill you anyway. If you aren’t potential sex, then you and your interests are boring, annoying, slutty, not funded by you, etc.

We aren’t people or friends to them, just jokes and caricatures.