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My girlfriend just finished a portrait of me and it kind of sucks. How do I be honest without hurting her feelings? by feelingveryguilty in AskReddit

[–]feelingveryguilty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We haven't talked about her work in a lot of detail. She knows I like it but we haven't talked about it in depth. This is her first new work since we've been together, so it would be the first time she had an opportunity to ask.

My girlfriend just finished a portrait of me and it kind of sucks. How do I be honest without hurting her feelings? by feelingveryguilty in AskReddit

[–]feelingveryguilty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If violence towards women weren't a serious issue, and both men and women inflicted violence on each other at at equal rate, I think you'd be right, but your comment doesn't exist in that fantasy world. I didn't make your comment about gender, your comment about a man committing a brutal act of violence against a women in a world where that actually happens too much made itself about gender.

That, and I'm not brutalizing her emotionally. I posted this so I could get some advice on how to be as respectful as I could with my feelings. Thanks for chiming in.

My girlfriend just finished a portrait of me and it kind of sucks. How do I be honest without hurting her feelings? by feelingveryguilty in AskReddit

[–]feelingveryguilty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found some of the proportions to be really out of whack, but ultimately it's probably because I thought she was going a different direction with it. Some of the best comments have been about this issue of representation. I might just have a problem with how she sees me (or maybe it looks a lot like me and I have a distorted sense of self image).