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- Jul 9, 2025
I feel bad for her here. If I'm getting this right it's not that she thinks everyone IS attracted to her, it's that she wants to eliminate the chance. I can understand someone who dealt with sexual harassment pulling something like that as a "safety mechanism", only straight women would also be included in this, or is she literally not encountering any other heterosexual woman at her job?While many of the responses were sympathetic (nerdy men have earned a reputation for creeper behavior), others took issue with both Zhang's story and her harassment-mitigation techniques. Ariel, a lesbian attorney, called Jess out for using gay men as "designated emotional airbags" as well as Jess' delusional perception that everyone is attracted to her:
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By describing lesbians as "not safe" she's going to attract attention from people who thinks she's calling lesbians predatory. So that is going to bite her.
