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Originally posted by 33girl
I would say that if someone's telling you every day that you're ugly and not worth anything, that's way meaner than getting hit w/ a water balloon (and going home and drying yourself off and forgetting about it).
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This is your illustration and not the illustration provided by the poster I quoted.
But, plenty of fraternity men can tell you of how they were called ugly (for being too pale, too dark, too skinny, blah blah blah), demeaned, or called worthless while they were pledging. Their masculinity and/or sexuality was questioned while being pledged or they were told to "prove" how much of a man they are by being willing to objectify women.
Many of these men may not perceive it or articulate it in the same way that women perceive and articulate their experiences, partially because of gendered context and socialized communication differences, but I think there's little qualitative or quantitative difference.