Ditch Your Scumbag Friend: A Life Hack for Men Who Want to Be Feminists

Spoiler alert: That guy friend who treats women badly is actually just a bad person

Anne Victoria Clark
Human Parts

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EEver since the debut of my breakthrough and extremely scientific technique The Rock Test, men have flocked to me, begging for insight into how they can become Good. So today, I’m here to tell you how to move beyond not harassing women at work and level up to full Feminist by doing this one weird trick: Ditch your scumbag friend.

Everyone knows one: He’s the guy with all the crazy exes, his relationships are full of drama, he’s aggressively hitting on a different girl whenever you go out — but it’s time to stop acting like being a manipulative predator is an adorable personality quirk.

Here are all the guy friends you can go ahead and stop enabling any day now.

The guy who aggressively flirts with everyone all the time.

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Flirting is fun, but so are water slides, and there’s a time and place for both. If your friend is so aggressively flirtatious he sees “no” as the start of a…

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Anne Victoria Clark
Human Parts

@vulture writer/editor, union ( @Newsguild ) member, Queens resident, originated in Nebraska, educated in Texas, understandably furious.