This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.

Five Types of Women Men Avoid. I'm hard-pressed to decide what my favorite part of this article is: The heterocentrism, the gender essentialism, the misogyny, the fact that these "types" are hardly specific to women (even if a designator like "gold-digger" is).

I'm pretty damn fond of the introductory "Editor's Note," though, in which running an article of rank misogyny is justified with: "As women, we're pretty picky when it comes to guys. We all have our list of deal breakers and don'ts that make us shy away from certain guys."

Yeah. Sure. An individual list of personal preferences, which every romantically-inclined human has, is exactly the same thing as broad generalizations rooted in ancient marginalizing tropes. Yeesh.

[H/T to Shaker Concatenate.]

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