Over the last few weeks, I've had a number of conversations with my male friends about them being called "safe," or in one case, a "safety blanket." Don't know what I'm talking about? Celebrate.
This is the phenomenon in which a (generally young) woman dismisses her behavior around a guy as "Oh, that's just so-and-so. He's safe." It always sounds like it's meant to be a compliment, but there's very little like it to bring out the bitter in a guy even decades after the fact. It took explaining the concept of "safe" to the wife of one of these friends for me to really figure out why.
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