Some women don't want you to say hello to them or talk to them.

[Bonobo]

13. I understand your reticence and defensiveness.

But men are not mind readers and people do not want to close off themselves to being friendly and smiling or talking to people in a public space just because there is a POSSIBILITY that someone might have had a bad experience.

So my problem with the "Don't talk to me" movement is that it is socially destructive. If a particular person does not want a social interaction, that is just going to have to remain that person's responsibility to deal with and they cannot expect everyone to change their behavior.

From a pretty woman's perspective, she may indeed get annoyed after receiving 100 comments in a day about how nice her dress is, but each one of those 100 people have no idea about the other 99 comments. See the problem?

If everyone just started to not talk to each other, it wouldn't exactly help improve the world.

Furthermore, the video in particular that annoyed me was one in which the young woman singled out men for the crime of being old. She used a variety of pejorative terms, insults and stereotypes against old people and it was just plain hateful and nasty of her. If a man did such a thing about old women, it would rightfully be called out as disgusting behavior.