“One guy I know wouldn’t hold the door for women because he thought that would be ’leading them on.‘”

As a Viral Resident Writer at BuzzFeed, I cover politics, trending news, and pop culture through a lifestyle lens.

"The family lives in hypocrisy and conflicting ideologies. The wife — my colleague — now just parrots anything her husband tells her. She can’t watch the manosphere videos herself because he takes her mobile device from her when she gets home from work (where she is the main breadwinner), so she just listens to him like he’s the second coming of Christ. I once asked if she felt safe at home, and from what I gathered, she’s exactly where she wants to be.We work in different divisions, so our paths almost never cross, but when I do see her, I turn around and walk the other way."

"I am a very busy person, too — I love to work — and he liked that I had something I enjoyed, but hated that I wasn't available to be wherever he wanted, whenever he wanted. He's said to me before, 'I feel like such a p*ssy for needing to ask my girlfriend to hang out with me.' In his mind, it was like, 'If my girlfriend isn't with me 24/7, what does that say about me as a man?' Stay safe out there, ladies — the finance bros are creepin."—Anonymous, 22, F, NY