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When Female Choice Is Being Ignored As Though It DoesN't Exist

I have been harassed for 3 years in a row by a misogynistic man.

14/04/2024

Ruth Silbermayr
Ruth Silbermayr

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Because Jakob Albrecht wouldn’t stop stalking and harassing me, I decided to contact DDr. Raphael M. Bonelli. Mr. Bonelli is an Austrian psychiatrist who has a popular German YouTube channel.

Raphael Bonelli posted this YouTube Short shortly after, talking about “female choice”. He says: “Most women aren’t that dangerous; this is what I have learned. She won’t kill you. In the worst case, she’ll move on. She’ll move on thinking, ‘Jeez! Not another pickup line.’ … If you would like to marry a woman, you have to be able to accept the fact that a woman may say ‘no’. If she says ‘no’, stop whining and move on and ask the next woman. If you are a man, you have to be able to tolerate this.”

In the case of Jakob Albrecht, from his point of view the only thing that seems to count is “male choice”. “Female choice” is gaslit away, is pretended doesn’t exist, is pretended is not my right to have.

For a relationship to come to fruition, there has to be consent (‘I am willing to be in a relationship with you’, ‘I am willing to date you’), transparency (‘I am not lying about who I am, how I look or any other personal information about me’), as well as a combination of female choice (‘I choose this man as my boyfriend’) and male choice (‘I choose this woman as my girlfriend’).

I enjoyed Mr. Bonelli’s critical observations about Austrian society during the Covid-19 pandemic and used to watch his channel back in the days when we were all locked in, not allowed to leave our flat other than to go shopping or to go for a short walk.

A little after Mr. Bonelli posted this Short, I realized Jakob Albrecht had contacted him as an anonymous poster so his question would appear in another video in Mr. Bonelli’s YouTube channel. He is following everything I do online via spyware and believe me, it is creepy when a person you don’t really know reads all your messages, emails, watches you while you talk to your children and checks your YouTube search history.

Has a man ever tried to force you into a relationship with him?