While many men are joining the fight against rampant sexism, some apparently still live in a totally different era.
Take Alexander J A Cortes for example who, as a self-proclaimed motivational speaker that helps “optimise your life’s performance”, took it upon himself in 2019 to write an explainer list for women to tell them “how to be beautiful”.
Brace yourself, because the list not only includes “being thin”, but also “wearing pink and feminine colours”, “being sensual” and “loving men”.
This is not a joke, I repeat, this is not a joke.
Cortes further fuels the fire by adding a link to his newsletter about how to be "more feminine", and continues with other shocking remarks that include "you can fix this by working out and going to the gym and unfatting yourself" and "if you show them [women] this list and they become angry, that lets you know that they are harpies that you never want to breed with".
The thread is so shocking, you don't even know whether to laugh or not.
But the so-called motivational speaker (who seems to be doing everything but being motivational) was clearly messing with the wrong crowd, as women and men alike took to Twitter to fire back and it went gloriously.
@AJA_Cortes https://t.co/HIHlUCYvxm— Off-brand Liz Lemon (@Off-brand Liz Lemon) 1550846016
@SonOfGodAndMan @MaxKennerly @AJA_Cortes Like a bag of bleached flour careening downward off the top shelf.— feminist next door (@feminist next door) 1550868573
@emrazz @SonOfGodAndMan @MaxKennerly @AJA_Cortes This discount bin Jason Mamoa sure seems to think he’s found the secret to life— RenegadeDisciple (@RenegadeDisciple) 1550872534
@AJA_Cortes Thanks for the tip, Walmart Fabio!!!— Madame Lifewaster Jr. 😐💀 (@Madame Lifewaster Jr. 😐💀) 1550796009
@Muay_Sailor @ViciousVRod @elunatyk @AJA_Cortes Woolworths Fabio. cheap, unattractive, and 50 years out of date.— shoegazing scheißhaus (@shoegazing scheißhaus) 1550925773
@AJA_Cortes How to be a tool - Write tweets like this The End— Ghost Dog (@Ghost Dog) 1550841847
@AJA_Cortes Here’s a photo that real women would better appreciate... https://t.co/9aTL00DFJB— Princess Snide (@Princess Snide) 1550846809
@AJA_Cortes Damn and here I was thinking my wife was beautiful without like any of these— Efran🥒 (@Efran🥒) 1550789484
@AJA_Cortes Well I for one am absolutely shattered that my dream of having a man who looks like he uses his own te… https://t.co/wHfkbYFZ1u— The Sassiest Semite (@The Sassiest Semite) 1550801549
@AJA_Cortes You’re single. Aren’t You?— Brofucius: The Vaccinated Nemesis of Idiots. (@Brofucius: The Vaccinated Nemesis of Idiots.) 1550829404
@AJA_Cortes you’re really letting men down here. like i cant even comprehend how someone could tweet this https://t.co/rzVM7JdzWm— lucy (@lucy) 1550973333
It's time to take your sexism somewhere else.
This article was originally published in March 2019.