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Drake, You Know Being A 'Nice Guy' Doesn't Entitle You To A Woman's Body Or Time... Right?

If a man gives a woman a compliment, she doesn't HAVE to accept it.

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Everyone knows that Drake just dropped his album, "Scorpion." It just so happened to come out after Pusha T decided to drop the bomb on Drake's baby mama and child in his latest diss track. Rumors were flying around about whether the child is his or not, but the only thing I was thinking was, "What's Rihanna thinking about all of this?"

Now, if there's one thing we all know about Drake, it's that he falls too hard in love. I'm not into zodiac signs and reading birth charts too much anymore, but when I was, I found out that he was a Scorpio sun, and a Cancer moon. And being that he's a cancer moon, let's just say he's very emotional and can get manipulative when he's obsessed with something. And it's evident in all of his music and in his interactions with the women he has dated.

Drake's the epitome of the so-called nice guy... the one who promises not to be like the other f*ckboys out here, who won't cheat, who will buy their girl fancy things, and who will treat them like "queens."

And that's nice and all, but being a "nice guy" doesn't automatically put you in a relationship with a girl that you're obsessed with at the moment. Take the Texas school shooting that happened in May, for example.

The 17-year-old shooter at Santa Fe High School was known to be a "quiet, smart, and sweet boy." Similar to many other stories like this, the 17-year-old kept making advances at one girl in particular, who he liked. She, however, didn't feel the same way and repeatedly turned him down. Seven days later, he open-fired on his school and killed ten students, including the girl who turned him down.

There are so many stories like this one, and usually, the only thing people can say is, "Why couldn't the girls just go out with him?" Instead of blaming it on the perpetrator, the women who turn down the men are being blamed.

Women shouldn't have to live in a society where they fear for their life because they don't want to go out with someone.

I feel as though Drake really enables this idea that some men really have. Remember the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards and Drake basically confessed his love for Rihanna in front of the entire world?

Quite frankly, Rihanna said she was "uncomfortable" about the whole thing. Many Drake fans were upset that she wasn't acting as receptive to his compliments, but why does she have to? I'm sure Drake really is the "good guy" that he claims himself to be in his latest track from Scorpion, "8 Out Of 10," but that doesn't mean Rihanna has to be in love with him, too.

If a man gives a woman a compliment, she doesn't HAVE to accept it.

I feel like all of this really just stems from misogyny. Us women aren't here for a man's desire. We're our own people, too. It just makes me upset when people say that women HAVE to go out with men who are "nice guys." We aren't obliged to give them a shot if we don't like them, and men aren't entitled to our time. So many men think that just because they're nice, they supposed to get the girl they're obsessed over, but that's not the case. That's lowkey selfish. Doesn't the woman's opinion matter, too? If some men are really "so nice," wouldn't they take the woman's wants into account to?

Honestly, this mindset some men have is really manipulative and sad. At the end of the day, women are not entitled to a man's love because he thinks he's a nice guy. If a woman isn't interested in you, move on. It's not that hard, honestly. Men doing women favors don't grant them access to their bodies or their hearts. Drake's music is honestly the epitome of all the whining that comes from these "nice guys." I mean, look at almost all of the track listings from "Take Care."

The manipulation of women isn't going to get men very far in their relationship game, and the shootings that I mentioned don't bring much justice to the "nice guy" argument. Some men should just stop being whiny babies when they don't get what they want, but that's just my opinion.

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