I’m curious to know what, as men, you really struggle with in life that women couldn’t truly understand because they’re not a man.
For example, as a woman, our reproductive health isn’t taken seriously or our constant need to assess our surroundings.
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I’m curious to know what, as men, you really struggle with in life that women couldn’t truly understand because they’re not a man.
For example, as a woman, our reproductive health isn’t taken seriously or our constant need to assess our surroundings.
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The pressure is always on us to make the first move….not easily done.
My emotional needs. Maybe it’s just online bs, but I’m under the impression that women do not think we men are capable of feeling emotions beyond anger and lust.
We also have feelings of joy, sadness, envy, etc. We are just conditioned to not show them.
The loneliness that a man may feel if he’s spent a long time without any meaningful positive interaction with a woman his age is something fundamentally different than the loneliness of not having friends in general male/female, and no less valid.
This is not about whose fault it is or isn’t or anything, something I strongly believe is that nobody is owed a relationship. I think there’s just a fundamental misunderstanding of what it feels like, when some women say “why can’t you just talk to guy friends? Why isn’t that enough?” And it’s often misinterpreted as a man who just wants sex or just wants a girlfriend for shallow reasons.
By reproductive health do you mean actual reproductive health or just abortion?
Walking that fine line of being seen as a threat or being seen as boring/meek. Lots of women just dismiss anything we might open up about in good faith because it upsets them in one way or another. And even if it doesn’t, a lot of the time what support we get is lip service or has some sort of asterisk on it. There’s so many posts from women wanting to understand us in one way or another, but they want it to be something that’s in their favor or something like that. Most of the time we aren’t trying to lash out/wound, us being direct is the most honest and good faith choice we have.
Giving a fuck about her friends’ problems.
Her problems, I’m all ears. I don’t even point out the obvious solutions, because I know I’m just meant to listen etc etc.
But her friends’ problems … OMFG! My eyes glaze over. I couldn’t be less interested.
Being sometimes seen as dispensable. Like our value only comes from what we provide and if we can’t do it then we don’t matter. I want to think there’s more to me than what I can do for others but at times I feel that’s all anyone else cares about.