• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    Do you enjoy being alone?

    Except that I am not alone. As I mentioned, I am married. 30 years with the same woman as of this year.

    What I wrote is direct, real-world experience dealing with many different women in many different capacities over the decades.

    Everyone does this. Everyone. If you’re about to say you don’t, you’re lying to yourself.

    Try being autistic. There are variants that experience almost no ego to speak of, where reactions are facts first regardless of how the person feels about something.

    Plus, mature men have learned that operating through emotion is a negative-sum game to themselves, and that the best tactic to dealing with anything that affects them personally is via facts, evidence, logic, and reason. That involving emotions at any initial stage causes significant societal backlash because a man demonstrating any significant emotions, especially vulnerable ones, is seen as a weak and unreliable man that cannot be trusted to support others.

    I won’t bother responding to the rest because it’s the world view of someone blinded by their own bitterness and anger.

    Ah, nice combination of sour grapes and an ad hominem. Not exactly the most original path, seeing as how often it’s used to shame men into silence, but it’s invariably the only tool left to those who have no possible counter-argument.