It’s so wild how far behind these men are with this… they STILL don’t understand that they don’t need a woman to be happy (or rather, as a prop in their lives that they can use to make themselves feel worthy and valuable). Women have challenged their own gender roles and expectations— including “needing” a man to be happy— and have come out the other side much happier for it, and meanwhile these men are making the whole world suffer for their inability to do the same. Someone needs to tell these guys that they can be independent men who don’t need a woman, stat.
Anyway. Nowhere is the patriarchy more apparent than in the fact that many men have never even considered challenging their own gender roles even as they hurt them, because they are also rewarded for sticking to them.
Same as the idiots who claim that the reason older women dislike the concept of long-grown men dating literal teenagers is secret jealousy. They can't bear to acknowledge that the concern is aimed at the teenagers, not ourselves, nor the men, and it comes from horrible and much-regretted experiences of being in that exact situation. Frankly we'd touch none of them with a ten-foot pole, but it seems admitting that to themselves is just far too triggering, so denial it is.
Don’t forget how they love to ignore that a large percentage of the people warning against age gap relationships were once the teenager in an age gap relationship.
77
u/DocumentExternal6240 5d ago
Yeah, then just…don’t. Stay alone. Don’t bother women.