• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    I’ve had two relationships with women immediately go downhill after I cried in front of them. It was like someone flipped a switch and turned off any physical attraction they had to me.

    Can absolutely confirm this, myself, on a personal level.

    Never let them see you genuinely vulnerable unless you want to drive them away, or want that to be weaponized against you at some point in the future. Sometimes even both, but never neither.

    Only ever provide curated vulnerabilities that offer of themselves no true vulnerability, but satisfies any desire they may have to see vulnerability in you. Like being distressed at the sight of an unknown dead dog on the side of the road, for example. Clean, simple, controllable, and superficial.

    Violate this tenet at your own psychological risk.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      2 hours ago

      This is the way of things.

      I’m not saying it’s right, just, or how it should be, but in my experience, yes, this.

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        I’m not saying it’s right, just, or how it should be,

        What makes it infinitely more worse is that almost all women fully and absolutely deny this happens, even when behaving exactly like this.

        It’s why such near-ubiquitous behaviour - and women’s hypocritical denial of its existence - is widely documented within both redpill and blackpill writings, and is one of the core reasonings behind MGTOW.

        Such overwhelmingly predictable behaviours are what make those philosophies so devastatingly effective and compelling long before anything even mildly misogynistic crops up… after all, facts and evidence that survive tests of disproof speak volumes. These philosophies would have no reason to exist if behaviours and double standards like this weren’t everywhere, and all it takes for a man to see them properly is for their societal brainwashing to be disrupted.

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        It sounds depressive.

        It’s how “toxic masculinity” is forced upon men against their will.

        Do we want to be sensitive and vulnerable? Sure!
        Do we want partners that can accept that sensitivity and vulnerability? Of course!!

        But when the vast majority of women do not do as they say, or say as they do, the calculus becomes massively brutal and clear-cut: either cram that shit down to where it will never see the light of day, or see it emotionally/sexually revolt our partner and possibly even make them leave.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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          TBH I think “toxic masculinity” is a shitty term for the concept. It feels like calling forced female gender roles “toxic femininity”.