Sep 1, 2018 · 1 min read
Thank you so much for this. Definitely helps me feel less crazy and frustrated when a straight guy can admit this. It’s also worth noting how the same culture that fosters and reinforces this attitude in men tricks women into being complacent—being nice, polite, pretty, and so forth makes you an ideal receptacle for men’s emotional baggage, especially sexual aggression—by reinforcing the message to women that if they’re not these things, then they’re worthless, which not coincidentally further fuels intense self-hatred from a young age.