Bullshit. I'm not projecting all men as being the same. I'm correctly identifying a philosophical dichotomy between men on the dating scene. Those who pursue tactics and those who build relationship and communication skills.

You don't hear this rhetoric coming from men who pursue relationship and communication skills because they are able to acquire successful relationships, usually quite easily, and maintain them. This is widely known phenomenon and readily observed by stepping outside one's own house and looking around.

By the very nature of the conversation, we are not talking about all men. We never were. It's impossible. It's a gaslighting dodge to suggest otherwise. An equivocation and a deflection. An attempt to dump more work onto someone else to fix a problem they didn't create and that man is actively still creating. It's akin to shoving a bucket at someone and demanding they bail water out of a sinking boat while you continue to drill holes through the bilge.

Come on, man. Come on.

Well in the end, that's your choice, but you disrespect yourself by going there. No one will take you seriously. You've advertised in flashing neon signage that you're either incapable or just not interested in having a real discussion. No one wants more of your labor. We're done with that.

This narrative you're telling yourself about women not understanding rejection is also bullshit. It affects women differently because it's not as individuated, but we know rejection our whole lives. Young women cut themselves and develop eating disorders or other forms of self harm including attempting suicide because of the forms of patriarchal rejection they experience from the time they are very little girls. Men don't have the market cornered on rejection like the narrative suggests.