Haha. Yes, but ultimately all the best filters are gonna be sorrowful and dispiriting because you were hoping for a more felicitous and auspicious answer.

Damn. That patriarchal conditioning runs deep doesn't it?

Feel sad for those men, not me for receiving a moment of off the cuff authenticity, even if it's not what I wanted. (If that's what you meant by sad) I'm always going to be okay. I've always known I'm enough and okay by myself.

But these men had a chance to transcend conditioning and learn their worth. They had a chance to be more than disposable, to matter, to be okay as themselves.

And they didn't even see it.