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2 min readNov 28, 2022

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That wasn't the point you made, but okay.

The argument is still flawed. Men look to other men on how to behave, not women.

What women want and desire is irrelevant for a few reasons. It assumes young women of that age know what they want any more than young men do. They don't. They're just following the same Hollywood script for the most part that young men are. Historically, that script has come from middle aged white men, though it's getting more diverse now.

It also assumes that women of any age are a monolith. We are not. You have your Florence Nightingales, your diy man mechanic, traditionalists, sugar babies, divas, hippies, queen bees, companions, groupies, builders, home bodies, travellers, and so forth and so on. Each will eventually choose men who complement them as best they can, even if they do sow their oats and try on a few different personas and male stereotypes first. A woman who is a companion in her nature is not generally going to be attracted to a sports jock unless they okay the same sport. She'd be missing out on the companionship she needs and craves if he's always off with the boys looking for a pickup soccer game at the park while she's left always taking care of the kids. Sure, she might date one or two when she's young to figure out that's not her guy, but early dating types is rarely who most of us end up with. Eventually you have to grow up.

All this "talk" in media is mostly that. Just talk. It's monetized. They make money off people's desperation or feelings worthlessness because they haven't found a partner yet, or are having relationship trouble. These people are influencers. They haven't gotten shit figured out any more than the rest of us. They're selling a scam and a fiction.

Go outside in the real world and take a good look around. You see all types of people with all types of people. There are no absolutes in relationships.

Don't let influencers who get paid by you thinking you have a problem and then subsequently actually creating one for yourself with trash thinking mess with your head. You'll just make yourself miserable and allow yourself to be distracted by noise instead of building the life that you want.

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