The fact that men require the kind of good validstion I was referring to to come from women they are romantically attracted to is why they aren't getting it.

They get it in their heads that it doesn't have any significance unlessnit comes from a pretty girl who has "chosen" him and thus given him status and notoriety amongst his peers (other men).

In other words, they ignore the validation they donget because it doesn't figure into their egotistical calculus of what matters.

Then they get resentful. Then they mentally and physically check out of being part their their community and go hide in their Mama's basement. Then they get more resentful because, shocker, there's not any women coming to hang out with them in Mama's basement while they sit up on the internet participating in misogyny one way or another. Then it's whining and crying, bitching and moaning about how life is so unfair to them and it's all women's fault.

Time and again, that's the way the pattern goes.

When you exclude the social affections or notice of everyone else, you wind up ignored and overlooked by everyone else. Duh.

We all remember the Eagles song "Desperado", right? What was that second line again? It was a self reflective question of some sort as I recall. How'd it go? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?