To like someone is to judge them in an evaluative sense. You are making a judgement or an evaluation about them.

And here's the problem. You're making this quality of 'like' be about their identity as a man rather than their personhood as a human being.

In this case, it's positive quality of 'like'. And there's still that issue of the word 'like' being so ambiguous as to be next to meaningless, especially in this context.

But a positive bias is still a bias.

You don't have a problem spotting the issue with bias when that bias is negative.

But you're okay with bias when it's positive?

Every positive bias comes with a reciprocal negative bias. Especially with identity. That negativity may show up against another group or within the group, but it's going to be there.

That's just how biases work.

So when you sit here and promote a positive identity bias in a professional setting, you're telling me you're okay with or blind to the negative bias that will inherently create that will either be detrimental to male clients as individuals or against non men in that same professional setting.

I DO NOT consider that to be professional conduct. Especially in mental health and therapeutic fields.

And I'll tell you flat out, right here and now, I would not trust you as a patient. Obviously. As a woman, but even if I was a man, I would not trust you.