Guy here. Not sure where you live that you’re able to experience equal privilege in a way where both genders don’t feel what some of the other 8 billion people on the planet feel. To shed some light from a guys perspective on your question; women feel like they’re prey. It’s not that men don’t feel the same also. Women just feel it more due to hard facts. The average man is more physically capable than the average women meaning the women do not feel safe enough to venture if they wished to do so. Does that make sense to you?

Sorry society couldn’t provide you the safety you deserve meme queen. Wouldn’t want to feel like that if I were a female. Wouldn’t want my mother or sisters feeling like that.

I did say that both parties no doubt experience this but it’s more common to see men being held more accountable of being emotionally open as a negative trait.

I’m still going to take away what you’ve said and think about it for a while. I can’t just totally dismiss what you’re saying! Feels like something I need to ponder on a bit lol

Ermm.. I don’t know what you mean by bringing up gaslighting and it’s byproducts but I don’t doubt that’s some people’s unfortunate experience and I do agree both genders meet bad people sure but

It’s kind of a privilege issue because like I said through my experience I wasn’t taken seriously until I acted to be strong and stable. That’s the baseline of all men generally but they cannot be anything less than.

I’m not claiming that every women hates vulnerable men as you say but for me over two years I dated 6 different women all very different to each other. Different race/backgrounds, ages, occupations and personalities. The only thing in common that they all had were gorgeous smiles. They all seemed to be put off by me saying “I’m kind of struggling at the moment”. It wasn’t until the third year I thought I’d try the opposite that I had better luck. You get me?

To be honest anytime I’ve opened up to a women expecting to be seen as a male with emotional awareness it hasn’t worked out. That happened for two whole years after a breakup. I tried the opposite by not speaking about my emotions and what I feel inside and it worked a lot more than being emotionally vulnerable but now I feel like I am being neglected(?) or not true to myself because I portrait an emotion other than what I’m really feeling.

My point is guys don’t have the choice to be treated emotionally equal. It’s most common to expect men to be strong and stable individuals when in reality it’s only getting harder to be so. I can’t accept men being emotional as a chosen fear. That would be like saying women choose to fear guys who look threatening. It varies too far left and too far right to be a fair statement.

Can I ask where you live?

The ease they have to gain muscle and tone abdomen. That’s awesome you think that that’s the case for the opposite gender.

Flaccid abdominal area.

Happy to help with that! I’ll message you now