NYT - “The Trouble of Wanting Men.”

A month ago, someone on here posted an article from the NYT, “Men, where have you gone? Please come back.”

Here we are a month later, and women still don’t get it. Here is another similar article posted two days ago.

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In the very first sentence of the article, here come the red flags, “The stranger arrived at the bar before I did, as I intended him to.” As I intended him to. So … it doesn’t seem like there was really a mutuality in the making of the plans. It was more about puppeteering and control on her part. Okay.

Then the final quoted sentence of the second paragraph,
“Back at my place he was a little shy, I thought, or a little out of practice, but I felt he wanted me, which was what I wanted — to be organized and oriented by his desire, as though it were a point on the dark horizon, strobing.”

The last part of that sentence is the worst. She doesn’t want a mutually beneficial relationship. She wants to be worshipped. Men have been doing that for the last 60 years, and I think a lot of us just don’t really think we want that anymore. Perhaps that’s why the guy was acting shy and hesitant.

The article goes on and on. Talking about her meeting with her girlfriends, about how some men are ghosting them. The author of the article mourns for the modern man, the “poor widdle fraidy cat boo boo.”

Yeah. This kind of condescension and cynicism will not make anything better for you. The tide is turning, and they don’t like it.