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Dear Women, Let’s Play Games
If you’ll pretend to be a damsel in distress, we’ll pretend it doesn’t matter
Despite advances in women’s rights, some things remain stubbornly the same…
Men still want to be perceived as strong, powerful, and tough minded.
Women still want to be perceived as attractive, loving, and desirable.
And while women are surpassing men in education, careers, and general wealth, they are playing a hypocritical game of saying one thing and doing the exact opposite.
Men are engaging in a similar ruse, insisting they’re looking for an equal partner yet continuing to approach women as sexual objects, often times with arrogance and grotesque misogyny.
Women say they want their man to be more emotionally available and less controlling yet insist on traits like physical strength, toughness, and sexual prowess in their boyfriends and spouses as baseline requirements.
Men say they want a strong, intelligent, woman who can be their equal yet still insist on traits like physical beauty, body type, and submissiveness as baseline requirements.
Many men don’t care if a woman makes more money than they do, or has a higher degree, or better career pathway, but society hasn’t found a way to brand a “house husband” as anything other than a…
