(December 9, 2013 at 3:03 pm)LastPoet Wrote: There is a cultural bs that boys only turn into men if they are 'players', fuck many women, that needs to be adressed first. Notice that I do not condemn men that like to seduce, flirt with women and have many consenting partners (women can do that too), its the cultural pressure put into men since young ages that they have to validate their sexuality by objectifying women.
This cultural factor is also one that leads to several cases of rape, despite those rapists knowing they are hurting their victims. They are educated, but they do it anyway.
Just my 2 cents.
Another level of that cultural teaching is that men are taught to ignore feelings. Real men don't have feelings! Men get looked down on for crying or for showing compassion or sympathy. If a man is hurt, he gets told to "man up" and ignore it. If men are taught so much to ignore feelings, even their own, how are we supposed to expect them to have any empathy for the feelings of others?
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama