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Bonobo

(29,257 posts)
6. Thank you for your great response
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 11:28 PM
Aug 2013

and no, you did not make a fool of yourself one bit.

I agree that men's problems are not due to the feminist movement, of course, but I think they tend to be hidden and men tend to be shamed for discussing men's issues as if, because women have it worse, we have no right to complain.

One issue that came out for me from your post was the relationship between body image and emotional pain.

As I mentioned above, so few can ever experience what it is to be desired. Rarely even do we receive much in the way of attention from the opposite sex (unless we look like Warren, that is ) nor do we get much in the way of complements.

Now, I can believe that women -beautiful women and maybe not so beautiful women can get TOO many to the point that it gets annoying. But surely it is easy to see that the LACK of being desired can also lead to emotional pain at most or at the least a feeling of being unwanted or unneeded physically.

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