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RantMen are more 'honest and straightforward' than women.
I feel like all my life I've been told that men are more 'honest and straightforward' (making women more complicated and deceptive).
I think I've always accepted there is some truth in this, I'm very introverted and have often found social interactions with certain women overwhelming (there is often this feeling that a lot is going on 'under the surface'). Men seem simpler at least at first glance. Conversations don't feel as loaded with hidden meanings.
But it has recently occurred to me that this simply isn't true. If you read Why Does He Do That you quickly realise abusive men have multiple often complicated and deceptive strategies to control women. Such as becoming a loved pillar of the community so that no-one will believe what goes on behind closed doors. Going to therapy to weaponise 'therapy-talk'. The lows of an abusive episodes interspersed with the highs of love bombing to make the relationship akin to an addictionfor the abused women. And so on. Even weaponised incompetence (never learning how the washing machine works) is a strategy for making sure the housework always falls to the woman.
Women think that these men are too emotionally dense to understand that their behaviour is hurting them but abusive men know how hurtful they are being and don't care because it benefits them.
And then look online, where men try and say gorgeous models and actresses are ugly due to some small flaw, in an attempt to make women devalue themselves in the 'sexual marketplace' (ugh).
Whole religions have been arranged seemingly with the main purpose of bemefitting men. It isn't an accident that in the major religions God is always male, and women are always uniquely sinful creatures who need keeping in their place.
I feel like the image of men are simple minded doofuses has been carefully maintained as part of some giant gaslighting project.