@georgia @happymoomoo It has some bullshit, but also some good points like "Also, we are told again and again, that not only should men not expect anything of us (not even common decency), but that we should leave any one who places any demands (or requests) on us."Not giving someone a benefit or respectul treatment means not getting it in return, and complaining about this being the case is insane entitlement. People do things for others out of only two reasons: profit or loyalty. Only the latter one is meaningful in the long term, the former requires you to always be the highest bidder, which is impossible. Men naturally understand loyalty and value it more than profit if you prove that you'll reciprocate, which is the bit you tend to leave out of your thought process in your regular "it's only men that care about body/x/y like that" statement. That is the case if no loyalty is established, and it works exactly the same way with roles reversed, just that instead of body it's power. If you want to base your interactions in profit rather than loyalty you'll lose to time, always.The "don't try to compete with men" bit is also on point, men will generally just let you have the thing you want if you ask, if you insist on competing you'll be treated like a man, and women don't realize what that entails and all the unspoken protections it removes. It's like how in the wild west, not carrying a gun meant you were very unlikely to be shot as it was a very serious crime, but if you strapped one on your belt, it was likely you would be shot, as every other gunman treated you as one. It's how you end up "threatened" or "afraid" of men, because you decided you wanted to initiate hostility with them, and they will always respond to provocation.It also leads to the issue of feeling disvantaged in the competition, because let's be honest, a woman with a glued beard will have as much ease in competing against natural born men as a man with a skirt and plastic boobs will have competing against natural born women.Treat men with genuine honesty and don't be dismissive and you'll get the exact same in return, they'll find it a welcome break from the expectation and thus consider it worth the effort to be positive to you. Be dismissive and you can be sure they won't give a crap about you, they don't need to, as you can't use extortion against them when it really matters.The widespread belief that men get from their interactions with women is that they don't care for their feelings or issues yet want their own issues looked after, much like the belief women seem to learn is that men care more about them as objects than as people. Both sides think the other don't see them as real people, act in accordance to the belief, and sabotage themselves.Ignoring these basic rules of interpersonal relations is how the two genders are now fighting like retarded kids instead of getting along, benefitting the people that are actually trying to screw them instead of themselves. Take me as an example if you want, since I'm as clear a case of having 0 empathy for people that don't show any to me as they come, yet treat you as a friend, as evidenced by my typing of this instead of typing "lol get fucked feminist". It's the same with almost everyone who isn't stupid. Unlike with say, commies, this isn't a conflict that can or should be fixed by exterminating the other side, we're mutually dependant and no amount of rethoric on either side will undo that reality.Of course none of this applies to idiots of either gender, avoid those, they're not real people and they're the ones that got us into this mess in the first place.