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I previously mentioned how I'd been taught my entire life that everything men do is amazing and superior, and how the reminder of that fallacy is a source of constant disappointment for me.
The deeper truth is that I absolutely adore men, I see their potential and their power and what they have to offer... but because of the state of our society and how things have played out over the generations, men have had such a low bar for "success" that they don't have a need to fulfill their own potential and be as great and powerful as they can be. Ultimately, as a result, they are the biggest losers, but we lose too. We all do. It's a goddamn tragedy.
I’ve been contending with this lately too. It’s so easy to fall into the “men are incapable of love/I hate men” camp as a self-protective mechanism against fear and hurt, but that only serves to impair my ability to discern properly, which is the tool FDS teaches us to use for maximizing benefits.