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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I've never felt that it's been any more difficult to be a male than not. I've never felt collectively repressed, or held to a higher standard.
I've certainly screwed up many, many times yet have managed to prevent myself from being or becoming a loser-- I think maybe you're merely extrapolating your own personal experience onto everyone. Additionally, I think maybe you are again, simply projecting these personal torments of yours onto everyone else.
By chance of birth, I was born of a gender that has never known a systematic, collective or historical repression against it simply because of that gender-- that alone has made my life much easier than it otherwise may have been.
"two things I've never met a woman who truly understood..."
Possibly meeting more people would be in order, as that's certainly not the case for many men, myself included...
Good luck!