I’m not able to be so blunt. Are you sure it’s only 50% ?
sadly our challenge is compounded by most girls being brought up on a never ending soup of fairy stories of one type or another. Even the adventurous girls, the smart girls or the ones with plenty of talent are fed a diet that involves men as pretty nice charming or a toad that can turn into a prince or a beast that is a disguised prince. Look at movies, advertisements, stories. They all spin that line
i think that men simply do not understand the extent of female socialisation just as we probably do not fully understand men.
I have a theory that our problem is further compounded by the fact that the first female men encounter is their mother. Put aside those who are beyond incompetent and think about the fact this woman is in the role of life giver, nurturer. She feeds, bathers, takes care of that baby boy. She fusses over them, tries to keep them from crying or distress. That becomes the archetype. Maybe if the mother fails in that she breeds the beginnings of misogyny as well.
Maybe if the father is incompetent or useless it prevents full and healthy separation from the mother as an emerging man
almost all my friends, including those who are apparently happily partnered, say that they would not bother with repartnering if their husbands died before them. They simply find them a lot of effort Men may well find the same which suggests another issue entirely - our social structures aren’t that suited to humans
btw why do misogynists partner? Why do these damaged men seek partners ?
