The following excerpt is taken from a GAG user's post. It is a GENDER-SWAPPED VERSION of what she wrote about men not taking responsibility for anything in modern society.
MOST OF THIS I DID NOT WRITE THIS MYSELF. But hell, I might as well have. The only thing I changed around was the gender, pronouns, and a few arguments and examples. You tell me if it sounds familiar to you, or not.
"WHY DO WOMEN HAVE SUCH A HARD TIME TAKING ACCOUNTABILITY?"
As a young man, it is blatantly obvious that women of all ages have a hard time taking accountability for anything. I talk to my friends all the time and we all notice how women would rather blame all men for everything that happens to them and to other men, rather than calling themselves or other women out.
This is especially true when it comes to relationships and sex. A man was falsely accused of rape? "Maybe he shouldn't have pressured her so hard."
A man abused by his ex? "Maybe he shouldn't have been so weak or toxic."
A man was cheated on and treated horribly by a girl? "He should've treated her better."
Often times this is said with little to no knowledge about how these women are like behind closed doors, but under the assumption that all women are upfront and honest about who they are in the very beginning of relationships. It's always men's fault and never talked about how a LOT of women, I'd argue AT LEAST half, are just very sh*tty people.
Now we see women today whining about the modern dating scene and how there are 'no more good men left' while they simultaneously push hookup culture, have astronomically high standards they themselves cannot meet, and that they want men to be more dominant and traditional, while also expecting them to be subservient and weak and obey their every order or else they're "toxic, misogynist, or incels."
A man's role in current society is to do 95% of all the work in relationships while receiving less than 50% of the benefits. Men are expected to be high earners and to want masculine, aggressive, "strong and independent women" who earn their own money, but still have to pay for them on every day, wine and dine them, and buy them expensive presents for every holiday and birthday. Women nowadays want all the benefits of modern female independence, as well as all the benefits of traditionalism, while having none of the responsibilities or negatives that come with either.
You can't want a traditional dominant breadwinner of a man if you're not being a traditional female. And then blame men and "toxic masculinity" because you want to half-ass relationships by putting in the bare minimum while also expecting maximum reward simply because you have a vag ina and two X chromosomes.
Women take no accountability for anything and will constantly pin issues on everyone else but them. Most men have met more than one woman in their lives who love to claim they're 'strong and independent,' but take no responsibility for ANYTHING in their lives that goes wrong. It's always a man's fault. Or Trump. Or 'patriarchy.' Or anyone else but them.
It seems to be really relevant now as women's mental health stats continue to worsen and studies show how modern women are more depressed, unhappy, and unfilled now than ever before in history, despite having more power, wealth, and independence now than in any other point in history, far surpassing the average man.
Yet they STILL blame men for not wanting to be taken advantage of and used only for their resources. Or they'll shame men for not being into obese, ugly, slutty, or feminist women by attacking them and calling them 'misogynists' and incels' because 'how dare men have standards too!'
Now it's men's fault why women's mental health is declining because they don't want relationships or stability and can't blame anyone else but themselves despite claiming to be so 'independent' all the time.
As a man, what are truly benefits of marrying a woman today?
So once again, MOST of this, I did not write. All I did was gender swap certain words, pronouns, and complaints. But as I said, it certainly rings true for me. And a lot of men, as well.
Do you think the original female author of this, has a valid point about men?
Or is she just delusional and has no idea how hard men have it nowadays?
Besides this author mirroring a gender-swapped version of my (and many other men's) thoughts about women, the reason I was intrigued to write this, is because it brings up a valid question: Are men and women really more alike than we give ourselves credit for?
I mean, some women do like to point out how badly they've been used and mistreated by men. And as a male, I have had an equal amount of mistreatment by bad females out there, as well. One could argue that "good people often run across a lot of bad people." Or, one could argue it's not the same, since women do all the choosing and have all the leverage in relationships, while men have relatively little to no power in the dating/relationship world and have to demonstrate value in order to find someone and do all the chasing.
It can't be ignored that women have more power and leverage than men in the dating and relationship world. But many complaints across both genders seem to be the same; a lot of good people ending up with bad people. And sure, many of these supposed "good people" are actually not good and just lack introspection and accountability for their own relationship and partner choices. But it surely can't be all of us "just choosing a**holes every time," can it?
Anyway, I have no real conclusion to this. I just thought it brought up an interesting point. Assuming the female author of this original post wasn't just trolling or gender-swapping a male post from someone else, it really does make me think many we have more in common with each other, than we think. Beyond all the hookup culture, simping, celebration of sluttiness and e-whoring, and loose empty sex, maybe there are just a lot of good men and women left wandering aimlessly, unable to find another quality partner among the sluts, whores, f*ckboys, and Chads.
I'm willing to give the author the benefit of the doubt and assume she is a once-good woman who's been soured by bad relationships and ISN'T just an entitled narcissist only choosing Chads who don't care about her. Because I can empathize with her, regardless how accurate or valid her complaints about men may or may not be. I mean, I can't complain about the same thing and then only call her wrong for it because she's a female complaining about men being the same way.
I dunno; I'm rambling now... I just think maybe, just MAYBE men and women may have a lot more in common than we ever think. Or maybe, the author was just full of crap. Who knows? You discuss it.
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