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MineralMan

(146,254 posts)
Wed Apr 25, 2018, 02:59 PM Apr 2018

How men learn to get along with women.

They have mothers. They have sisters. Their sisters have friends.

They go to school and meet other children of both sexes.

They pay attention to how people react to them from an early age.

At some point, as boys, they get it that all those cootie-laden girls are going to be an important part of their lives, somehow.

They make friends with girls, as well as with other boys.

Then puberty happens. If they learned from their earlier experiences and from significant women in their lives, they end up dating girls their own age.

From them, they learn, or should learn, what works and doesn't work in relationships. They apply those lessons as they get older, and find real partners in life. Oh, yeah, sex is part of all that, too, but it's a natural part if you know how to get along.

That's how men learn that stuff. Some men. Most men, really, to one degree or another.

Others never seem to get it. They become angry adults who take out their frustration by hating women. That never leads to any good results. Such men are very dangerous, it seems to me.

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