• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The logic is men who are so emotionally crippled that any display of empathy or affection threatens their fragile sense of masculinity and undermines their false sense of worth as solely a financial provider, which feeds into their fears of what they’ve missed, so they ridicule and insult as a defense mechanism. Or something.

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      5 months ago

      That would explain the reaction from men but not similar reactions from women, which are even more common in my experience.