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Our Burden as Men to Be Strong

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By: Varoon Rajah

burden as men to be strong
We typically advise against men opening up about their weaknesses to women they date. But won’t showing a little insecurity strengthen a relationship? No, and here’s why.

As a follow up to my article on the right and wrong ways to be vulnerable, a reader was curious why it’s important not to be vulnerable about certain things in your own life when dealing with women.

The anonymous reader commented on vulnerability below:

“So the thesis of the article is that it’s best not to be vulnerable unless it’s occasional and share something that you can easily attribute to something external? I wouldn’t be able to talk about what a struggle my adolescent life is because of depression? Or how my Asian parents did a poor job raising me, and it led to me having low self-esteem? We really can’t share our past traumas under any circumstance without losing our women? We have to pretend like everything is okay, and we never had any struggle in our lives past or current even if that’s not the case? What if you just make it seem like it was in the past, but you’re a different man now, and the only reason you’re actually telling her is because it feels good to share it with someone else instead of keeping it bottled in? I feel like men constantly have to do a lot of posturing just for the sake of attracting and keeping women interested in them whereas women don’t really have that concern.”

On the boards the other day, I read two similar comments about how unfair and inferior it is to be a male in today’s society.

The first comment:

“Women date up. Men date down. Men have to fear that their penis doesn’t [measure] up. Women can be relatively skinny and have unlimited abundance with[out] having to work for it. Men have to work to be providers. Women have so many options that they can choose and compare between looks, social status, wealth, dick size, confidence, and alpha male [status]. Women only seem to compete for looks, sometimes status, and only provide pussy. Being feminine does not seem to add any additional value to our lives. Yet we have to compete on various levels of value just to be good enough. Social media and Tinder has made 5/10s with unlimited abundance.”

HOW IS THIS FAIR?

And the second comment:

“Men are expected to give women pleasure, strength, attention, validation, and security to prevent them from cheating, etc. Yet, women basically give nothing in return besides pussy. That is what bothers me the most. Not only do women reap more rewards in the sexual marketplace, they don’t even have to try as much.”

Is this really how it works?

In this article, I want to dive in further and discuss what this means. I’ll clarify and expand on my response to the comments about the article.

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James D's picture

Hi Varoon,

This is eye opening to me.
Being "strong" has always been somehow vague to me but now it makes much more sense.
Could you expand on how to develop that mental toughness?

Cheers!

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Varoon Rajah's picture

This is a pretty important topic I've wanted to cover for some time, so I'll write a series on it.

ILikeSteak's picture

I think in the case of the commenter who wanted to share his traumatic past, it's only an issue to share that because his past weakness is actually still very much something in the present. If a girl heard him say all that, she would immediately interpret it as "I'm still not really confident in myself". In other words his "past" is not really in the past at all, women care about what you are now and all he's doing is revealing what he is currently. But if he were to get over it completely by other means, he could share all the vulnerability of his past in a way that shows he really doesn't give a shit about his past and is actually strong in the present moment. Then it wouldnt seem like a weakness at all in the girls mind. Just my take on it. Would you agree Varoon?

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Varoon Rajah's picture

ILS - yes, you're absolutely right - it's the frame and present moment, that matters the most to women.

Take a look at guys like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, etc - they haven't had the smoothest childhoods and upbringings, and yet they're super strong in the present moment and have (had) very passionate love lives with many women going for them.

They're also too busy conquering the world to care about their childhood traumas and problems - and if a woman were to ask about it, I'm guessing the response would be something along the frame of "are you kidding me, girl? I have way way way more important things to focus on right now."

If you're truly strong, you're just not even worried about this traumatic past stuff. And, if it does bug you, you also know how to deal with it, meaning you're truly moved on and are comfortable with your past. Convey that to a woman, and you should be OK, yeah.

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