Men chase women.
Women choose men.
Ultimately women are the gatekeepers. Only exception is the top 10% of men (income/wealth, looks, education etc) that can pull almost any woman they want.
Sometimes women get fooled....yet women also claim to have superior intuition and situational awareness.
Either men are smarter, more clever master manipulators.....OR.....women decide to overlook obvious red flags for the sexy, 3-legged bum. Men don't suddenly become shyt bags. Their base personality is always there. It's just a matter of whether you choose to listen to those instincts.
Women can identify creepy ugly men in 0.05 seconds. Turn that creep into a handsome man and suddenly their instincts disappear. I don't "blame" women, but ladies have to be honest with themselves. The good man that's stable and solid versus the wild man that's fun but problematic.....in RPG gaming terms, women tend to "min-max" when picking men. Sometimes it's better to get the guy whose a 6 or 7 in multiple categories over the breh that's a "10" in some ways and a "2" in other ways.
Great post but you lost me at the bold
the behaviors adopted are now the new normal. Attention seeking, overly emotional ‘standing on business’, being ‘petty’. These are concepts that are for women, but have seemlessly been normalized for men. A man can be feminine without being feminine. 50 Cent comes to mind
