Enyinnaya@enyinna_
You know, I was recently thinking about our coming-of-age years. Many of the games girls played on us were completely unwarranted.
With guys, you could at least tell what many of them were after. Maybe they wanted sex. Or maybe they simply didn't want to be used for their money. So they became players. Some could afford to juggle several women at once.
But with girls, a lot of what they did just seemed random. They'd screenshot a guy's DM and send it to people or post it on the Internet. They'd make plans for a date with you. You'd follow up, get dressed, sometimes even arrive at the venue, and then they'd stop answering their phones. “Oh sorry for the other day, my elder sister’s child had a cough.”
They'd mess guys around for no real reason. Walk past a guy with a group, tell a funny secret about him, and laugh at him with their friends. There need not be quarrel. You hadn't done anything. It was often just about making themselves feel desirable. Over time, I think many guys simply concluded, "So this is what pursuing women looks like. You just get screwed over until you find one who’d still dictate terms for you." Many men acknowledged it as part of the experience. While some eradicated any chance for emotional investment, others developed what I'd call a defeatist mindset. They accepted women as they are and believed nothing could be done for them to improve.
Most guys fell into that mindset because their egos were tied to their success with women. The more they saw other guys with girlfriends, the more they felt that being single meant they were losing as young men. So they tolerated all kinds of rubbish just to avoid being alone and to appear successful in the eyes of other people.
The women benefited from that dynamic too. Many would mock single guys. If you've ever been a guy at university or in a neighbourhood who's simply focused on his own life—not constantly chasing women—you'll know what I mean. Girls would literally call you gay or make fun of you for being a loner.
It was almost as if everyone was reinforcing the same message. Women implied that if you were alone, something was wrong with you. Men implied that if you were alone, you weren't a top guy. So a lot of young men did everything they could to avoid being single, simply because of how it looked to other people.
That was the reality. Then, over time, something changed. Some of the women who had spent years overplaying their hand with men started going online to complain that there were no decent men left. At the same time, there were still men who believed that having a woman was central to their masculinity. Since they already thought something was wrong with a man who couldn't get a woman, they naturally became allies of these women. But they weren’t really desired by these women—at least, not without an enormous expense.
I watched this dynamic unfold and thought about everything else that came with it: the humiliation culture I've spoken about before, the money men were expected to spend, and the fact that no matter how much you invested, she could leave without any considerable investment—and people would generally support her. At some point, you simply realise, "This isn't for me." You can still talk to women. You can still enjoy their company. You can still flirt or have a good time. But you also realise that you don't have to participate in that whole system.
Let them convince themselves of whatever and however, and try to gaslight you—it’s all good. Life is a trade off: you can choose your sufferings. Commit your life to what is good, beautiful and truthful, and hold firmly against the world around you.