I feel like men who have never been around very many women, let alone wives and mothers, have some very off ideas about what attitudes we hold, etc, yet are very certain that they are correct in their judgements. What are they even basing this on? Podcasts? One women they met? Urban legends?

@ladyloodeeloo many are saying, but I'm not sure where it's coming from either x.com/i/status/20543…

@theemmacasey @ladyloodeeloo A thing that’s come up repeatedly in conversations with fellow middle-aged dads is that we all had formative social connections with adult women—aunts, older cousins, church ladies— who were neither romantic considerations nor authority figures (like moms and teachers).

@theemmacasey @ladyloodeeloo Coupled with smaller family sizes meaning lots of guys don’t grow up with sisters, either, I suspect this is a large part of the failure to connect and complete inability to model female motivation. Also they don’t read books, and certainly not books about women.