The power women hold over men is biological, psychological and social simultaneously. A manβs sense of self, his motivation, his productivity, his mental stability, his willingness to build anything or protect anything or sacrifice anything is disproportionately tied to the approval and attention and desire of women. Women do not typically collapse when men withdraw attention, men historically have done genuinely catastrophic things when women did.
Women have always been described as the weaker sex and I find that genuinely funny when you actually think about it for more than thirty seconds. Men are governed by a biological drive so consuming and so constant that it has been responsible for the collapse of careers, marriages, governments and dynasties across the entirety of recorded human history. The same men who built systems to control women were simultaneously being controlled by something they could not turn off and could not reason their way out of and could not stop making catastrophic decisions because of. The reason men control women is because women inherently hold more power over them.
Women have hormonal cycles and men like to treat this as evidence of instability while conveniently ignoring their equivalent is permanent and continuous and has no off switch. The male biological imperative just keeps running in the background of every interaction, every decision, every relationship.
The hypocrisy is the part I find the funniest. The same man who will philosophize at length about female emotionality and irrationality will blow up his entire life for something he could not control for thirty minutes. Will say things about womenβs behavior that his own behavior contradicts so completely you would laugh if it were not so consistent across so many men across so many centuries that it stopped being surprising sometime around the Renaissance.
You do not chase. You do not over explain yourself. You do not make yourself smaller or more available or more palatable to manage someone elseβs anxiety about what you are. You simply exist fully and let the biological and psychological reality of what women represent do what it has always done


















