There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
There is a biological power that is intrinsic to the woman, to the female condition. Because you are able to give life. You are the reproducer of the species. Men feel very weak in front of a woman because a woman is capable of eliciting a number of instincts in a man. And that is what has made men very nervous about women.
All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.
The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'
I'm surrounded by all these strong women - my publicist, my manager, and my wife - and sometimes I think that women are more evolved than men, and they are able to process a heartache better.
I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
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