Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Women are liked better when they lose.
Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.
Men are much more agressive with their advances.
Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.
Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it.
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.