I've never really wanted "to be loved" though, I just wanted to be liked enough so that I could get to fuck JFL
I seriously think this mindset I see so many men expressing is due to socializing, masculinity itself has been feminized, and that's the trick of it all, all men are going around telling themselves - "this is what a man wants" based on the standard of masculinity they were raised and socialized on, which is a false standard to begin with
The men of the past weren't so obsessed with "love" as a concept, marrying for the sake of your family, for political reasons, or due to an arrangement seems foreign to men in our time, many would tell themselves - "I could not do it, I wouldn't feel loved", that's complete BS, that's them going off of their "programming", men of the past were able to do stuff like that just fine, because they adhered to a different standard of masculinity, and in that standard a man's ego is not staked in his ability to make a woman desire him, because what a woman thought of you did not matter, you had much bigger issues like wars, the social standing of your family, politics, etc than to worry about something as trivial as making a woman want you, what women wanted didn't matter, they were commodities being traded and passed around
Today women play the game on tutorial mode, in the past they weren't even players, they were just another item in the game
What men want is to adhere to the standard of masculinity of their era, it just so happens that in our era that is more determined by ones genetics than ones actions, how ironic is it that our lives are easier than our forefathers yet its harder to actually be "successful at life"
