@littlest-lily said in New Home:
But in any case, someone actually responding to that prompt with “why though?” kinda blows my mind lol
I’ve looked into this to a small extent, and one of the the things that seemingly both genders have trouble understanding about each other is about being acknowledged as ‘attractive’. Women have this to excess, to the point where it’s not only unwanted, but actively suffocating.
Men, meanwhile, just don’t have this. Unironically, men in general are not acknowledged as attractive… ever. You’ll find guys talking about that one time a girl said a shirt looked good on him or something, and they treasure that memory, years and years later, because that was such a big moment for them.
Problem being, it’s so systematically in place that at this point, a girl can’t just compliment a guy anymore, because it’s effectively flirting at this point, and guys complimenting girls are just endless noise… a post I remember said it best: It’s someone dying of thirst looking at someone drowning. The fundamental exprences of this are completely alien to each other.
…All of this is to say, I’m absolutely unsurprised about the, ‘why though’, because for a lot of guys, unless you’re really attractive, or actively unattractive, it’s not actually something that seems… relevent? To a guy? And thus for a guy? Double so in GTS content where the focus is overwhelmingly on the women and guys often aren’t even an active factor on the image.