Your Princess Is in Another Castle: Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds

[De Leonist]

1. Not that I disagree with the article but....

I just did want to comment on one line here.

"But that we live in an entitlement culture where guys think they need to be having sex with girls in order to be happy and fulfilled"

While I don't deny the points the article is making I also want to say that men actually do get a substantial
amount of personal and emotional fulfillment from having sex with another person. The fact is men, for the most part, are horndogs. This actually isn't just societal pressure for men to be a certain way. Nor is it just sex for the sake of sex. Sex is extremely important for a man to actually feel loved and cherished by his partner.

Now I'm not saying that sex isn't important for women but that it's even more so for men. I think for Rodger and other men like him it wasn't just about a lack of sex or status or entitlement but also a lack of love, of emotional intimacy. Despite what men say we need that emotional connection as much women do. However because of societal expectations large numbers of men rarely seek out any sort of emotional closeness with another person outside of either casual sex or a romantic relationship. We men are causing great emotional harm to ourselves when we refuse to even at least cultivate a close platonic relationship with another man.