If you're in my generation, you grew up believing that women are the nicer gender, that they're the ones with special abilities to be nurturing and caring. We men were supposedly ruffians incapable of that. I'm not sure if later generations learned that BS, but mine definitely did.
However, here's a story from my grade school days that contradicts that. This retarded kid transferred to our school one year. At first, everyone, boys and girls alike, mocked him and hassled him. However, with the boys, that behavior was short-lived. Everything changed after a couple things happened. Our coach let him go home early, and then he used the time to give us a speech to the effect of "it's not his fault," something that, of course, was totally true. The other thing that happened was we figured out he could throw a shot put incredibly far, farther than anyone else could. With that event, he helped our school to beat another school in a track meet.
So us guys got used to his clumsy mannerisms and his goofy way of talking. He was just who he was, and we accepted that. We let him laugh with us and didn't laugh at him anymore. The tougher guys in our class started standing up to any guy who put him down. It was a totally different story with the girls, however. They continued to mock him and laugh at him, especially the pretty ones. For whatever reason, the tough dudes wouldn't stand up to a pretty and popular girl who acted all cunty toward him.
There were three bitches especially who were ruthless to him. They just wouldn't stop saying cruel shit to him, and neither the tough guys nor the teachers did shit about it. They kept it up for months until the poor kid finally hung himself.
Where was these girls' supposed superior empathy? And why did they stand up to the dudes who mocked him, but not to the girls?
I'm not saying that men have superior empathy either. Men are capable of cruelty as well, but that notion that women have some kind of superior compassion or kindness is so far from the truth that it's a cruel joke.
The other fucked up thing that happened was after he was dead, the girls who had been the most vicious to him were the ones who acted super sad, like they missed him so much, as if they had always been his best friend. The hypocrisy was astounding.
Again, I'm not trying to prove that men are superior. There's plenty of examples of men doing awful things. I'm only saying that the "sugar and spice and everything nice" cliche for women is bullshit. I've also known way more two-faced women than men.
I think a big reason dudes grow up thinking that they have to get a girlfriend and then a wife is that they want access to that mythical goodness that women supposedly have. A big, important step in my turning MGTOW was realizing that the special woman's kindness, or woman's touch, is all a myth we've created. It's part of men putting women on a pedestal.
I would welcome other men's experience on this topic. Was this a big MGTOW realization for you as well?