It took me so long to figure this out. All you ever hear is that girls will like you for who you are, that you are fine just the way you are, that all you need to do is tell her how you feel. Guys are taught to be ass-kissing wussbags their entire lives; we get set up for a lifetime of disappointment.
We learn from horrible, corrupt, abusive women who are complete failures in life (colloquially known as "teachers") that women cannot be trusted, that they will hurt you, and that they must be pleased. We then generalize that onto the remainder of the non-psycho female population, unfairly making them pay.
We learn that women are not People, but scary, terrifying things that make us horny, one-dimensional Others.
I agree with your analogy - if a girl was 400 pounds and never washed or brushed her teeth, she would not fit most men's idea of "attractive".
If a girl was taught her entire life that in order to get men, she HAD to get fat and refrain from grooming, she would be frustrated and angry too; this is what happens with guys, especially guys that have a strong drive to do the right thing, aka the dreaded "nice guy".
A lot of men get frustrated because they think they are doing all the right things, checking all the boxes, and then get rebuffed.
That is why it is so damn refreshing to see a woman cut the crap and tell it like it is.
Nice guys aren't being nice, they are trying to score. Most are not conscious of this, though. If you have been trained that your sexuality is inherently injurious and offensive to women, it will mess you up to the point where you deny to yourself that you even want to have sex. You feel torn between your biological drives and the moronic feminist crap you have been forcefed your entire life, and it can be hellish.
But the good part is that if someone like you, a woman, says what they are doing is wrong, they'll believe it more readily than if a man says it.
Good stuff.
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