I would settle for receiving less resentment for my gender, and less hatred for my typically masculine urges and behaviors.
I am appreciated by my immediate family, a few friends, and a few acquaintances. However, I was specifically discussing gratitude.
Gratitude is in exceedingly short supply. And I don’t mean specifically for me, but for what it is that men do as a whole. I think we aren’t just in low supply of gratitude, rather that we are receiving copious amounts of disrespect and rejection for what we do - all while still providing the very infrastructure that is required for modern day life. In other words: someone spiting you for creating the very means to live in which they are currently berating you from.
I wrote this a little while ago, and it still applies now
The crazy part is that I wrote this in regard to why men and conservatives are generally so hateful and disrespectful towards the left - but it applies almost exactly the same in context of male/female interactions.
I do not see that men are resentful of typically feminine behaviors in women.
But we are in a relationship where hatred flows only one direction. Even men who ‘hate’ women don’t hate them - they just hate that they don’t have one.
I feel for the journey your sons will have to take. My path wasn’t - and isn’t - easy. Theirs will be harder.
The only unconditional love a man can ever get is from their mother, and sometimes not even then.