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The Will Spencer Podcast

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You Don't Know the Right Standard of Behavior

When a woman observes a man's behavior she compares herself to the ideal woman who would behave in such a way. She judges herself as lacking first and foremost, which is a disempowering position itself criticizing. But then that she also takes the female standard of behavior and applies it to the man and assumes that the man knows that that's the standard of behavior. So the man has two strikes against him in any situation. And so the pain the emasculation the judgment that he feels coming from a woman in many circumstances is because he's so dumb to not know the right standardbehavior. He's already lost going into the situation. The certainty is that you're misbehaving.

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