E: I am so baffled how the HN community could be so very anti-female here that they would advocate for this sort of commentary by downvoting.
You invalidated a lived experience that a lot of people can confirm by telling someone that their feelings are so unrealistic that they need therapy.
> But, you're making sweeping generalizations about ~50% of the world's behavior
sounds a lot like "not all (wo)men"... yeah, but enough of them for many men to have learned to be cautious around vulnerability with women. Its the same thing as guys who don't understand the man vs. bear thing.
You may not have read what they wrote and I responded to, but you just invalidated what I was responding to by saying “wo(men)”. Yes; PEOPLE can be hurtful, but the parent was specifically talking about WOMEN.
It's making fun of that sentiment. That all men are the problem is as stupid as thinking that all women are the problem. People who have suffered violence from men, or emotional abuse from women will put up walls, and sometimes it becomes a wall based on gender. You missed the point.
I'm not invalidating what you're saying. I'm explaining why you got downvoted to all hell, and what you're interpretation edit may be missing.