Being rejected for a romantic advance is more painful for:
- men62.9%
- women37.1%
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Probably men simply because they're more likely to kill a woman who rejects them.
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True, though cause women reject men more frequently, in sheer numbers we'd also expect more men murders, even if % is same.
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Numbers may play a factor, but I think it's more a matter of how men are raised emotionally compared to women.
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that sounds a bit sexist to me, propagating a narrative that one gender can't control their emotions.
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True, but even with the numbers, women are still more likely to work through the emotions involved with rejected than men are.
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Even if the numbers were flipped, I doubt that women's reaction would change that much.
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Not that women aren't capable of reacting strongly to rejection, because it does happen.
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But historically, we've seen a very massive number of men reacting dangerously to being rejected by women.
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There have even been groups created that make it one of their talking points (Meninists, for example).