The difference between the rejection by women men complain about and the rejection women face from men is that usually men face rejection by women they didn’t invest a lot of time and emotional energy into. They see a girl they think is pretty, they might have a friendship with her, they make an advance, she says no, and that’s that. Yeah they may have pined about her privately and that does hurt, but ultimately, she doesn’t really owe you anything. The rejection women face is different and tends to happen within relationships we’ve already invested a lot of our emotional energy and time and heart into. Women feel rejection when men say they love them but their actions don’t reflect that. Women feel rejection when their partners openly lust after other women, either in real life or porn. Women feel rejected when he says he’s sorry and he’ll change, but he doesn’t. Women feel rejected when men cheat on them. Women feel rejected when men gaslight them and emotionally and physically abuse them. Women feel rejected when their partners behave in patronizing, condescending, and chauvinist ways. Women feel rejected when they’re treated like their ideas, thoughts, concerns, and needs don’t matter. Women feel rejected when their partners don’t show consistency in their affection, attention, and care. I think it’s difficult for women to admit that all these things feel like rejection just because it hurts so much when it was by a man we loved and cared for, but that’s what it was. And that is a lot more painful than someone you had no ties to telling you they’re not interested in you.