One reason I like this article is because of what it is not. It analyses problems without tying them to any sex, race or even class identity. So indirectly it undermines the idea of automatic privilege: hell, even a (rich) cishet white male can have a harder life than other people when he struggles with emotional neglect. (I wouldn't even be surprised if rich people have a higher percentage of issues with that.)

A lot of what is mentioned in the article sounds actually rather normal and frequently happening. Doesn't everybody more or less have these problems? Also, I wouldn't be surprised if they often were the result of a combination of innate traits and the wrong approach by parents and other important people. Partly nature, partly nurture.

From my own experience, I know these problems can be very real. Though indeed being a cishet white man who even went to college, and though my parents weren't extremely strict, let alone aggressive, I have exactly this mentality, that I tried to struggle against all my life, and I can more or less point out where it came from. And it feels like in half a century, a lot of things never got started, sometimes for incredibly trivial reasons.

Though I hate to make this a 'men most affected'-thing, it would be interesting to find out if boys and men are sometimes hit in a different, and maybe harder, way, by the results of emotional neglect.

To begin with: little girls' emotions are often taken more seriously than little boys' emotions. Most people learned to look at it that way, and little girls are also considered more charming. Maybe pretty children in general get more empathy than others, but girls on average are considered prettier than boys.

Then, when we grow up: (young) women who feel depressed and insecure because they were emotionally neglected as a child, get more sympathy and love than men in the same situation. Men get at best 'therapeutic' sympathy, which is never a real good basis for a friendship, let alone a romantic relationship. To succeed in career, sex and relationships, focusing, self-confidence and a certain amount of optimism are almost indispensable for men.

Moving in liberal and leftist circles may make it worse for the male half of this group. Idealistic people who promote freedom and equality may seem to make good friends. But if they demand from men to put other, 'marginalised', people before themselves, they push them back into the rut they tried to get out of all their life.

True: we can't deny that there also are girls who've traditionally been taught to be sympathetic and caring for others all their lives, and whose emotional neglect in their youth may make this behavior worse. But for women there's support everywhere in society, not for men.

One more personal conclusion: Men probably never only are affected by feminism or gynocentrism or misandry. There are always other things in their life that make those phenomena hard to cope with. Maybe that's why many people, even if they think feminists exaggerate a bit, don't understand why so many men are bothered by it. If you're balanced and happy, what's the big deal? Alright, but nobody is totally balanced and happy, and feminism can make it worse.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/childhood-emotional-neglect/202204/18-false-beliefs-held-people-raised-emotional-neglect