No I'm not going to talk about the South Park episode of season 16 but about something I've noticed on 3 popular (or unpopular) subreddits: male insecurity.

/r/MensRights/ : These men seem to be obsessed with the word rape. Yes I've been following this subreddit for some time and most days there has to be a thread on rape. Are they scared of being accused of being rapists/paedophiles/child molesters ?

/r/TheRedPill/ : Another male insecurity subreddit. They seem to think that most women will either divorce-rape them or cheat on them. It's as if highschoolers or virgins have been browsing only the "infidelity" flair of r/relationships and now have developed this insecurity

/r/seduction/ : I actually love and hate this sub at the same time. There is good advice on how to become a seducer but the sad part is that many of the followers focus on sex-closing . They end up looking needy and approaching total strangers on the street and it's not a surprise that they end up failing. I'm not pretending that sex shouldn't be a drive in life but being insecure about not having sex or enough sex will entrap you in a spiral of more anxiety and you will end up spending time and money without any results.

EDIT: Maslow's description of an insecure person: "perceives the world as a threatening jungle and most human beings as dangerous and selfish; feels rejected and isolated , anxious and hostile; is generally pessimistic and unhappy; shows signs of tension and conflict, tends to turn inward; is troubled by guilt-feelings, has one or another disturbance of self-esteem; tends to be neurotic; and is generally egocentric and selfish."

/u/howimetyomama : > many things can be called insecurity. It depends what you mean by insecurity. Unemployment can make you emotionally vulnerable, so does lack of sex but what does being branded as a sex offender or fear of infidelity have to do with it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_insecurity does make a good read although there is lack of citations.