It still astounds me that I even met this woman at all, and I wish everyone could experience it once in their lives. I know exactly what you mean about the state of denial the vast majority of women live in. They can't do otherwise and still maintain the relationships with men that they have. I'm trying to imagine being married or having a son, and the mental gymnastics I'd have to do to not kill them both, nevermind serve them and their endless neediness and disrespect. I mean, the fact that other oppressed groups are not pressured or forced to have such intimate relationships with a member of the very class of people who actively try to destroy them and their cohort on a daily basis (or at best just benefit from their harm), is very telling. Only women are herded into this type of situation and convinced it is somehow natural and good for them, and then, even if they manage to wise up, they are usually stuck there through breeding situation. It is quite rare for a woman to walk away from a child she birthed. It has got to be a hall of mirrors inside these women's head, seeing glimpses of the horrors of the truth of their lives, and then if they try to get a closer look, the light changes the reflection and they aren't sure of anything anymore. There are so many coping mechanisms needed in order to deal with male relationships. But denial is a big one. And the clichés and mantras that most women have at the ready when they are faced with cold hard facts that contradict their entire worldview are things they have heard from birth from everyone around them.

It's frustrating not being able to candidly discuss facts with women though. I've gotten to a point where I can tell the exact point in a conversation with a woman I don't know well where she is mentally starting to inch away from me in fear due to something I've said, and I know she will never speak to me again even if she ends the conversation politely. Sigh...

I've always found it interesting that males in direct competition can always bond over hurting women, but women almost never bond over the shared experience of being hurt by men.