Power, sex, control -- and maybe even some understanding of a gender they cannot quite comprehend. I don't believe men (even those who think themselves superior in all or some respects, i.e. chauvinists) really know what women are about. Women have always had to use guile and stealth and circuitous thinking to secure what they want.
Men typically try to use logic (often flawed) and then loudness of voice or simple "miles gloriosus" kind of energy to secure what they want. I am a man -- I know how we think. I know the kinds of strategies we fall back on. And many of our strategies (as many of the female kind) make me just a bit ashamed of being quite so flawed and inauthentic.
I am pretty sure I have lost the will to manipulate women -- even though I can still notice when they are trying to manipulate me.
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