@Vermillion-Rx

You didn't tag me but I'll answer anyway. As usual, I'll largely agree with @Typo-MAGAshiv. Trust is built over time, and that applies to both men and women (don't ask me how I know).

Like Typo, I gave my wife PoA when I deployed without a second thought. I also spent another year in the middle east as a geographical bachelor without wondering what she was up to. We generally have to badger each other about not spending money on things for ourselves that we can afford rather than spending it on crap we don't need. I put off buying myself an Oculus for a couple of years until she got tired of listening to me pondering it and practically sent me to the store. (I love it, by the way.) I'm constantly telling her to buy stuff for herself when she won't get rid of things that are worn out. A few months ago I had to drag her to the store to buy herself SHOES, for crying out loud, and once we got there I had to insist that she buy the good expensive ones rather than the cheap ones.

But she's not some skank I met in a bar, and she's proved herself over decades. We're religious, though, and not just in the "I identify as an Episcopalian during the Christmas season" or the "I was baptized as an infant at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Motion Cathedral" sense: we actually mean it, and the fear of Divine retribution has a sobering effect.

cc: @RedPirate751 @adam-l @Lionsmane8 @coolsocks00

@Lone_Ranger

It's too bad that everyone has to be anonymous for our own safety: my wife and I were in the UK recently. Maybe we could have tipped a pint.

As for me, I have to wonder about those numbers. We have the same thing here in the colonies: astronomical percentages of what I call "Alphabet people" (LGBTQIAAQWERTY+++). I remember when they were saying it was 10% based on a bogus study of male prisoners (with no access to women), and legitimate researchers fact-checked them and said it was about 1%. But in some "progressive" departments of American colleges it's close to half.

10%.... those are rookie numbers today. (There used to be a US cable network called "10%" that only carried "gay" programming... like BET for homos.)

I wonder how much is conditioning to actually believe that, and how much of it is people trying to access privileges. Among those people, the guys win big. All you have to do to get a full ride athletic scharship is be better than a bunch of high school girls, but the girls are doomed to disappointment when they discover that their whole belief system is based on the Apex Fallacy. There's no "male privilege" for short, effeminate dudes.