"Women Aren’t Capable of Love" by Florence Nightingale

submitted by carn0ld03 from self.Poetry

Women crave for being loved, not for loving. They scream out at you for sympathy all day long, they are incapable of giving any in return, for they cannot state a fact accurately to another, nor can that other woman attend to it accurately enough for it to become information. Now is not all this the result of want of sympathy?

I am sick with indignation at what wives and mothers will do of the most shocking selfishness. And people call it all maternal or conjugal affection, and think it pretty to say so. No, no, let each person tell the truth from their own experience.

They really don’t have sympathy or the ability to empathize, because they are always judging everyone and every thing as a product on a social value scale that relates to their own egos and bounces off of themselves. There is no capability for genuine feeling.

This is what I have experienced with women, there is no capability for genuine feeling for other humans, or really in general, except when those feelings are for themselves and the other people are just proxies to bounce ideas off of.

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[–]soundsituation 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Woman here. While reciprocity is ideal, I would much rather be the lover than the beloved. Also this isn't a poem.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

And why do you think this is? Look at how the world raises girls: pampered, protected from every displeasure, given gifts and everything in fancy and colorful aesthetics, low expectations, and always considered the victim. And most of this continues their whole lives. In a nutshell: they're spoiled! Men don't deserve all this special treatment for being men, so why should women for being women?

It's not as if men are truly any better in this regard; in fact they're naturally worse. The difference is there's zero tolerance for this behavior in them, and they must put up a good act in order to survive.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

is that really poetry or just paragraphs of facts

she was an ugly lesbian so might have understood the plight of men a little bit