Cruelty
Men are often driven by their instincts and physical needs to get infatuated with a woman's body. Then they either are jerks, who consciously manipulate the woman to let them use their body. Or they are immature or emotional morons (entry 156), who seriously believe themselves to love her.
They tell the woman dozens of times every day, how much they love her, they even do little things for her and buy her gifts. Only from this behavior, there is no way to find out, if such a man's proclaimed love is caring love or selfish infatuation.
But there is a way to find conclusive evidence for the absence of caring love: It is cruelty.
Men are often driven by their instincts and physical needs to get infatuated with a woman's body. Then they either are jerks, who consciously manipulate the woman to let them use their body. Or they are immature or emotional morons (entry 156), who seriously believe themselves to love her.
They tell the woman dozens of times every day, how much they love her, they even do little things for her and buy her gifts. Only from this behavior, there is no way to find out, if such a man's proclaimed love is caring love or selfish infatuation.
But there is a way to find conclusive evidence for the absence of caring love: It is cruelty.
Caring love and cruelty are mutually exclusive.
A man with caring love is never cruel to his partner. A cruel man does not feel caring love, but uses a woman as a utility for his selfish needs.
The only realistic method to judge a man is judging him by the worst things that he does.
The difference between cruelty and painful moments in a relationship is the attitude to and the perception of his partner's pain.
For the cruel jerk, the pain of his partner is either of no significance, meaningless, indifferent, of no importance to him, or he even enjoys his power to be able to inflict pain on her. He has no conscience about hurting his partner.
For the caring loving man, it is of paramount importance not to cause pain to his partner, he is very motivated to avoid everything, that would hurt his partner. Having caused pain to his partner makes him feel unhappy, therefore he is eager to learn, what would cause her pain, before it ever happens.
Cruelty implies three factors:
Cruelty is,
An example for cruelty is the public scene in the bus, as given in entry 190. The man can see the growing pain of embarrassment in the woman's face, when she implores him with growing urgency to stop drawing attention from the spectators nearby. To continue the scene with the intention to enhance her embarrassment is an act of so much cruelty, that I have no doubt, that this man does not love that unhappy wretch.
It is not cruelty:
Example: A man commits a social blunder due to his lack of knowledge of cultural differences and it is embarrassing for the woman. But he is eager to communicate about the topic until he has learned how not to repeat the blunder.
It is obvious, that I do not want ever get near a cruel jerk, but I am aware, that learning how not to hurt each other is a process, that needs a lot of communication.
The only realistic method to judge a man is judging him by the worst things that he does.
The difference between cruelty and painful moments in a relationship is the attitude to and the perception of his partner's pain.
For the cruel jerk, the pain of his partner is either of no significance, meaningless, indifferent, of no importance to him, or he even enjoys his power to be able to inflict pain on her. He has no conscience about hurting his partner.
For the caring loving man, it is of paramount importance not to cause pain to his partner, he is very motivated to avoid everything, that would hurt his partner. Having caused pain to his partner makes him feel unhappy, therefore he is eager to learn, what would cause her pain, before it ever happens.
Cruelty implies three factors:
- A man's behavior causes a woman to get physically or feel emotionally hurt.
- He can know it. That means, that he either knows already, what hurts her, or that she gives him feedback about it or that she asks him to stop an action, while he does it.
- He continues or repeats his behavior.
Cruelty is,
- when a man feels entitled to do something, in spite or defiance of knowing that she feels hurt by his behavior.
- when a woman gives a man feedback, that his behavior hurts her, and he continues his behavior as if she has never said anything.
- when a woman gives a man feedback, that his behavior hurts her, and he tells her that it is her flaw and defect, that she feels hurt, and he continues or repeats the same behavior.
- when a man disregards her feedback and denies to take it for serious or to believe her, that she feels hurt, and continues or repeats his behavior.
- when a man commits a transgression, but does not feel guilty and does not earn her forgiving, because he considers the transgression as appropriate according to his depreciation, devaluation and disrespect for her.
- when a man uses aggression and rage to intimidate the woman to give up her resistance to being the target of his hurtful behavior, and to coerce her to do what causes her pain when doing it.
- when a man does not react, when the woman asks him to postpone some action and communicate about it.
- when a man refuses the woman's wish to communicate how to prevent hurting her in the future.
An example for cruelty is the public scene in the bus, as given in entry 190. The man can see the growing pain of embarrassment in the woman's face, when she implores him with growing urgency to stop drawing attention from the spectators nearby. To continue the scene with the intention to enhance her embarrassment is an act of so much cruelty, that I have no doubt, that this man does not love that unhappy wretch.
It is not cruelty:
- when a man hurts a woman once by ignorance and is keen and eager to learn, how to never do it again.
- when a man commits a forgivable transgression (cheating is not forgivable) and feels as guilty as she feels hurt and makes all amends and restitutions, until she can forgive him, and he learns how to never repeat this transgression.
Example: A man commits a social blunder due to his lack of knowledge of cultural differences and it is embarrassing for the woman. But he is eager to communicate about the topic until he has learned how not to repeat the blunder.
It is obvious, that I do not want ever get near a cruel jerk, but I am aware, that learning how not to hurt each other is a process, that needs a lot of communication.
