Yea I was surprised when my own (female) therapist, just drew a blank when I told her about this. She was literally speechless and changed the subject. It also explains when many M2F trans therapists and other professionals encourage transition without really understanding some deep fundamental issues.

"Offsetting that is that men as social beings have not prioritised and developed the inner reflection and language to express their personal world through closer relationship of all kinds." - yup that's true. And most often when a guy does express himself he's criticized especially by women. They complain that men aren't expressive, and when they express something about themselves (vs. about the woman), they are most often criticized because it's not what she wants to hear. I found that women just don't care how men feel about their lives, because the emotional aspect of the relationship is pretty much mostly about the woman. I couldn't be part of that.