As for men getting in touch with their ‘feminine side’ as Ashley puts it—.

I challenge anyone to watch a male targetted Rom-Com in the last 15 years and tell me there aren’t portrayals of men getting in touch with their feminine side. Hitch, What a Woman Wants, whatever one where two firefighters pretend to be gay. There’s a plethora of them out there, and many men who do ‘get in touch with their feminine side’. I mean, seriously, what do you think all the overly emotional betas and omegas are doing? Where do you think they come from if not from being told that masculinity is evil, feminine is godly, and to be more emotionally aware/conversive?

Men don’t naturally want to do this, but when they’re raised that way they have a great deal of challenging changes to go through to become a healthy man as an adult.

As to the opposite, and women wanting to be masculine— I would claim that women simply have a desire to rebel built into them, but want to be put in their place. I’ve seen it in life enough for me to accept it as true, and the biblical fall and rebellion by Eve against Adam has my back on the issue as well. They don’t want to be masculine, they just want a masculine man to stop them. Until they find one, they’ll invade places of masculine energy in hopes of finding a man who is man enough to put her in her place.