This truly is a worthless rant (the article, I mean). Sure, I have problems with expressing empathy sometimes, or some such thing, but that doesn't mean I don't want to connect. (I'm a female, BTW)
Of course, they're probably right, I'm probably just some chauvinist pig (cough, sarcasm, cough).
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"There are things you need not know of, though you live and die in vain,
There are souls more sick of pleasure than you are sick of pain"
--G. K. Chesterton, The Aristocrat