Posted on 06/11/2023 11:53:33 PM PDT by Morgana
A clip of a weeping transgender man has swept the internet, after he cried while saying how much harder it was to strike up meaningful friendships as a man than it had been as a woman.
James Barnes, who was born female but transitioned to male eight years ago, works as a life coach to help others going through life changes. He recently opened up about the challenges he's faced since becoming a man - especially loneliness.
Breaking down in tears, Barnes said: 'No one told me how lonely being a man is.
'I had closer friendships with random women I met in the bathroom at clubs before I transitioned because of how open women are, than I've had in my 8 years of transitioning because women are just so much more vulnerable and deep than men.
'We knew what depth felt like before we transitioned, we knew what it felt like to have people want to hug us, and have people want to talk to us, and have a community.
'And then you transition and you're just a guy walking down the street that people cross the street so they're not near you. And friendships are so much harder to build, and people are colder.'
Barnes, who is also a motivational speaker said while holding back his tears, 'I also now understand why the suicide rate is so much higher with men, because this s**t is lonely.
'I am an emotionally matured man, I know how to build friendships, and it's still really really hard.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
He / she works as a life coach? The Bee can't write this stuff!
Breaking down in tears, Barnes said: 'No one told me how lonely being a man is..
Pobrocito! Or pobrocita?!
All these woke people seem to be woefully deficient in social skills or any sense of where where they are headed.
When you are still a teenager, still working on your education, or so young that your experience of life is limited.... you ought to have enough common sense and humility to recognize that you do NOT know everything. You should also admit that you may never know ‘everything’ (no one does), and will need to keep on learning until the end.
Those younger years are not the best time to make abrupt, ill-advised and irreversible life decisions! Stop and note what those above and outside YOU are saying!
Does poor James Barnes still pee sitting down? If so, it might have a few more meaningful conversations if it were to stand at the urinal and bitch about the Packers.
There was a woman a few years ago that went undercover as a man for a year to prove how they had it better. After that year she reported that being a man is lonely and hard and that she was treated so horrible by women. She was very disturbed by it and killed herself a year later.
WHAT?! Noooooo.
RIP Bagster, if so.
no butter on my popcorn... just tears.
On the 8th day, God created the hardware store, for men. This is why men are happy.
“Or go back to being a woman.
“Their hormones are not in sync with their bodies.”
The cave-dwelling culture of human beings developed, along with human biology, for hundreds of thousands of years, compared to the possibly 100 years existence of the culture this person comes from.
For a hundred thousand years men, alone or in small groups, went out and roamed the countryside to hunt food, while trying to avoid deadly accidents, predators, and enemy humans. Women stayed around the cave talking to each other, caring for children, and chewing hides to make leather. They were always in as safe a space as could be found. That kind of genetic breeding does not change overnight. Maybe in a thousand years, check back.
This person should probably read Jean Auel’s “Clan of the Bear” for a romanticized but still essentially realistic picture of how things may have been.
“says he can see why suicide rate among males is higher”
and MUCH higher amongst pretend “men” ...
Yes. One of the quietest places in the world is the men’s room.
To be a man DOES mean to have fewer friends, …but there are other great compensations. As long as you have family, and a couple guys to help you down that dead tree in your yard, you’re all set. Life is good.
Very true. I told both of my kids (son and daughter) that men and women inhabit the same planet, but live in very different worlds.
James Barnes, who was born female but transitioned to male eight years ago,
started pretending to be a male eight years ago...
‘I am an emotionally matured man, “
You’re an emotionally immature woman pretending to be a man. it’s cosplay.
its problem is that it’s a freak, neither fish nor fowl ... and suicide rates amongst freaks is extremely high ...
I doubt many men want to be friends with someone who is so disordered and pretending to be male.
Mental illness to this degree must be unbelievably painful.
!! She is not an emotionally mature woman, either!
She is insane.
She’s an emotionally mature woman that looks like a man.
She’s an emotionally IMMATURE woman pretending to be a man.
How did that work out for you, bro / sis?
If "he" wanted to be influential on men, he should have remained a female.
Real men don't like to be lectured by fake ones.
Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh, suck it up. You wanted to be a man, so stop whining.
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