Insecurity. Scared little boys whose sense of meaning and self-respect is obsessively tied up with their “ability” to control the behavior of women (using threats, violence). Possessiveness is a form of cowardice https://twitter.com/sharanvkaur/status/1290797759788748800

If your girlfriend wants to leave you, let her. If you’re really a man worth being with, then it’s her loss, not yours. Begging, pleading and/or intimidating her into staying is cowardice, especially if you raise your voice or fist. It reveals your fundamental neediness

Often these dudes don’t even actually care about their girlfriends at all - see how quick they are to insult and demean them. Often they’re worried about what other guys will think of them. Which is again another form of cowardice

galaxy-brain take: the normalisation of coercion (often) begins at home, and is further entrenched in school https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1149365496472432640?s=21 https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1149365496472432640