My guess is that because men told her that she is intimidating all the time even if no one ask them and she wasn’t interested in them. I mean, that is annoying.

You are happily going about your life, doing stuff and solving your own problems the way it works for you and there comes a men that usually is just a coworker or maybe a friend of a friend and tell you that *you* should change to be less intimidating. And usually what he actually means is “less intimidating for him and therefore, more pleasing to him”. Because *he* is the one interested. It gets tiring.

So, you know, if a men have shortcomings and can’t deal with the idea that a women doesn’t need him, well, that is his problem. And while you might be annoyed at the idea that yes, some strong women find equally strong partners, that doesn’t make it a lie. I mean, the fact that plenty of single women get to live their lives and solve their own problems is proof enough that women are strong. The fact that plenty of those strong women with partners keep living well as widows also prove you wrong.

Men like you enjoy the idea that they are *needed*. But life happens and people keep living. People, including women, are way more resilient than we think. And wars or other disasters show women are strong too. Just look at “Rosie the riveter”, the symbols that when men weren’t around, women keep everything running. History have proved you wrong. It is the men who think that women should need them the ones who have a need for a fantasy. Not the other way around. No wonder why many traditional women think that men are easily manipulable. XD