Men, how often do you "get your feelings hurt" ?

[steve2470]

Just curious. I do my best to "not get my feelings hurt" but yes, it does happen.

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	Never
	0 (0%)
	Once in a blue moon
	3 (50%)
	Once a year
	0 (0%)
	Once a month
	1 (17%)
	Once a week
	0 (0%)
	Once a day
	1 (17%)
	Other (see my post)
	1 (17%)
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[Agschmid]

1. I'm sure it happens a lot to me but I've learned to brush a lot of it off.

I am gay (came out in 7th grade), overweight, and work retail. It takes a lot at this point in my life to ruffle my feathers. That being said... people can be very hurtful and mean, I see it EVERYDAY. It is not right, it's not fair, it should not happen... but it seems like it does happen quite often in life.

I think also being self confident is helpful?

What really scares me about people getting their feelings "hurt" is the rash of bullying, and youth suicides that are occurring due to "shaming" and bullying at school and online.

[steve2470]

3. thank you for posting and hugs to you nt

[bigwillq]

2. Rarely

I try not to take things too personally.

[olddots]

4. the poll shows that men are stupid insensitive pigs

ooooops can I say that ?

NO this poll hurt my feelings .......

[steve2470]

5. aw

I'm sure you're joking.

[HappyMe]

6. I really hope this is a joke.

[In_The_Wind]

7. The men in my life are not stupid insensitive pigs.

I hope this poll didn't hurt you in anyway.

[olddots]

8. Of course I'm joking

I'm overly sensitive and kind of sensitive about being sensitive and I bet most guys are but try to act like they are insensitive.

I should hit the sarcasm button more often its no substitute for body language and I forget we are on computers

[steve2470]

23. I'm overly sensitive also

[dawg]

10. I can't get my feelings to go back to "unhurt".

I pretty much wear my heart on my sleeve - whatever that means.

[Ikonoklast]

11. Not very often.

But then again, I was once told that I "had the heart of a little black spider" by a sales rep (of all people!) because I wouldn't purchase her crappy product that wasn't selling and wasted space on my shelves.

The people in my departmant that ovewrheard her laughed their asses off, because they knew I was hard-nosed when it came to my job.

[Ron Obvious]

12. Almost never

The benefit of being a solipsist.

[Aristus]

13. Almost never.

I grew up getting bullied and called lots of names. It hurt, and made school a living hell for a while. When I hit puberty, I filled out fairly nicely (I inherited my Dad's chest and shoulders; he was a powerfully-built guy), and people stopped messing with me. I looked like I could give them a hard time if I wanted to. Which shows you what cowards bullies truly are.

Anyway, my coping mechanism at the time was to say to myself: "If they really knew me, they wouldn't have said that."

It applies just as well today. I tend to ignore people who are trying to hurt my feelings. They're not important enough to bother with.

[lastlib]

14. Every time.

[Arctic Dave]

15. Never.

I keep my feeling in a little tin can with holes poked in the top so it can breath. It has a grass bed and I feed it bacon.

It is the happiest feeling in the world.

[OriginalGeek]

16. Hardly ever by strangers

but every once in a while my wife can hit me where it counts. Often, it hurts so much that I have to withdraw and ponder my recent actions and there's a better than 50/50 chance I was behaving poorly to start and she was reacting to that.

there is a lot of truth in the saying that only the ones you really love can hurt you. And vice versa.



Making up is fun though.

[Callmecrazy]

17. I just pull a "Dexter"

on those who mock my superior intellect and breathtaking good looks.

[dimbear]

18. The last time was when I was pulled over for a seatbelt violation while I was wearing my seat belt.

Couple of years ago. I was amazed how angry that made me.

[mythology]

19. Pretty regularly

I have a remarkable ability to have people think it's okay to treat me like I'm garbage. It's pretty much the worst superpower ever.

Part of it is that I have a reputation as always being willing to be the one to sacrifice so everyone assumes I'll always sacrifice, and part of it is that nobody roots for Goliath (I'm physically bigger than a lot of people I'm around in the sports I do).

But some of it is that I never really learned to trust or that somebody actually believed in me and I have a memory like an elephant. So I tend to take things as further slights than individually they would be and I remember a lot of the other ones that most people would forget.

[Art_from_Ark]

20. Quite often

I am quite sensitive. Heck, I still kick myself for a some mean things I said to girls when I was a stupid kid.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

21. Less than once a month, but more than once a year. N.T.

[retread]

22. Yes, it does happen.

"Say man
What's that boy?
I want to tell you 'bout your girlfriend
What about my girl?
Well, you don't look strong enough to take the message
I'm strong enough
I might hurt your feelings
My feelings are already hurt by being here with you"

Bo Diddley