I don’t feel entitled to friendship but it pisses me off to think I’m gaining a friend and he was only ever interested in banging me. Is my only value in being a piece of meat to fuck? I’d rather normalize getting over a crush instead of getting butthurt (talking to all people not just men), it’s really not that hard.
Maybe don’t bank everything on a crush and you won’t be destroyed by it? I’m not the only one who’s lost years-long friendships because a man shot his shot and would rather lose me in all ways than just keep distance for a bit until he got over himself. It’s naive to assume people are always upfront about what they want. I can read flirting/friendliness just fine thanks.
Clearly not, because then you’d have no problem distinguishing between a man flirting and being friendly to you. Again, common problem that psychiatrists have written many papers about. Girls assume less guys are into them there are and guys assume more girls are into them then there are. In his eyes he was never friends with you - he felt nothing when you rejected him besides the rejection. The “loss of friendship” was inconsequential.
The way you’re responding sounds like you don’t think men and women can be friends at all lol. I’m not narcissistic enough to assume every man who talks to me wants a relationship. “He was never friends with you” is a very presumptuous statement when in my case 3 yrs went by before flirting started when he developed feelings. You can’t just assume they’re all mindlessly pursuing someone from the start.