Talk:Kokoro/@comment-24801697-20180501150121

Kokoro: "I'm not the nice, gentle girl you all think I am".

This is irrelevant and she should know it. It's no different than the childhood friend you grew up with knowing your whole life that suddenly changes in High School and you no longer get along with. It's a convenient excuse for people to hide believing that their best friend wouldn't like them anymore if they actually "knew" them so it's a defense mechanism to push that person away so that they don't get hurt.

Futoshi didn't do anything wrong. And there's nothing wrong with him being "clingy" either. The idea to think that he would not have accepted Kokoro for who she was as a person is a completely childish and immature behavior, you could probably throw irrational in there as well.

To break it down how these things generally happen. It would be this. Futoshi you could say is essentially the "nice guy" who finished last or the one suffering from the "Nice Guy Syndrome". Who ever it was that said "Nice Guys Finish Last" is a complete fool, it is "He Who Gives Up Hasn't Left The Starting Gate." Futoshi is obviously neither, as he even practically confessed to Kokoro, it was Kokoro who's in the wrong for not rejecting him outright out of pity trying to protect him from hurting his feelings -- which is the wrong resonse in this situation. Any woman who seeks to protect a mans feelings by not being up front with him will cause so much damage to that man that it's incomprehensible and beyond fathomable. Men generally are treated by society as if they don't or should not express their emotions or have feelings, but the moment they do people are scared by it or even mock & ridicule them for it (in most general extreme cases not the 100% of all men who express their emotions).

A man who's been treated that way will look at all women differently for the rest of his life. They eventually begin to see women as not just selfish, but completely as if they're not even human which essentially creates the "assholes" of society that treat their women like dirt. They'll look at the "bad boys" who are the ones that even get any action or time of day at all and they don't "mimic" the routine, they abuse it or perfect it to such an extent that you wouldn't imagine that he had any demons until the one time he lets it out (and by then it might be too late).