Video games causing a "masculinity crisis" claims famed psychologist

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Goatseye said:
What the deuces is wrong with being rejected? I'm glad I grew up in the environment I was brought up.
Life is made of success and failure. What would be of us humans, if we buckled just by thinking of impossible odds?

For a lot of people, it is tied to their self-esteem; they feel as though a rejection is an indictment of their worth as a person, and they find it emotionally painful and humiliating. Hence they avoid it.