"So men think that a way to cheer us up is to offer sex. But they are getting it all wrong."
I don't understand why so many women think men are incapable of reading extremely clear signals, understanding that women are human beings and empathising. It's like you think men have some kind of condition which stops them being able to function like adults in relationships with women. A condition which doesn't extend to their relationships with other men, or with women they don't feel entitled to treat disrespectfully without suffering adverse consequences.
These same men are perfectly capable of understanding what people want in a workplace or social context: they know when they can joke around with the boss and when that's not appropriate, they know how far they can push banter with their colleagues before it becomes unprofessional or harassment, in short they know how to behave, most men are perfectly adequately socialised to know what's acceptable and what's not.
It's only in their intimate relationships with women, that they choose to ignore that socialisation and women make excuses for them by saying that they don't understand, they are from Mars while we are from Venus, they can't read signals etc. Like women, men are perfectly capable of picking up verbal and non-verbal cues and atmosphere's etc., when they want to - they just choose not to because they have no respect for the women they live with.
I know that's an uncomfortable thing to acknowledge so it's easier to patronise and insult men by pretending that they are idiots who can't help it, but the sooner women recognise that men are thinking, feeling human beings just like we are, some of whom choose to pretend they aren't so they can get away with disrespectful, shitty behaviour year after year, the sooner the next generation of women can recognise this shit for what it is and not put up with it.