I didn't have a problem with that - I think that's a good thing, for men and women. I mostly had a problem with the "I don't placate" part, how he worded it, and misogyny behind the whole thought process. He obviously doesn't love, or even care about, the women that he's with to choose some kind of it's-all-about-me-tough-love over another person's feelings. What does it hurt him to say, "You're beautiful" when the woman he's intimate with needs some reassuring. Sure, SOME women constantly fish for compliments by putting themselves down, but that doesn't sound like what he was describing. And that he doesn't put up with a couple pounds gained? I don't curse often, but #*#^ you, Chris.
Also don't talk about periods until you've had one