I’ve no doubtely noticed this quite a few times – women do seem to fear rejection more. I especially have noticed how they rationalize away males-being-rejected… I always wondered why those feminists will try to trivialize male-rejection… and then go into a diatribe on “passive rejection”, saying stuff like “women often are rejected by seeing a guy checking out a more attractive woman” ===> WHAT!?!? You’re comparing that to being told “fuck you ugly scam, how dare you ask me out”… I always thought its just crazy feminists who think women are more important, therefore let’s not care about males being rejected and over-focus on females’ rejection.

Well, there might be some reason to it that’s more deeper rooted. It is possible that women do fear and hate rejection more than men, even in much subtler forms.

Why Do So Many Women Experience the “Imposter Syndrome”? | Psychology Today

This may be why women have been evolutionarily designed to fear rejection and disapproval much more than men do.