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Ah Travis, you've got issues eh? The following things I'm going to tell you are of course one man's opinion but they are my opinions and therefore they are "Dead on, balls accurate". Why? Because I am Travis Bickle. Well, part of me is.
When Travis was a young man he was afraid of girls, not because they were scary but because he was molested as a child by his Mother and quite possibly Father as well or even a member of the family or a close friend of the family. He may have been to young too remember the actual events but they happened nonetheless and these events shaped the rest of his short life. His parents were devout Christians and attended church every Sunday. Travis listened to everything that was said during the sermons and could never understand how to apply what he would hear there to his own inner turmoil. It angered him deeply that the minister would speak of forgiveness and honor thy parents when it was his parents that made him feel so terrible inside. Trying to be a good son he bottled up every emotion he had and hid it all inside where it began to fester and grow.
As a teenager he may have had some limited success with girls his age but as he was afraid of them, they were even more afraid of him. Travis was always too quiet you see and he always spent most of his time alone. The reason for this is simple. He had absolutely no idea who he was or how he was supposed to act around people, much less a girl. So in the few and far between times he would find himself alone with a girl he mostly would just fumble around and make matters very uncomfortable for the poor girl. So, he remained a virgin.
Growing up, Travis often thought about suicide. He knew though, that if he committed suicide he would forever burn in Hell even though he really didn't understand what that meant. So, he bottled that up as well and added it to the ever growing festering pile of emotions inside of him.
Finding an escape led him to the military and this is where he was able to find an outlet for some of the terrible things that were growing inside him.
In Vietnam he found tenderness in the arms of a hooker that spoke only broken English and yet was able to show him more kindness and compassion in a hour than his Mother did through his entire childhood and yet this only led to Travis being more confused.
Our Travis has been with a woman one time, so yeah, I'd say he was extremely inexperienced. I'd say that this was exemplified by the date he tried to take Betsy on, wouldn't you?
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I think he really is insecure around woman, as a Psy Nurse I would find him toooo mad to want to have a relationship with 
besides that i have met guys like him in my job and they seem to spend a lot of time entertaining themselves 
