spiderkiss:poppypicklesticks:maraudere:Josh Thomas talks about male suicideI wonder how feminists wi
spiderkiss:poppypicklesticks:maraudere:Josh Thomas talks about male suicideI wonder how feminists will react to thisProbably ignore it then go back to making male tears mugs and gifs Actually this is a very common idea among feministsIt’s something feminists have been talking about for years it’s called toxic masculinity and it’s one of the common threads among the topic of ‘Patriarchy hurts men too’. If fact the first time I read about toxic masculinity was on a feminist blog.If you actually read things feminists talk about instead of straw manning them you might know this but OH WELLSeriously, if someone refuses to acknowledge toxic masculinity as a thing, then they are absolutely not a feminist and you need to stop considering them as any kind of accurate representation of feminism at all.This shit is the reason school shootings keep happening in the US, too - men who have been raised to internalise toxic masculinity end up with a lot of issues to work through when it turns out that they’re not as entitled to the success, love, wealth and sex that they’ve grown up being promised as they thought, but because they’ve been taught that having feelings is weak and womanly and feminine and thereby inherently bad, they don’t feel able to seek help for those issues and they wind up with all sorts of mental health problems that fester and grow like cancers the longer they go unaddressed. Men are taught that the only acceptable emotions for men to have are happiness and anger, and that the only acceptable way for men to solve problems is through violence, and guns, another token of masculinity, are easily available in the US. So look again at who the people who perform these mass shootings are: they’re all men. They’re all men, and it boils down to this culture of toxic masculinity. If you think feminists aren’t talking about this, then you are clearly not listening to actual feminists. -- source link
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