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View submission: Am I losing my mind??
Following for the book recommendations.
Because I feel the same. I see through my wife the things she has to deal with and it's disheartening. Both men and women are going through a very hard time right now where they're manipulated like never before by people who profit (in money or power) off driving a wedge between genders. This should be a time where we embrace the removal of a gender gap and let everyone find their own beautiful mix of masculinity and femininity, but instead it often seems to be growing bigger.
Instead of talking to each other, people blame each other for the issues often created by greedy corporations (Tinder deliberately frustrating lonely men to shake quarters from their pockets) or the ruling class (upholding, y'know, the general patriarchy). This is exactly what "they" want but it's saddening to see how well it's working.
Men are dehumanizing women to find an (easy) answer for their loneliness and women are dehumanizing men because they just see shitty men everywhere (and there áre shitty men everywhere). I was so sad when that "your body, my choice" tweet went out and started this wave of very understandable misandry. I truly get it, but it's just so horrible to see how one horrendous person with a platform can do so much damage to an entire gender's image and there's so little us "little men" can do about it.
The world is pretty fucked right now and I just try to focus on the things I can actually influence. That means being nice to the people I interact with, regardless of gender, and trying to improve myself. It won't even come close to offsetting the damage of just a single Nick Fuentes tweet, but it's better than nothing.
Sorry for rambling.
Comment by Opposite-Occasion332 at 31/12/2024 at 03:59 UTC
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I think the issue was more all the men and even school aged boys repeating the phrase, than the fact just one (big platformed) man tweeted it but I agree with your overall point!