#and the expectations for men isolate them & demands they be strong & emotionless
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every day on this cursed webbed site i come across some of the stupidest fucking opinions i've ever seen and i'm honestly so so strong for not engaging
#listen to me okay this is really important: men are not your enemies#our patriarchal system values then more than women in general yes#but the system takes far far more from them than it pretends to give#the slow work of dismantling it has left behind the bones of systemic expectations for how men & women are supposed to be#and the expectations for men isolate them & demands they be strong & emotionless#but isolation & suppressing your emotions do horrible things to humans; we're social creatures! we NEED connections with others!!#if you can't scrape up an ounce of sympathy for men who are struggling (under a system we're trying to dismantle)#how on earth do you expect them to sympathize with you? when you dismiss or mock their very real pain#men are not a different eviler species!! that is just a pink washed version of what the people who built the patriarchal system believed!!!#the similarities between modern terf bioessentialist takes & medieval patriarchal ones are uncanny because they're based on the same bullshi#both treat men & women as separate competing species!!! but we're not!! we're in this together!!#and real men & women have NEVER naturally fit into neat artificial categories#framing the fight against the harmful patriarchal structures & norms as a fight against men is both stupidly innacurate & self-defeating!#men today did not build the patriarchy!! theyre suffering under it alongside us!!!!#imagine how powerful the movement if we actually tried connecting with men instead of treating them as proxies for structural problems#imagine how much we could accomplish if we worked together to dismantle the systems & norms that harm us?
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