#this renewed discourse post-tate is just the old chestnut of 'identify issue blame women for it'

[whentheynameyoujoy]

Getting really tired with the narrative of misogynists being pushed by feminist dismissal of men's issues to embrace violent skidmarks the likes of Andrew Tate. Because I engaged in those men's rights convos for fucking years and they always go exactly the same.

MRA: Male loneliness and alienation is a serious issue, not to mention stuff like high suicide rate or domestic violence and NO ONE CARES!

Me: I agree those are big problems. What's your favourite homeless charity I should donate to?

MRA: Erm...

Me: Suicide prevention hotline?

MRA: Erm...

Me: Victims of prison rape advocacy?

MRA: Erm...

Me: Transmasc shelter?

MRA: Ew.

Me: Senior citizens community centre?

MRA: Erm...

Me: Children's hobby clubs? Community basketball courts? Anything?

MRA: Erm...

Me: What's your favourite work-life balance model to ensure fathers get to spend enough time with their kids?

MRA: Erm...

Me: How would you make mental care more accessible?

MRA: Erm...

Me: Fine, at least give me a link to a male SV survivors shelter, you guys have been bitching about there not being any for literal decades, surely you've finally pulled together and built one.

MRA: Erm...

Me:...

Me: So what's your solution?

MRA: Well women are to blame for all this, of course! Bitches should just get over themselves, make me a sammich, and fuck me!

Me:...

Me: Y'know what I think I'm gonna go finish Tomb Raider.

My dearest men's rights activists, as a woman I'm already socially expected to function as a broodmare for the state while taking on the brunt of child care and having a full time job, naturally amending how I go about it whenever anyone decides You're Doing It Wrong, and then dropping everything to take care of my elderly relatives because women aren't anything if not a cheap source of labour. Like fuck am I taking crap from you for not accepting an Xth shift and building your movement for you. You, on the other hand, are free to pull on your big boy pants and do something for yourselves for fucking once. Just like those hated feminists had to.