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More men should read The will to change by bell hooks. Patriarchy hurts men in different ways than it does women, we are all oppressed by it, including gender-nonconforming individuals. Patriarchy stunts male emotional health and creates these unhealthy repressed feelings. Rather than blaming women, men should look towards the systems that impact our daily lives and how they force us into little boxes we don't always fit neatly into naturally, suffocating us and justifying the general subjugation of women, which in no unclear terms exceeds the suffering of men under patriarchy.

I'm currently a stay at home husband who does all the cooking, cleaning and dishes. I never felt manlier and have never been so attractive to women (according to my wifes friends at least). Looking forward to our first child arriving soon.

I have plenty of single male friends who seem stuck in their early 20s (even though they're approaching 40). Their only care in the world seem to be "the economy" (something they barely understand), and whatever the newest *-maxxing scam is being promoted on Instagram that will magically make women gravitate towards them. They're all pretty good looking and mostly nice people. The main problem being that they're cheapskates and won't lift a finger for anything not directly benefitting themselves. They don't know how to cook, and learning anything unrelated to their jobs is seen as a "waste of time".

I'm very happy I didn't get stuck in that sort of rut as I've seen how easy it was for my friends.

There's not a male loneliness epidemic.

There's a loneliness epidemic.

https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf

"Joking" by trying to turn this into men vs women is pretty gross.

Memes is now shitting on genders ? Y'all fuckers don't know shit about empathy, and about memes either.

The guys saying the top three things aren't necessarily the same as those saying the bottom thing. But there is definitely some overlap. Which is depressing. Though, I mean is that really that surprising given the state of the world and how stupid the average person is?

The loneliness epidemic also effects women. We're all more lonely and miserable these days. I think really men and women are alienated from each other in large numbers due to internet brain rot. And being too broke to do anything outside except like... go to a public park or a library or something.

The shitty rightwing politics comes after, the average person is too stupid to not get immediately sucked into manipulative rightwing grift when they're painfully lonely.

I say this as I consume internet brain rot myself. Though at least its on Lemmy and not Tik Tok, Reddit, or Facebook, and its during work, not my free time.

Couldn't agree more, but if you think about it...

I wish we could all come together from all gender identities, nationalities, political affiliations, social strata, educational background, skin color, hair color, favorite music style and belief system and just accepted that while circumstances are different for every one of us, there are a few really bad people, a few really good people and a lot of people that just need to feel like they belong to something in all of those dimensions.

But I guess if we did that, how would the really bad people get their votes or money from us?

I hope toxic men stop being toxic and I'm sorry to everyone that has ever been hurt by a toxic man.

• Women are male lonliness
• Everything and everyone is weakness
• I've made hating dishwashers my entire personality
• There's a empathy epidemic

I'll add that people aren't being hugged, & touched enough. Also, infrastructure sucks to encourage socializing

Its an epidemic of that. We are social creatures. That's our main motto

When we work together, live in groups, etc we all feel better. Reminds us of our tribe days

A big part of human connection is being physical with each other in a chill way. So try to hug your bros more, & get things done as a unit with women!

Both sides are supposed to be allies to each other

This is just a toxic gender wars meme. Go outside, touch some grass, meet someone nice and move on with life. Memes like this come from and perpetuate the loneliness epidemic.

Boys are taught to ignore emotions (“are you crying? Man up!”)

But emotions is what connects humans (and animals for that matter) and can’t really be ignored anyway

Join the two… and you get loneliness, frustration, rage.

We should start a conversation on emotional education (not only for boys but especially for boys)