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[–]RevengeOfTheCis 79 insightful - 4 fun79 insightful - 3 fun80 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

YES, this fucking shit right here!

The oh so mean and horrible things said to men pressure them to... what? Earn more money? Be more independent? Stand up for themselves?

So if men do what they're told, they end up... successful? And if they don't, they end up what? Less successful?

Women are told to HOLD THEMSELVES BACK, men are told to SUCCEED. Are we really going to pretend those messages have an equal effect on people? Jesus.

[–]Confuzzled[S] 50 insightful - 3 fun50 insightful - 2 fun51 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

I see it ALL the time online. Every time anyone brings up women’s struggles, it instantly becomes “oh but men have these struggles too, look at me I’m a man”. And everytime FGM gets brought up, some man HAS to bring up circumcision as if it’s the same at all, disregarding the whole misogynistic and deadly culture of it. I’m just so fucking sick of it.

I am so glad this community of women exists so I can let my thoughts out, because I fear that if I wrote this on a mainstream feminist subreddit, there would be people going nOT ALL MEN!

[–]ekitten 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Urgh, the bit about FGM reminded me that there was an advert on TV in the UK for a charity that helps protect girls from FGM and child marriage. When my dad saw it, he immediately went "and what about all of the boys dying from starvation!?". It's maddening.

[–]spinningIntelligence 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Girls are immune to starvation, after all. That's why girls are often given less food than their brothers.