r/MensLib 16d ago

The cure for male loneliness is feminism. Seriously.

https://makemenemotionalagain.substack.com/p/the-cure-for-male-loneliness-is-feminism

Curious your thoughts! I wrote about how the answer to male loneliness is caring, and how caring is really, really hard. Especially for those of us who’ve been socialized as men. We’ve been told that anything outside of going to work or optimizing ourselves by lifting weights, sitting in ice baths, and pounding creatine isn’t worth much. That caring for others isn’t a “productive” or “efficient” use of our time. That someone else will always end up doing it. That we’re not supposed to do it because women are naturally, biologically designed for it and we’re not (which is untrue). That if we do it, we’re less valuable, like a woman, less of a man. But showing up and caring is both good for other people and us. We have to do more of it.

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u/Your_Nipples 16d ago

Thank you. As a black dude, this sounds absolutely wild.

There's absolutely no way I would align myself with people having to translate to me "ethical bigotry", "see, when we say that men are trash, it's not that they are literally trash you know and if you have a problem with that, it means that you're trash".

I've seen enough MAGA chuds translating bigotry with the same tactics.

They do (feminists) what they have to do, I won't be in their way but I'm sure as hell won't be their pawn.

The audacity seriously lmao.

Wait, I'm not even lonely, I have a lot of friends, so... How that happened without being a feminist?

I'm sick of everyone preying on young men with their BS (red pill nonsense, MAGA nonsense, white feminism).

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u/Stop-Hanging-Djs 15d ago

Yeah, let's be honest. These articles most of the time ain't talking about black men. Ain't talking about asian men. Or latino, indigineous etc. Almost always white cis dudes. Like we all have the same issues as white guys.

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u/MonoBlancoATX 16d ago

Yup.

Intersectional (or liberation) feminism really is where it's at.

But the people in all those groups you listed don't want to hear that shit cuz they're busy destroying the world we all live in.

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u/Your_Nipples 15d ago

It is so bizarre. This whole thread.

You'll see another comment right here making a quick summary of the article, and the gist of it is something that any chill religious person could have said (nothing to do with feminism).

It's like they try to recruit men (without scaring them) while trying to patent as their own universally shared principals.

Yeah, before feminism, there was absolutely no such thing as taking care of yourself, your family and be a good person.

Someone's "male tears" mugs have been dusted in a warehouse since 2016, nahhhh. Won't fall for that.

I'll read the article though because I need data to feed my cynicism.

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