What’s Wrong with Wanting to be Loved?

ExpendableOne · 2012-04-10T19:42:37+00:00

There's a lot to be said about the state of apathy towards male suffering that society tends to either tolerate or encourage, and plenty more to be said about the many ways in which the majority of women often take being loved/desired for granted, simply because they don't have to struggle for it the way men do(A privilege which they benefit from virtually from birth). When men suffer emotionally, people are quick to call them weak, needy or entitled for expressing basic human needs; to dismiss their suffering; or even to further punish/shame those men for even speaking out because it's not the masculine way or because it's just easier to not have to deal with it.

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-04-11T08:26:15+00:00

I totally agree. In a divorce both families nearly always side with the mother. The insults people use against men that they wouldn't use on a dog, a dog deserves love innately, a man doesn't.

NiceIce · 2012-04-10T23:31:54+00:00

Excellent article. I always like the Spearhead.

FieldMarshallFacile · 2012-04-11T03:04:41+00:00

I downvoted this article for lines like "Young feminists whose most important concern is the ability to have sex entirely free of consequences, and who shamelessly raise their voices for the right to kill their children in the womb. Lesbian gender feminists who wreck families for profit and sex. Male feminists who boast about fathering children and shuffling their responsibilities onto some duped cuckold, and who malign their fellow men for a crack at college girls. "

This is a hateful rant and a strawman fallacy, and it discredits the legitimate points raised in the article. If the image of male advocacy groups like MR is to improve, then this kind of stuff has to disappear.

AntiFeministMedia · 2012-04-16T13:11:22+00:00

An insightful article, followed by a lot of great comments.

bellzook · 2012-04-11T03:25:21+00:00

Is there an an undercurrent that men as a gender are not taught how to deal with rejection? That would be a pretty good MRM thing to move towards- it seems like an emotional health issue.

Title	What’s Wrong with Wanting to be Loved?
Author	truthman2000
Upvotes	27
Comments	12
Date	April 10, 2012 6:39 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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