I Feel Like Shit Because of All the Anti-Men Stuff Being Spread Around

a-man-from-earth · 2021-03-14T01:32:24+00:00

Please let us be supportive, as OP has indicated he is depressed and is affected by the outpouring of misandry that we're all dealing with now.

I am here for you. We are all here for you. Let's stand together.

2021-03-14T02:19:27+00:00

Not to start an argument, but doesn't this show society isn't that patriarchal? It feels like a lot of men are bothered about the anti-male sentiment being spread, but we have no power to do anything about it. The people who spread it don't care how we feel or how it affects us. There are probably a lot of men who go along with it, because they don't want to be shunned.

I agree with r/MensRights being reactionary quite a bit. It can also try to constantly peddle a victim narrative.

Your position is exactly the same as me though. There was a point where I'd never heard of Men's Rights. When I first did, I didn't think we really needed a movement, even if they had some valid concerns.

Like you, the reason I'm here is anti-male sentiment. Unfortunately, it has been around for at least a decade now. I noticed it back in maybe 2010, and it slowly became more and more mainstream. These subs were the only place I could go to actually discuss it. This murder was just the catalyst for everyone who endorses it, to speak up at once.

You mention anti-feminist like it's a bad thing, or that it's anti-women, or anti-women's rights. I'm very pro women. But unfortunately, the current anti-male sentiment you're affected by, originates from internet style feminism. It's like r/MensRights on steroids. People who live a cushy first world life, trying to find any issue they can to portray themselves as collective victims, and men as collective perpetrators.

Something like only 15% of women identify as feminist, and it's because of this. But there seems to have been an increase in social pressure to identify as feminist and accept their exact view on gender.

I've been in these kinds of subs for several years now, and it hasn't made me hate women at all. When I go to TwoXChromosomes or the feminism sub, I see a ton of anti-male sentiment. You'll get the occasional shit heel on MensRights, but most people downvote them. On r/feminism, the anti-male sentiment gets upvoted, and the few who criticise it get mass downvoted.

The only effect these subs have had, is to make me fearful about possible discrimination I'm going to face. I thought I was being paranoid, and that things would never get that bad and mainstream, but here we are.

A word of warning though: the people spreading anti-male sentiment absolutely despise these subs. They smear them as misogynistic, because it's the simplest way for them to ignore their concerns, and it places massive social pressure for people to avoid them.

Title	I Feel Like Shit Because of All the Anti-Men Stuff Being Spread Around
Author	DepressedMfer
Upvotes	3
Comments	2
Date	March 14, 2021 12:49 AM UTC (5 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates
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