I recently read a post about a dude who calls out misogyny all the time on real life and on reddit, and how him doing that was the bare minimum.

For fucks sake, that's definitely not the bare minimum. You will obviously think the bar is on the floor for men if you actually believe that spending multiple hours of your week calling out misogyny is the bare minimum.

Doing nothing is the bare minimum.

And unfortunately, we have dozens of extremely serious issues even outside of our stressful day to day life. Most people can't give hours of their week to a single issue that you believe in. Most people can't do more than the actual bare minimum for every single topic under the sun.

Imagine you want to be a feminist as a man. You read up dozens of books, spend time learning about feminist terms after a 10 hour day at work, always be paranoid enough to look around in your surroundings for the smallest hint of something that can be perceived as misogyny to the point where people make fun of you, abandon your own gender's struggles, never expect people to defend you but selflessly and stupidly defend women, and people actively tell you that you are doing the bare minimum.

I am sure many men have had these experiences.

I know it felt like a slap on the face when feminists told that to a 22 year old me. Y'all really had the audacity to say that I was doing the bare minimum when I acted like a human shield when my friend got sexually harassed by a much bigger man?

How fucking dare you?

I work in an animal shelter now, you bet your ass no one tells me I am doing the bare fucking minimum for animals, because that's monumentally stupid.

Yet, I was brainwashed enough to actually believe that I was the stupid one for thinking I was doing anything more than the bare minimum when I LITERALLY RISKED MY FUCKING LIFE.

We don't tell women on here that they are doing the bare minimum for men, and I would never want any woman on here to EVER feel that way. I want to thank them for their love, support and curiosity, even if they disagree with us on certain issues or have completely different beliefs.. They are spending time from their life listening to us, that's fucking phenomenal.