I tried, you know.

I truly believed that the gender issues were all just due to a failure of communication. I suggested, in the most objective and beneficial way, that we seem to just not understand one another. I shed my guts trying to portray humility about my pain and concerns. I did what I never do. I put a post on this stupid website I've been on for over 10 years. Desperately looking for help and conversation and compassion.

And you know what I got in reply?

Sexism and hypocrisy.

The absolute personification of the lack of humanity I was trying to rally against. I got a reply saying that men need to stand up for themselves instead of asking women to stand up for us. You know what we get told when we stand up for ourselves? That we're monsters. I was TRYING to stand up for myself. I was ASKING for help and advise.

And I got mowed down.

Because the hypocrisy and false narrative perpetuated by our culture is insurmountable. It just is. And I'm so tired of trying to find a middle ground or a place I can live with morally.

There is no place.

There is no group that will listen.

So I'm done.

I am done begging for a middle ground.

It doesn't exist.

And I'm done pretending that it does.

Or that I can find it.