How many times have you gone out and seen a man crying and thought "ooooo well I should leaveeee" or maybe even "heck he may be mentally unstable"?

How many times have you felt tears gathering in your eyes but repeated the old saying that you were told billions of times during your developemental years and even to date "man up" "quit being a pussy" and the emotions kept on building up until it's gotten to the point where you attempted to cry in private, but can't?

How many times have you seen a man getting berated, threatened, or even beaten by a girl in public and thought "man, I wonder what has he done to piss her off that bad"?

How many times have you told a man who confessed he's suffering some form of abuse (emotional, physical, sexual, psychological, narcissistic etc) to "try and talk it out with her" or gave some other form of advice you would never in a thousand years give to a woman due to the risks?

How many times have you gotten uncomfortable from a man even looking at your children, when you wouldn't even bat an eye to a woman walking up to and talking with them?

And if you answered none to all of those, ask yourself, how would you react if this happened in real life?

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It's a silly phenomena I've noticed. I always thought about this movement as one intended to fix social stigma, but never took a minute to look inside myself. Whenever I'm working on a post here, I always cringe for a second at the possible backlash from people. However, I take a second and ask myself; would I feel the same if I were to be posting something similar as a female WRA? The answer is usually no, because I would recognize that people who would retaliate would be misogynists. So, then why do I feel such a fear of posting the same thing as a male MRA? It is the same thing, literally just flipped genders. I've realized that as a society, we tend to overlook men. Even as MRAs, we may still have some doubts about the authenticity of male victims of abuse, or treat them extraordinarily different than we would if it was a female. Would you ever tell a woman who is being sexually abused to have a conversation with her abuser? No, because you'd recognize both the woman's fear and the risks that could come with this (she could be physically attacked, she could lose her job if he's a higher up at work, she could be gaslighted into thinking this is normal behavior). So then, why would you even consider telling a man something similar? It is because we presume that since he's a man, he'd be able to easily restrain her if she attempts to attack him. But we don't even consider the fact that maybe she could bring a weapon, or hit his vitals which would lead to possible lethal repercussions. As a society, we presume that as the stronger sex, men have a greater range of options when it comes to these things when they just don't. I've dubbed this phenomena internalized misandry; a prejudice against men that is within all of us. Let's work together to try and get rid of this leash and break free.