Alison Tieman's brilliant and moving address for International Men's Day

2017-11-20T20:06:48+00:00

In my family right now, we're dealing with my older brother's job loss. He's 50, with no appreciable skills, with about an 85 IQ because of a dozen heavily impactful seizures in his infancy from his epilepsy. He has, or had, two employers. The first recognized that he would likely not be employed without the kindness of strangers, and so has kept him on all these years, despite his clear issues, and the family has worked with them to smooth it as best we can. We see what they do, and so send them a care package every Christmas, just to let them know we're aware.

We know they could fire him and hire someone half his age and get 50% more work out of them, right out of the gate, and that's precisely what his other employer ultimately did. They 'laid him off' for lack of work, and then immediate put a job notice up on Indeed to replace his position.

Every time I think of someone smearing 'men' with their generalizations, I think of him. He'll never marry. He'll never date. He's never had sex. He'll never be financially secure.

But he's white, and he's male, and thus fits the stereotype, so he's 'privileged'.

Thanks, Alison. I really needed to hear this today.

StorkKing · 2017-11-20T17:51:17+00:00

This ranks right up there with her fellow honey badger Karen Straughan's best imo.

Thank you /u/typhonblue

Ordinate1 · 2017-11-20T18:22:45+00:00

"The moment a man asks for help is the moment he forfeits all right to it."

Title	Alison Tieman's brilliant and moving address for International Men's Day
Author	StorkKing
Upvotes	22
Comments	3
Date	November 20, 2017 5:50 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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