Edit: Okay, wow. if the statement from a woman of “we owe you nothing” immediately sets you off emotionally, I would really encourage you to think through why that might be.

A more systemic phrasing could have been “we owe the patriarchy nothing”. I changed it to that for a second before realizing, again, that it was fine. A guy that has worked through internalized patriarchy around this will understand it’s not about them.

Patriarchy on the whole conditions men towards having a sense of entitlement towards women’s bodies, time, attention, labor, etc. It also conditions women that they should feel obligated to provide this without setting boundaries or expecting reciprocal solidarity.

Remember, we literally all have degrees of internalized bigotry, misogyny, racism, transphobia, etc because these are systemic issues. Our responsibility to ourselves and our comrades is to work through that. You are not a bad person for finding those brainworms in yourself, only if you refuse to do the work to address them.

  • vccx [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Just buy a therapist :maybe-later-kiddo:

    Men should be able to talk to each other and support each other equally to women, this post feels like lib punching down tho

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah it feels like it's missing the actual issue.

      Especially the "insecure" part. Like damn, way to diminish men's feelings down to insecurity.