They were not giving advice. they were mocking men and dismissing male loneliness as a non-issue.
I don’t know the solution for loneliness specifically, but hatred towards men for being virgins or being unsuccessful with women will only exacerbate the issue.
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Yeah, that’s why they’ve latched on to toxic masculinity, that way they can say that discrimination faced by men is actually misogyny and continue saying misandry doesn’t exist.
Of course, though I would apply those expectations on everybody. I meant expectations based on gender such as providing, protecting, etc.
Expecting men to behave a certain way and shaming them for not doing so is misandry. The same way shaming women who don’t want to be housewives is misogyny.
“society expects men to be fearless and brave” is misandry
Yes, the counterpart feminists will typically use is internalised misogyny. They never use toxic femininity and usually get angry if someone mentions it, which says they are completely aware of the victim blaming nature of the term. They believe that sexism against men actually roots from misogyny, hence their reluctance with terms like misandry or internalised misandry. Agency plays a big role in this as well, men are thought to have complete control over their lives whereas women are thought to have little to no agency.
I agree, seems like a concern trolling.
Secondhand Lions is really good.
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We have always referred to toxic gender roles for women as misogyny or internalised misogyny, so I would argue that we should use the equivalent term, misandry instead of toxic masculinity.
My theory on the reason they pick examples that supports their agenda is because it’s all a zero sum game to them. Claiming that fighting toxic masculinity will solve men’s issues, requires little to no funding. They fear that funding of actual men’s mental health or abuse services will reduce funding for women’s organisations. The owners and CEO’s of women’s organisations rely on government funding to fill their pockets which is why Women’s Aid tried protesting against funding men’s services around 2-3 years ago.
Yes, essentially it makes it look like they’re doing something when really they aren’t.
Also, if men don’t like the term, they should respect that instead of forcing it on them. Often times when a man is asking for support, there is a person lecturing him about toxic masculinity. They care more about people using the term and spreading their propaganda than to actually offer real help.
I was confused at first, but that is actually the woman in question, Tanya Lord.
It’s ridiculous but here’s what lawmakers had to say about female on male rape:
‘We did consider whether there was evidence that a woman could force a man to penetrate her against his will but, although we found a little anecdotal evidence, we did not discover sufficient to convince us that this was the equivalent of rape.’
This is after stating that rape is most serious and harmful of sexual offences.
I think there is an error in reporting. Firstly, a woman cannot be charged with rape unless she aids a man in committing it, not the case here. Secondly, if she was charged with rape, the bare minimum is a 4 year custodial sentence.
The more likely scenario is that she was charged with ‘sexual activity without consent’ which explains the more lenient sentencing.
Just realised that she was given a 4 year sentence, I got confused with the time she has to serve in prison.
What doesn’t get mentioned about the clinical trials is that some of the men were infertile for a few years after they stopped taking birth control and in one case, he was rendered permanently infertile. Some cases resulted in low sperm count as well.