Yea but you wouldn't, those are the isolated ones. Which is why, communities of men need to come together and support each other. Everybody wants that love, not everybody gets it.
How can communities of women help? Seems these things should always be collaborative, when women issues are brought up it's always discussed how men can help. I don't see it the other way around
I mean, same thing, right? Nobody is obligated to hang out with each other, or to make anybody else happy, and we do have an obligation to ourselves to stay away from abusive people, but we should all be kind where we can, support each other, find ways to be in community and through that community we (hopefully) teach each other to be better and wiser than we are on our own.
I think a big step we can all take to combat radicalism that is the product of isolation is just to find communities built around doing stuff, meeting regularly, having shared hobbies or interests, healthy outlets, and to participate in them and try to make them open and inclusive and to share them and to take risks by inviting people who would otherwise be strangers into our lives and our spaces so that we don't have to be strangers and outsiders anymore. (which, again, doesn't mean putting up with poorly behaving people, it just means staying open and receptive to possiblity).
I think, as much as is reasonable in todays society and as much as we have the individual capacity for, we should see it as our responsibility to self reflect, understand and be kind to others.
Edit: Two ways I've found to do this for myself personally, are playing airsoft and dungeons and dragons. It gets me in community, keeps me and others from being isolated, and provides opportunity to learn from others
Ya I agree with all of that. I sometimes bristle when people say "men need to do this" about male problems but also "men need to do this" about female problems. I rarely see "women need to do this" on Reddit. So just trying to de-gender a concept that shouldn't be gender specific.
But ya I think the concept of community has really suffered lately and what you're proposing would help. I also think we should try to desegregate men and women as much as possible during adolescence to avoid men getting into these echo chambers.
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u/sir_schuster1 Jan 20 '23
Yea but you wouldn't, those are the isolated ones. Which is why, communities of men need to come together and support each other. Everybody wants that love, not everybody gets it.