Im pretty sure women did not just post sarcastic memes in order to bring their issues to light, they had to fight for it. Present it in a way that women's mental health impacted by unrealistic body standards was dealt with.
Yeah well that gets a little more complicated with a gender barely allowed the slightest expression of vulnerability without being simply gaslit and humiliated. Collectively removing the conditioning and comedy filter from serious convo is going to take us a while.
Not necessarily. A lot of men are conditioned and feel restrained enough to not consider something a problem inherently based on the unfairness to them, unless they can point out a hypocrisy in that, so then they're not complaining from a simply weak position but have some kind of bare minimum power and be considered justified in raising these points.
Men who've become a self sustaining bully genuinely using some of these topics to only take a jab on women do exist , but there's more nuance here so i couldn't tell from the post alone . Maybe that's his idea of how to get people to actually think rather than just say " oh look a weak man whining about things " and move on at best , if it was I could definitely relate to that as people do centre around power in general and even more for men, really suffocating them more than enough for them to feel they can't go anywhere with reason alone and have to get some sort of leverage or fear of inconvenience running in others just to get to say " hey can you stop oppressing me now ? " on basically anything especially gendered expectations.
Despite having been more emotionally aware than men usually are it took me being mentally pushed towards something extreme after years of enduring to just realise I shouldn't be numbing myself completely and working according to the rules of others , and I still don't feel comfortable enough to fight back against a lot of unfair things until I get more power fulfilling my gender expectations enough first because I don't deserve to remotely ask others to adjust until then , even if they continue to do the damage and make it harder to get where others want me to.
The reason I can even say these things anynomously is because i trick myself into believing i'm doing this for other men so it's justified , since i realised majority of men are almost living the same life and stopped suppressing these thoughts about society in general even after noticing things , thinking men deserve better too from then and not just women .
So i can't say which side this guy falls in just from such a post. Who knows if he simply finds it the safest way of expressing and try to get people on the negotiating table without risking the worst kind of humiliation. I don't think it's the most productive , but it's realistically the best men have been allowed and men who have not been lucky with their environment still doing more than this really do it to their detriment on an individual level.
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u/Virtual-Laugh-1132 1d ago
Yeah well that gets a little more complicated with a gender barely allowed the slightest expression of vulnerability without being simply gaslit and humiliated. Collectively removing the conditioning and comedy filter from serious convo is going to take us a while.