In case you were unaware, yesterday was International Men’s Day.
If you use Google, you would not have known this because they didn’t have a doodle for it the way they did for International Women’s Day.
The powers that be that posted on Twitter decided that the most important thing about International Men’s Day was to elevate men being allies.
Then there was shit like this:
And lots of people reposted this image:
Men need to stop being lectured about how to be men by Woke scolds or actives who are not or were not raised by men.
“Men are not allowed to show emotion” or “men are only allowed to show anger” is the sort of think that is the punchline of shitty comedy, not an understanding of what men really are like.
I went through a rough patch when I was unemployed. I saw a therapist. She was not helpful.
I am a man, I am a husband and a father. My duty is to my family. What gets me out of bet in the morning is that I have people that depend on me.
What I needed was a job. I needed a job commensurate with my intelligence, skills, and qualifications. My therapist didn’t seem to understand that need that existed. Without the ability to adequate provide for my family I was nothing.
When you read about helping veterans with PTSD, one of the most important things that can be done is for male veterans is to get a productive job. It’s also recommended that they get a pet, especially a dog, someone who they can take care of.
Simply talking really doesn’t help men. Men are doers.
I agree with the principle of helping men, and addressing the issues of drug abuse, over dose deaths, and suicide in men.
According to the Woke internet, that is done by fighting the patriarchy and gender stereotypes about men.
They are less interested in what men actually need and more interested in telling men they should be less like men.
It’s no coincidence that alcoholism, drug abuse, overdosed, and suicide follow unemployment and exist in much higher rates in places where the economy is in the shitter.
Productive men, men who have families that they take care of, are much better off. The pressure of supporting a loving family rarely breaks men. Being made redundant and being unable to support a family is much more damaging.
The focus on men should be on helping them rebuild their place in society as a respected breadwinner, not talking it out with a government paid-for therapist.
These people don’t want to help men as men, they want to make men into not men.
If you don’t understand what men really are, and just assume they are the stereotype of a bad sitcom or a women’s studies professor’s lecture, you are not helping and you need to shut the fuck up.
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