Being a male on this sub is hard too.

Like I said, not the same extent, but is it not the same as far as interpersonal bigotry/discrimination for lack of a better word? Clearly there's no systemic oppression of men. There are two situations where one says "no xyz" due to their personal experience with a demographic, you're saying when it's men it's different as opposed to any other group because there's no systemic oppression or history of violence against them for being men.

Does that make it any less harmful to the newer generation of men that get things saying "Men are trash for being men" shoved in their face constantly due to the nature of social media, and develop internalized misandry to find a place like this where they hope to find friends and then see "No men" especially if that post happened to be someone they thought they could be good friends with due to similar interests etc, but they can't even try because "No men"

Of course it's not the same systemically but to the individual guy that goes through that personally do you think your distinction of how systemically other groups have had it worse makes it any less harmful to them or their mental health?

I am Mexican and grew up in East Los Angeles, and have been all around, I can tell you personally, I have experienced more interpersonal bigotry/sexism as a guy in the last few years than racism for being POC in my whole life. I'm also aware that, that doesn't mean there's no or less racism than sexism. I was just fortunate in that case. But that's my point, I am self aware of that and the struggles and oppression of my people and in the end can just shrug off the casual sexism/bigotry towards men that's becoming common place in certain areas. I can, other's cant.

Your argument is that since men systematically are not oppressed, that on an interpersonal level they should, "suck it up and be a man", when they get treated the same way that would be called racism/sexism if a minority or a woman.

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