what are men supposed to do with this besides feel bad?
Be aware. I am a large, semi-muscular male, if I am walking down the street and there is a woman by herself I will slow down and give her space or cross to the other side of the road. It really doesn’t take much.
“Uhhh, yes ALL MEN, why would you say not all men?”
“Uh not all of them obviously, I don’t mean the good ones. If you thought I was targeting you when I said all men are bad, threats to innocent people, and need to be kept out of public spaces and valuable positions. Obviously you are a bad person.”
I’m a bigger guy, about 6’3" and about 230 lbs, so I get that I look intimidating some times. But I’ve honestly just walked past a woman and smiled at them and get a nasty look. I go out of my way to put out a happy and positive image and still sometimes get looked at like I’m some threat.
It’s tiring and honestly at some point you just stop caring. I stop smiling and reassuring everyone smaller than me to make them feel better, because what’s the point. I’ve become jaded.
If I’m going to be treated like a bad guy NO MATTER WHAT I ACTUALLY DO, I might as well be a fucking bad guy. Don’t do the crime if you…are going to do the time anyway?
Why am I held to a standard they aren’t? Why are you bitching at me about it?
I’ve never struck a woman. Women have slapped, scratched, punched, kicked, bitten and spit on me. I’ve never sexually assaulted a woman, I was sexually assaulted by female classmates in middle and high school.
Yet I’m increasingly treated as if I’m guilty of all of these things for existing while male.
In all seriousness, what are men supposed to do with this besides feel bad?
Or is that the point?
Speak up when you see other men being abusive jerks. Use peer pressure to improve the behavior instead of excusing it.
Be aware. I am a large, semi-muscular male, if I am walking down the street and there is a woman by herself I will slow down and give her space or cross to the other side of the road. It really doesn’t take much.
If it’s not about you then don’t worry about it
For some of us, like certain spans of the autistic spectrum, that really isn’t a simple ask.
Because we do worry. We do feel empathy. We can’t help but feel like we’re still being lumped in.
We are already so paranoid from a lifetime of being blamed for every little deviation that it’s just more of the same.
“Uhhh, yes ALL MEN, why would you say not all men?”
“Uh not all of them obviously, I don’t mean the good ones. If you thought I was targeting you when I said all men are bad, threats to innocent people, and need to be kept out of public spaces and valuable positions. Obviously you are a bad person.”
That’s the same mentality trump voters have
Not getting mad when someone feels threatened by you is a pretty good start.
Constantly being treated like a bad guy, no matter what you do or how hard you try gets wearing. Right or wrong, it makes some men apathetic.
Either I look really non-threatening, or I’m just oblivious, because I’ve never noticed this. Probably a bit of both.
I’m a bigger guy, about 6’3" and about 230 lbs, so I get that I look intimidating some times. But I’ve honestly just walked past a woman and smiled at them and get a nasty look. I go out of my way to put out a happy and positive image and still sometimes get looked at like I’m some threat.
It’s tiring and honestly at some point you just stop caring. I stop smiling and reassuring everyone smaller than me to make them feel better, because what’s the point. I’ve become jaded.
If I’m going to be treated like a bad guy NO MATTER WHAT I ACTUALLY DO, I might as well be a fucking bad guy. Don’t do the crime if you…are going to do the time anyway?
“Women made me evil”
Yeah, and the Republicans made Canada evil.
Women have treated me in such a way that I’m not longer willing to try considering myself to be on their side.
Why would you believe a position that involves hating an entire gender is at all justified
“We treat all men like rapists because what if one actually is?”
“We treat all women like they’re going to falsely accuse you of rape because what if one actually does?”
“How can you be that evil?”
So your excuse is that some other people of the opposite gender are equally as shitty as you’re planning to be?
Why am I held to a standard they aren’t? Why are you bitching at me about it?
I’ve never struck a woman. Women have slapped, scratched, punched, kicked, bitten and spit on me. I’ve never sexually assaulted a woman, I was sexually assaulted by female classmates in middle and high school.
Yet I’m increasingly treated as if I’m guilty of all of these things for existing while male.
So fuck off pretending I’m at fault here.