For example workplace harrasment by women towards males like touching or groping being ignored because the victim is male but if it where to happen to a woman by a male the male would be fired

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    545·
    2 months ago

    ITT about male victims of sexism-based double-standard, we see

    • stories of female victims
    • downvoting stories of male victims
    • the top-voted post about how men can’t speak up for fear of being shouted down

    Wow, Lemmy. Be better than Reddit.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      207·
      2 months ago

      That is exactly why I’m downvoting many of the comments here. Not personal stories, but all the “men have it so much worse” comments, which are ultimately just toxic against women.

      Because holy fuck, that was exactly Reddit, and I do not want this place to end up the same. We already have a massive imbalance between the genders and if we men start discrediting women, they’re most fucking definitely not going to show up here.

      I do want men to be able to speak about abuse stories. That is where our patriarchical society kills men, in that it does not allow us to show weakness. But it cannot fucking devolve into a us vs. them discussion, which this whole question is locked and loaded towards. That is not helpful to anyone.