Men who conform to traditional gender roles are at a higher risk of suicide
A study has shown that men who want to live up to the standard role of strength and independence have a particularly high risk of suicide.
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An evergreen bell hooks quote:
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.
For any men near the beginning of their journey to adopt of a more healthy masculinity, The Will To Change by bell hooks is an excellent read
If anyone's interested in reading through it with others, we have a book club going for this book right now! It's a fantastic read so far and we just started!
Yeah, but ...hexbear? Ferreal? 🫣
Everyone involved in the book club is taking it seriously and we've had great discussions so far without any irony poisoning. You don't need to be a commie or an anarchist to get a lot out of the experience, we just want more people who will earnestly engage with the work.
I might, in all honesty, and thank you. I'll have to go find how thoroughly I've blocked that instance (TIL: my filters are not fully synced between devices), but I appreciate knowing this is out there, at the least.
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At first, I had to question why I was seeing a question like this, then I remembered where I was. But if I start talking trash about dbzer0 like this here, my shit's finna get pinched.
1.) Yeah, but it's hexbear.
2.) Use gloves.
The film nights are pretty good too.
Jesus, that cuts. 🥹😶
patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.
This isn't exclusive to men, women do this too. Even many that say they want a "sensitive" guy don't actually in my experience, they want a guy that can be empathetic to others (namely them) but still have no feelings of his own, just try to cry in front of one (especially for anything less than a death of someone close, or as I've been told before "yeah we don't like it when guys cry for stupid reasons but if there's something like your mom died sure. I want a sensitive guy not a pussy.")
Call it the patriarchy all you want, but women certainly reinforce it too, IME even some that espouse hatred for it turn around and reinforce it in the same breath.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals...