There is so much open hostility toward men online – trash, dogs, pigs, predators, entitled, dangerous, fragile, toxic… The list of specialist slurs to be flung at men are too numerous to name. But whilst the squarks and whines of such social media brats are hardly new, something even more bizarre happens to anyone who explains that they find such assertions offensive. “WELL IF YOU’RE NOT LIKE THAT, THEN THIS ISN’T ABOUT YOU. AND IF YOU’RE OFFENDED, THEN YOU’RE PART OF THE PROBLEM.” 👆Have you seen that too? Apparently it’s okay to insult men as a group, as men can simply switch off their emotions and needn’t take offence. Just imagine if I said – ‘women can’t drive’. Could I form a defence by saying ‘well if you can drive, then this isn’t about you, and if you’re offended, your part of the problem!’ Of course I could not. I would be mobbed for such ignorance, and rightly so. So why can we not extend this same decency to men and boys? Do words hurt them any less? Is it time we stopped telling men what they can, or can’t, be offended by? What do you think? ~ Images by Codioful, Dave, Black Kiwi Hug, Christopher Burns, Gemma Chua Tran, Geronimo Giqueaux from Unsplash.

2023-09-07