‘Men can’t experience sexism’, is both wrong and, ironically, sexist toward men. Sexism is not a one way street, but our narrow perspectives and exclusionary conversations around it often are. Sexism against men, as it is for women, is not just interpersonal - it is structural, legal, and systemic. It’s more than men not being able to wear a dress, or an inability to cry; it is society seeing men as inherent predators, as non-victims, as second class parents, as pigs and deadbeats, undeserving of compassion or support. It is to leave men out in the cold, and to strip fathers of their rights. It is to laugh in the face of those hurting; to scoff at their pain, or bury our heads deep in the sand when they ask for help. It is to name everything bad in the world after them; to call them “toxic” or “fragile”, and to deny the misandry that plagues their existence. Sexism against men is real, as it is against women. The difference is clear: the gatekeepers and arbiters of the conversation of ‘sexism’ have become enamoured with their own dogmatic nonsense, with their puritanical view of women, and the sound of their own voice. Such people – society’s great guardians of morality – have fallen into the doldrums of their own ignorance, morphing into their own worst enemy. So let’s widen that perspective. Let’s ask - what is something sexist toward men that society just ignores? - #mensmentalhealth #malesuicideawareness #mensissues #sexism

2023-12-11