yeah, I’m feeling a bit clueless as to why this is feeling like such an injury to men …
unhelpful rant
and as an aside, do they not realize how much their feelings and desires as men are centered in society all the time, as a default?
the world has been built for them with rarely a thought to the contrary e.g.
women haven’t been included in clinical trials, and women end up in the hospital at much higher rates than men because of drug complications as a result
crash testing is mostly modeled on men and this results in greater rates of injuries and fatalities for women in car accidents
phone sizes are sized based around male hands sizes making them too large for women
the thermostats in public are set to temperatures more comfortable for men than women
CPR dummies are only ever male and CPR training on female bodies is not common, resulting in increased deaths because people don’t feel comfortable performing CPR on women (either due to sexualization of women and modesty norms, or lack of confidence from not training on a female body).
the number of bathroom stalls is based on men’s needs, resulting in long waiting lines to use the women’s room
Even the idea of women being in public has been a rather recent change in the West, only in the past couple centuries, and at first women always had to be kept in segregated spaces away from men - they had to ride in their own train cars, use their own library rooms, etc.
Women in the US only recently managed to own their own property, secure their own lines of credit, have their own bank accounts, etc. - the only thing like this applied to men has been slavery, but even that was applied to men and women, not men exclusively.
Advancement for women does not diminish men, and it’s so weird to see such sensitivity and fear from the elevation of women from sub-human status to closer-to-equal status.
That said, obviously patriarchy informs toxic gender norms that tell men that they shouldn’t express or have feelings, and those norms are reinforced by both men and women - but the problem is still the patriarchy, not the elevation of women or the movement for gender equality (i.e. feminism).
The issue with this is the men society is catering to are some sort of patriachial male ideal, which is very toxic and unhealthy for many real-world men. So no, society doesn’t really cater to the feelings of men.
Though that doesn’t really matter for the stuff you mentioned that’s just about male biology. And obviously this isn’t the place to bring up men in the first place.
yeah, I’m feeling a bit clueless as to why this is feeling like such an injury to men …
unhelpful rant
and as an aside, do they not realize how much their feelings and desires as men are centered in society all the time, as a default?
the world has been built for them with rarely a thought to the contrary e.g.
Even the idea of women being in public has been a rather recent change in the West, only in the past couple centuries, and at first women always had to be kept in segregated spaces away from men - they had to ride in their own train cars, use their own library rooms, etc.
Women in the US only recently managed to own their own property, secure their own lines of credit, have their own bank accounts, etc. - the only thing like this applied to men has been slavery, but even that was applied to men and women, not men exclusively.
Advancement for women does not diminish men, and it’s so weird to see such sensitivity and fear from the elevation of women from sub-human status to closer-to-equal status.
That said, obviously patriarchy informs toxic gender norms that tell men that they shouldn’t express or have feelings, and those norms are reinforced by both men and women - but the problem is still the patriarchy, not the elevation of women or the movement for gender equality (i.e. feminism).
The issue with this is the men society is catering to are some sort of patriachial male ideal, which is very toxic and unhealthy for many real-world men. So no, society doesn’t really cater to the feelings of men.
Though that doesn’t really matter for the stuff you mentioned that’s just about male biology. And obviously this isn’t the place to bring up men in the first place.