Please correct me if I'm wrong and biased by my feelings. I know that women experience so many sorts of injustice

But I strongly doubt a woman can experience or even imagine the amount of hate, and prejudice and blame that a man experience on average, just for existing as a man.

I feel like if they actually understand this, things would be better.

There has to be a reason why men suicide is 3 to 4 times more.

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bijouxbroussard · F

Women fear men, in a way that men rarely have to fear women, at least once they’re adults. If you consider the number of times girls and women have disappeared or whose bodies have been found, raped and murdered, there’s no comparison. And the only thing those victims had in common was being female. There’s no question that men and boys face danger too, but it’s most often at the hands of other men.

There’s a quote that is largely true:

As to why men commit suicide more often than women, it could be because of the unrealistic expectation on men that they be all things, all the time: strong, brave, ambitious, successful & confident 24 hrs a day. If it were because they were feared and hated for no reason, black men would have a much higher suicide rate than white men—but they don’t.

SW-User

@bijouxbroussard tbh I think this quote itself reflects exactly what I'm complaining about... Why should women think of me as someone who might kill her? Is this really a realistic and fair way of thinking even in the 21st century?

Also the "men afraid of women laughing at them" I think this is obviously worded in a way that's so cynical towards men.. it would be more accurate to say "men are afraid of getting rejected by the woman they genuinely love the moment she figures out that they're not as invincible as expected"

bijouxbroussard · F

@SW-User But when you look at things realistically, a woman has much more to fear from a strange man (and sometimes even from men she thinks she knows) than the other way around. It’s very unfortunate, but that’s the way it is. Rather than taking it personally, many men who are not predatory have become allies to women in doing what they can to stop the men who are.