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2 min readSep 17, 2021

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Because that's actually not true.

For example, gangs. We target gangs and areas with gangs with heavy police presence trying to end the violence. We got to their schools with prevention programs. We build after school activities and networks to keep kids off the streets and out of gangs. There are prison programs, etc.

There are all sorts of social programs trying to end drug culture. Nobody cares how the drug dealer feels about that. And a legit pharmacist is not a drug dealer. No one would think that.

This notion that 'men' are a subgroup that is being unfairly singled out, blamed, and criminalized is false.

What exactly are you a subgroup of? The only logical and correct answer there is subgroup of humans, but you make up half the population and you hold disproportionate power so you're not a subgroup of anything. That's nonsense.

You're gaslighting.

There's a difference asking men to step up and be accountable toward ending rape culture and widespread misogyny for the good of us all is not same as blaming me for it's existence in the first place. That's ridiculous. It's been around since before you were born the same as it has been for us.

It's kind of funny though. Men always tout themselves as leaders. Here we have a situation where men have been asked to step into a leadership role to do something good, powerful, worthy of the regard that men naturally get in an androphilic culture.

Crickets. Whining about your feelings. "How unfair! It's not my fault!"

That's where the blame comes in. And you should be blamed. Because you made a choice to support rape culture knowing that it's wrong. Knowing that it harms us all. And choosing not to care because your ego and your feelings are more important to you. Damn everyone else.

Making you unfit for leadership roles and unworthy of kind regard from the rest of us who have to live and constantly struggle with the consequences of your ambivalence.

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