Not just "used to". Men still are showing a callous disregard for women. Many actually revel in it. It's disgusting and sociopathic. Again, some of these podcast bros and Influencers are something else.

And yeah, I get why men are struggling. I also realize that no amount of compassion and empathy from women is going to fix it for men. To use the same comparison, when a woman has become convinced she is ugly and hideous, no amount of men telling her she is beautiful (compassion and empathy) is going to convince her to stop starving or cutting herself or getting surgery adter surgery to correct her perceived hideousness. She has to want to heal and she'll have to claw herself back from that headspace. She will fight against it, likely, for the rest of her life. It's like an addiction, you can always backslide.

It's the same for men who have ceded their mental fortitude to the ideology that they aren't good enough or deserving as they are. That they have to earn a place at humanity's table. It's like an addiction they will fight against backalide the rest of their lives and no amount of compassion from women will ever be enough to fix their headspace. They have to want to heal.

Clearly, they don't. Nobody can make them. They're going to have to be allowed to hit bottom, knowing many won't make it, and then given space to heal.

Better strategy is to bolster the resilience of boys while they are children so they won't be so impressionable. But let's face it, that will require some radical changes to how boys are raised and most parents are not consciousness and self aware enough of how they play into the dynamic at the point they become parents. They're just starting the more devastating effects themselves and most parental resources are from conservative sources that want to keep the status quo.