Working-Class Men Are Not Okay
Working-Class Men Are Not Okay
Working-class American men are getting lonelier and sicker and their lives are shortening. It’s not just a sad state of affairs. It’s a full-blown crisis that demands policy solutions.
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The hard truth is nobody cares about men. Even men don't care about other men. We have a lack of compassion for men and the issues that impact them. It is difficult to convince people to empower a group they believe already empowered.
It’s not that people don’t care about men. It’s that liberals don’t want to talk about class issues.
What is a liberal
Liberalism is a political ideology that arose in Europe in the late 18th century amongst intellectuals of the newly emergent middle class. They believed in individual rights and were opposed to the authority of the church and monarchy. (People who supported the church and monarchy were called Conservatives.)
Liberals later opposed the more collectivist ideologies that emerged in the late 19th century, like socialism and Communism.
Liberal ideas are so ubiquitous in the Western world, that you might not even realize them as part of an ideology, but they are.
For a long time, English politics was a rivalry between Liberals and Conservatives, and so those terms have been imprecisely borrowed to describe the Democrats and Republicans in the US, but that usage is incorrect. The US has never had a state church or a monarchy. Both sides of US politics are liberals.
In the context you usually see on Lemmy I believe it refers to anyone who believes in some form of market based capitalist system as opposed to communism or some form of.
I wish you all the best that you can find someone to talk to about this
I wish you all the best that you can find someone to talk to about this
What a way of saying, “the systemic societal misandry you observe is all in your imagination.” Sweet gaslighting, there.
Ok, let me try again, a few questions that may better explain what I was trying to get at:
Do you feel that your emotions are actively being suppressed by some "other" or do you feel angry that you were never provided the tools to do so in the first place?
What 'place' do you feel is missing from society for you to vent your frustrations in?
if you have emotions or opinions that you feel you cannot express in public, have you tried looking for a place to express them?
How is your mental\physical health in other ways, are there peers that you can talk to or socialise with?
I'm not asking for you to reply to answers for these questions, these are deeply personal. What I am trying to get at is if you don't think you can talk about your emotions, you need to start working out a way to talk about your emotions before they fester and turn toxic.
Yes I was a little short in my comment, but I don't know you and I don't know your context. If you don't have any family or friends that you can talk about your emotions with, that's not the whole world telling you that you aren't allowed to have emotions. You need an outlet. I need an outlet. I have OCD, anxiety, and anger issues. The thing that makes these things bearable is having people to talk to about them. If you feel you can't, or do not have the means to go to therapy fine, that sucks and you need other people who do care. If no one is asking you "how are you" with any care about the response, fine, I'll do it.
No judgement. No criticism. No hate. Just a sounding board if you feel like you truly have no one to talk to about this. DM me. @[email protected] @[email protected] how are you doing?