Bryan Martin
1 min readMay 4, 2022

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I appreciate what you're saying article. Toxic masculinity does indeed harm men. Incarceration, suicide, homelessness and loneliness is often the result of men not getting help. It is also the result of a society that refuses to tolerate weakness in men. Patriarchy is a pretty fluid concept. If you want to attribute this to the Patriarchy, I can see the justification for that. Feminism is a movement that seeks gender equality through the advocacy of women's rights. While you and many other many feminists may genuinely care for men's issues (thank you for that, btw), Feminism does not. It doesn't need to for me to support it either. It doesn't mean Feminism isn't for everyone. It is. It just isn't about men.

For example, men, statistically speaking, recieve harsher sentences than women for the same crimes. Have I seen any feminist outcry over this? Why is that? Because it is not the responsibility of Feminism. You might care. Feminism does not.

In a Venn diagram kind of way, there will be instances where the tenants of Feminism and advocacy for men's issues (not the manosphere variety) will be at odds with each other. This is natural, and should spur healthy debate. Men need their own credible movement to advocate for them.

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