
women don’t need to degrade men; men do it to themselves (toxic masculinity; hegemonic masculinity) men still have a stockholm syndrome with patriarchy because even though they ruin their mental health and sewer slide over trying to attain unrealistic and toxic standards for masculinity… they enjoy the power they wield over women. women don’t degrade men in a meaningful way
ya its js that they won’t prove you wrong because this is a structural critique of gender since the category of ‘man’ was created and we retroactively added characteristic over time to naturalize gender norms, societies have ensured men were socialized to be disappointments iykwim. retroactive bc norms that are still developing were applied to points where they didn’t exist men who aren’t, are not disappointments *in spite* of being born a man if that makes sense.