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Seems like every post there is just "dump her dood she's using you" which I know I would get if I posted there...but it's way more complicated than that.

Any ideas?

The abuse men suffer from their SO's is usually trivialized, ignored, or even lampooned. One of the reasons for this, is because men don't usually talk about the abuse they've gone through.

Liberal/Progressive communities usually support women who out their abusers. The more apparent examples of this are the consequences popular male youtubers have faced when their victims outed them. Most of these abusive male youtubers either had their youtube career ended, or received criminal punishment.

Being that Liberal/Progressive communities are pro-equality, it should reason that male victims should receive the same amount of support if they started outing their abusers.

Hello everyone,

there are a lot of men struggeling with lonelyness. But most subreddits for these men are mysogionist and/or focussed around PUA. Does anyone know if a subreddit exist for lonely men which isnt toxic? If not should we create one?

I'm a straight 21 year old man at an age where I'm trying to discover who I am and what I want to do in life, I have a rebellious streak and I feel the most constructive way of harnessing that would be to defy gender norms. However I'm having great difficulty getting into performing arts/crafts without people wondering what kind of person I am. Gay men I think are generally accepted in society - and society allows them to break gender norms through drag, dance, poetry etc without batting an eyelid. If I started doing these things however, I think because society associate them with gay culture my friends and family would start to think I'm closeted or unwell. Potential partners and employers would question what the hell was wrong with me and id be castigated.

Or maybe not - maybe people would have a few minor doubts but continue to accept me as I am. I don't know because I think I'm more well versed in feminism/queer theory and more inclusive than most. However I think I would still internalise this idea that people are judging me and become extremely insecure, making experimentation not worth while in the first place. I feel as if I were to start dancing and doing poetry all of a sudden, I would have to tell people I'm gay just I would be at ease with myself.

I know this sounds deftly irrational but its what I'm feeling anyway. Am I a bad person for this? What the hell is going on? Does anyone else have similar experiences?

Does this perpetuate an attitude that this behavior is okay? Does it validate people who act this way since others find humor in it? Or is it "just comedy"? Any other thoughts appreciated.

EDIT: Forgot the link, I am an igmo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w

I think that it was about a year ago. My dad drove me to Buffet King and one of the foods that I selected was some type of pepper. Holy hell was it spicy, and drinking helped very little. My dad told me that it’s supposed to ‘toughen’ me or something. I was complaining about it, and he told me ‘Do we need to buy you some tampons and some panties?’ It was one of the most obnoxious jokes that he ever told me (and believe me, he tells those a lot).