This post is pointing out that few men want to date ‘older’ women while men of all ages want to date younger women.

It’s wild how discussing age and gender inequality in dating is considered misandry.

I too, take it as a personal affront that there are grown adults who are not American.

Girl boring guy quirky.

Average Nightreign player when the game came out.

Funny how often childbirth is brought up to describe how much more painful something else is, usually by people who have never given births themselves.

Invalidating ADHD doesn’t make trans people feel better, it only perpetuates ableist and medically misinformed views on ADHD.

Particularly women, minorities, and non-binary people, who have historically been severely underdiagnosed and neglected as is. Girls are 16 times less likely than boys to receive an ADHD diagnosis and treatment.

Women who speak out about their ADHD are often dismissed on social media as ‘self diagnosed pick me girls’ just seeking attention. In reality, many are speaking up against the ongoing crisis of medical neglect.

Untreated ADHD can put already vulnerable people into higher risk of developing clinical depression and other comorbid mental health issues. ADHD medication can be life saving, and calling it meth only serves to stigmatize the mental health issues ADHD patients go through, as well as discourage them from getting the help and medication they need.

If you call yourself an ally to trans people, that includes trans people with ADHD. There is no need to add to their intersectional struggles when they already have so much on their plate.

Never donate at the cash register. It’s a tax deduction scam.

Donate to a real non-profit instead of blood sucking corporations.

To come out of 4chan a better person, one must transcend humanity.

The point is that Republicans are allowed to have a literal insurrection with Trump supporting them, while Democrats protesting ICE’s human rights abuse triggers Trump enough to deploy the national guard on them.

OP is drawing a parallel between the two, not pretending that anyone will mistake that for LA.

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^Here, you dropped this. It’s called the point. You must have missed it while stating the obvious.

Not that simple. When you’ve been abused all your life, you cease to understand what is abuse and what’s normal. Parents can do the most fucked up things and claim that it is all because they love you.

This is why childhood abuse can make one vulnerable to abusive relationship as an adult. When you’ve been taught as a child that you are the cause for your parent’s explosive temper, you normalize this behavior in your partner.

Average day of being a woman on Lemmy and feeling excluded and alienated.

Not sure what being sexually attractive has to do with specifically being a woman as opposed to being a man.

I think that severely discounts the internal experiences of what trans people go through and the reasons why they transition.

Fuck all the adults who say this to kids with less privileged childhoods.

Yes. I’m going to cut to the point here.

You are likely conflating the phrase ‘toxic masculinity’ with ‘men’. Toxic masculinity is a systemic problem, not a gender. It’s the cultural norms we grow up with that instill poor notions of what it means to be a man. It’s the widespread shaming and dismissal of men’s mental health. It’s the normalization of anger as the only acceptable emotion for men, making it the only outlet for their grief and pain. It’s the preclusion of men from caretaking roles and the expectation of men being breadwinners, and so much more.

Men are raised by people, and people, men and women alike, in their ignorance, instill outdated ideas of masculinity in their kids uphold the expectations of their peers and elders.

The honest truth is that toxic masculinity is perpetuating an environment of hostility towards showing the need for emotional support and giving fellow men who need it.

Women receive emotional support from other women because they have been socialized to give and receive it without shame.

If you are a man, ask yourself when was the last time you were able to express emotional vulnerability with other men without feeling judged.

This isn’t an issue of ‘value in females’. It’s an issue of valuing men’s emotion vulnerability as a critical part of healthy masculinity.

Girl boring guy quirky.

Everyone loves to talk about Norwegian welfare as the pinnacle of social policy while conveniently forgetting that it’s a tiny country of 5.5 million people backed by a trillion dollars of oil money from the state.

Edit: I love how everyone glosses over the population size as if it has nothing to do with policy making and the politically stagnant environment of the US.

The same top doctors and scientists responsible for perpetuating systemic biases in modern medicine against women and POC?

The same top doctors and scientists responsible for diagnosing 16x more boys than girls with ADHD because of antiquated diagnostic criteria that were solely based on white teenage boys?

The same top doctors and scientists who treat every woman with abdominal pain as a drama queen while they suffer from ruptured appendices and endometriosis?

The same top doctors and scientists who treat chronically ill patients as drug seeking hypochondriacs instead as people who have been failed by a medical system that does not treat them as reliable witnesses to their own bodies?

There’s a certain kind of privilege to be able to hold such confidence in the medical system without having to worry about medical gaslighting and abuse, and then use it to ridicule people who have been subjected to mistreatment.

Make no mistake, I’m pro-vaccination and pro-science. But scientists and doctors are human with human biases, and it is reflected in the quality of care received by people who are the subject of implicit and explicit biases.

That’s where I draw the line too. It’s unnatural and people shouldn’t go into bathrooms with 1cm gaps in their doors.