Men... are u okay? What is the problem?

During both World Wars women took on a lot of traditionally 'male' roles (including heavy industries and agriculture) because men were away fighting and they needed to be filled. There are even fewer jobs now which require physical strength. Society might collapse if all men (or all women) disappeared, but not because most jobs can only be done by one sex.

You're not wrong @LavenderSkiesxo but we live in a patriarchal society and lots of people can't see the misogyny/sexism,or don't want to. And some men are decent, but the vast majority are raised to believe they're superior to women, and therein lies the problem.

All women deserve to feel safe. I mean it's not all men (hate that caveat) but all women know men CAN be predatory and women are prey.

I know what men are like - some are better than hiding it than others is all. It doesn't make me love men any less but I am wide eyed in ways I wasn't when I was younger.

For the people saying it's not all men
If you had a box of chocolates all looking the same
But one of them was dog poo inside the chocolate shell
Would you risk eating any ?
Or would you say no thanks to them all.
Honestly it would massively put me of choosing any of them .
To high a risk as you don't know which is dog poo

If you take a step back, the short answer is probably that we’ve arrived at where we are now because from an evolutionary perspective (both physically and on a societal level) this path has “worked” for humans…so far.

In other words, as a species we have continued to survive and, in terms of overall number, have thrived based on the set up we see around us. By that measure, it has been effective.

That isn’t a value judgment. It isn’t to say that the current set up is “good”, or the best of all possible alternatives by any means.

What we can say though is that it has got humans this far. Life for most creatures is nasty, brutish and short, a constant battle between predators and prey. For the majority of our history it has been that way for us too. But the potential competitors to Homo Sapiens died out, and so we eventually emerged with our messy, often violent, complex societies and we developed technologies that far outstrip our fellow creatures on the planet (for good or ill).

Homo Sapiens could easily have already ended up as a footnote in the history of planet Earth ( and the way we are going, perhaps we soon will be). But looking back, it is quite possible that on a species level the “faults” of men as a sex have also been the same behaviours that helped ensure our collective survival.

The question we face now is whether, with all our knowledge and experience, and with much greater potential to consider and implement alternative ways of being, can we as a species actually implement something better than simply following the same patterns of behaviour which have got us this far.

@darksideofthetoonwomen also do those 🙄

This is a massive one-sided rant against men. Men do horrendous things with zero justification, especially the violence against women. Truly and utterly despicable. Likewise, most violent crime is committed by men. I’m sure there will be people who study this behaviour and perhaps have scientific theories.

However, men also do some unbelievable things from writing beautiful songs, poetry & literature to stepping into burning buildings to save lives.

I thought exactly the same, years ago women couldn’t vote….yeah 108 years ago!!!

I've seen women squatting down and pissing in shop doorways on a Friday or Saturday night while out in town. Sadly, with increasing frequency.

How many generations would you say it is?

Can easilly be 5, or it could be 2,5.

Women in the working classes have always worked. The myth of the homemaker only applies to a tiny number of women for a short period of history.

Honestly I think apart from sperm, men are pointless!
I know it’s not all men but it’s most men and the others don’t call them out on their bullshit.
i totally agree op

Also the majority of men are engineers

Do you mean the majority of engineers are men?

Are you ok? Weird man hatred nonsense again.

That is truly shocking.

The patriarchy is safe as long as so many women are happy to defend it

87% of the NHS is female.

Even worse, marital rape only became a crime in 1994

Isn't is obvious? Men don't get enough sex (which is of course women's fault) and the build up of cum makes it's way out of the body where it can.

In case it's not obvious I'm being sarcastic.

To be fair what is the point of anybody?

I agree that there are too many shit men out there, and a lot of men deserve to be lonely, but it is unacceptable to write off half the population.

Even if you could keep your daughter away from all men, she still wouldn't be safe. I went to an all girls school and witnessed some horrific girl on girl violence. My bully choked me and threatened to bring a knife into school. One of my friends had her face held down in the snow and the girl only let go when my friend stopped moving.

My DS has been choked by a girl at school and the only time I have yelled at another person's child was when a girl stamped on my son's head at soft play.

All the men in my family have been wonderful too, but do you ever worry for your safety if you are out late at night or if you were out somewhere a bit isolated and dark?

This post is interesting to me. I have some very good men in my life, and some who are not so good. The same for women to be fair. But since having my daughter I do see men differently. I wonder if there’s something that changes in your brain or hormonally when you have a daughter?

Yes... without needing it signing off by a husband or father.

Also I want to point out how our ideas about gender shape the world we live in. We are a culture, we impact each other. If we want to build a more equal world we cannot run away from that (and just demonise men as a concept) but we'll need to change how we approach gender.

Some studies I read before just showing how adults shape behaviour in boys and girls differently. If we want better/different men, perhaps we need to reduce how much we discriminate between girls and boys and how that impacts them.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/boys-speak-up-girls-silenced-in-the-classroom

https://scicurious.scientopia.org/2011/03/09/baby-boy-baby-girl-baby-x/