Lorelei Weldon
2 min readJun 12, 2023

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I don't really care that you don't want to hear about all the ways that masculine culture harms and abuses women. Where do you think the places where women do hate men comes from? Because they are just evil??? Or is it perhaps pervasive experience of violence, discrimination, and abuse? But you don't actually care about that. You say, no hate is acceptable, and yet the only kind you actually care about is if you perceive it be unjustly directed towards men. But it's not unjust - men uphold these norms of masculinity that allow all of this to take place. If they aren't doing the things, they are turning a blind eye to them, or otherwise enabling them to continue taking place. If you aren't a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem. These are ALL men's issues - every single one of them. Women aren't raping themselves; women aren't beating themselves, women aren't harassing themselves on the streets. Yes, sometimes women do some of these things, but they are overwhelmingly a male problem. So how about you start taking care of some of these men's issues and then you won't have to hear about them from women?

We did have a pretty good discussion on the WWII thing but I'm just sick and tired of guys like you and Tony who have zero empathy for women, blame everything on them, take no responsibility for the ways that patriarchy is to blame for all of this (and the ways you perpetuate it) and then are mad that women don't just accept all that quietly and graciously. It's frankly pathetic, and I'm over it.

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Lorelei Weldon
Lorelei Weldon

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Student of human nature and advocate for a safer, saner, more love-infused world. If I read it, there’s a good chance I’ll leave a comment.

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