Hilarious lack of self awareness

I don’t know who Katie Patton is but she sucks. She even pays to use twitter

Oh boy, this genuinely reminds me of the time my boyfriend told a story about this asshole who he was friends with once telling him “Men don’t have the right to feel discriminated because they aren’t” literally hours after he told her a story about how he got sexually harassed by a girl and when he complained to an adult, they dismissed it saying “Men can’t be sexually harassed” like, genuine bitch, how can you say that to someone who was adamant about his experience being sexually assaulted and discriminated?

[Reminds me of this short of Brené Brown. She nails it](https://youtube.com/shorts/ZEODvlg_iGE?si=QiJ_09jbVC2VbemX)

At your lowest, you can only add fuel to the fire. My friend was mourning his dad when his wife decided she’d had enough, filed for divorce, and went after his house and his dog.

Talking to the men in this thread, but anyone can do it: If you’re ever feeling down or need an invisible 3rd party to vent to, please message me on here.

We aren’t given many places to express our emotions in a healthy way. There’s always judgement from the people around us if we aren’t some stoic masculine pack mule, but life doesn’t have to be that way.

Sometimes it’s easier venting to someone you’ll never see again. I learned that when i was living in my truck looking for work.

There’s nothing wrong with talking to friends either.

Whether it’s me or a friend or someone else, please find someone to talk to. The world is better with you in it.

You are loved

Toxic Masculinity isn’t just something that men teach other men. Its something that SOCIETY enforces. When my brother was in elementary school, after we had moved so we didn’t have friends or even family nearby, he cried, sometimes every other day because he was being picked on.

He was sent to the school counselor, who told him something along the lines of “boys shouldn’t cry. You need to bottle that up” and my brother did bottle it up, for years, leading to a slew of personality problems that only therapy could address.

My parents said if they had known what she had told him, they’d have asked for that woman’s dismissal. Its f’ing stupid to think men aren’t allowed to express themselves, emotionally, unless its anger or someone dies, and even then, get shit for daring to act like a human being a shed a tear or two.

What does that even mean? “I doubt that was it”? It’s a personal question about why someone would feel the need to go through things alone. What kind of bullshit answer is that? “I doubt that was it”. But if that one is paying for twitter then it’s a given they’re a dumbass to begin. And yeah that person’s first gf sounds like another dumbass.

This is a fairly common experience, to say the least.

Some people are shitty. Doesn’t matter the gender. Be glad you found out who they really were and surround yourself with supportive people.

If you’re afraid of showing emotions to your partner/close friends, you really need to reassess those relationships.

While there is no context to determine if that’s the case here, it is not uncommon for men complaining they can’t show emotions to have themselves promoted an environment like this. If you build your masculinity upon being tough and make fun of those who don’t meet your standards, you can’t really be surprised by a bad reaction when you hit a rough patch.

Again, not saying that’s the case here, but I assume the woman in the tweet was thinking something similar. There certainly were more tactful ways to inquire more context than what she wrote, however.

Perfect example of why some people choose to stay silent.

I guess one could say lack of awareness is hilarious would be an insult to oneself

This pendulum swings both ways. I know many men who will downplay women’s feelings (just happened to my wife from someone in her group of friends). Surround yourself with better people and callout the people who bring you down.

Just talk about this openly and you’ll have women accost you during your conversation to downplay it. This stuff is comically common. Women don’t allow others to have bad times, even when they’re the most protected citizen class on the planet.

Man… terminal cancer at 21… fuck dude…

Toxic people of all stripes and genders believe this rot, that “soft emotions” are a sign of weakness or character fault in a man.

They are not.

Both men and women need to remember this and pass it on to younger generations if we want to fix it.

I’m down to help, men deserve so much better than crap like this, but don’t blame women for the world you created.

Men created the philosophy of stoicism not women. They took the wrong lessons from it and built societal expectations into our cultures with that and other philosophies in mind.

Y’all have literally been coding this misandry into society for centuries. Women like above, their beliefs are a symptom of this mess not the cause.

Let’s work together to fix this for men, instead of just coping with “women bad”

I’m seeing a lot of stories of women being assholes to men all over social media lately, including Reddit. Is this a “thing”? Are the Russian trolls and capitalist oligarchs going after our relationships with one another now? That would be a perfect divide and conquer strategy. I’m not saying women can’t be assholes, but this all seems really amplified lately.

My ex-bestfriend of 9-years got dumped by his girlfriend when he told her that his mother just had told him she had terminal cancer and would die in the next couple of months (she died 2 weeks later). After having convinced him to not only break of ties with me because I told him that he shouldn’t trust her and dump her when I found out that she was using her job as a socialworker to spread gossip and rumors about people when she was bored. But they tried to report me to psychiatric emergency unit. Short story: Everything resolved nicely when the ambulance found me surprised, hosting a dinner for some other friends.

This happened back in 2021. Last I heard from a worried common aquaintance was that he has grown fat, a mortal alchohol problem now, and he drives a tram in a city.
Moral of the story don’t trust women over friends. Not even the ones that touches your penis for a while.

I feel awful for that guy, crying when a friend dies is normal, wtf is/was wrong with people who mock that?

What a bitch

I had an interaction just like this on Reddit. It had something to do with make loneliness epidemic and I told a story of how I was friends with my brother. A bunch of girls started having a circle jerk over how men were all messed up or something over it when all I did was talk about how my brother and I liked to hang out 🤷‍♂️

In my experience, being vulnerable with a girlfriend often leads to them losing their attraction, or making things about them.

My best friend had it worse when his then gf got annoyed when she caught him crying – less than a week after suddenly losing his dad.

Another close friend of mine was swallowing up anxiety episodes after his dad died too, was very unhappy at his job but couldn’t quit because he was maintaining his gf, who didn’t want to look for a job. She got annoyed that he was having issues. Still never looked for a job and suddenly left owning him tons of money.

Another friend of mine lost his gf when he admitted to going to therapy.

Another friend of mine lost his gf when she started making more than him, after he was the one helping her with her learning and job applications (they worked on similar fields). She lost interest in him and didn’t want to reciprocate the favour.

By no means that is all women. There’s tons of amazing women out there just like there’s tons of amazing men. But there’s many examples of men being treated as the doormat in relationships. And, for all the bs sexist stuff that happens in society, in my experience it’s often women upholding “traditional roles” (whatever the hell that means) when it comes to men.

I once shared my deepest and insecure emotions to my gf. When I said out loud the things I dare not to think of or even have had hard times telling my therapist, the weight fell off, I just couldnt hold back the tears.
I was sobbing like a five year old and she just gently stroked my shoulder then we hugged and I knew, she is the one.
No judgement whatsoever. I imagine she was waiting for it to finally come out after me saying “everythings fine” for the millionth time.

I went to high school with Katie, this is so random