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mirbrewer

@dajb thank you for amplifying this message

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Alex Enkerli

@dajb Some people are really, really tired.

Thanks a lot for the clue!

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🇨🇦 Michael Porter 🇨🇦

@dajb @sboots The description of how *she* has to manage the emotional state of some men because they’re not capable of it is especially on point.

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Heliograph

@dajb yes really really great thought sharing!! on #patriarchy #masculinity and #mentalhealth

"To love myself in patriarchy, I've often had to put a lot of distance between myself and men. There is nothing wrong with men. Men are lovable people with the same capacity for empathy, agency, and growth as any other human on the gender spectrum. But when men are socialized to identify their humanness as masculinity and to associate masculinity with power, we get some real problems. These are the problems of patriarchy. Patriarchy is often defined as a social system that is male-identified, male-dominated, and male-centered. It depends on a heteronormative gender binary that serves to divide..."
"Symptoms of patriarchy include gender-based violence, sexual harassment, toxic relationality, oppressive divisions of labor, gender-based pay gaps, and a nearly infinite list of large and small ways that power is continuously diverted to men, and men are socialized to identify with power and control over care and relationality. These symptoms have the most impact on women of color, Indigenous women, poor women, and people who inhabit multiple intersections of oppressed demographics. Symptoms of patriarchy also include social patterns that are harmful to men, including male violence against other men, a higher risk of suicide, reduced quality of relationships, and a lower life expectancy. In a blog post for Next Gen Men, writer Veronika Ilich describes patriarchy as “one of the single largest threats to men’s mental and physical health.” Patriarchy has everything to do with men, but at the same time, nothing at all. In a male- centered society where maleness is associated with power, what’s really being centered is power itself..."
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