Well it’s sort of ironic. Patriarchy can make men’s loneliness particularly intense because of how they’re socialized w/ regards to emotions (to basically invalidate them) and even men in friendships can be pretty cold with each other overall because of that socializing, using affectionate “ribbing” as a substitute for emotional openness and support. But the people who tend to be most pushing a male-centric view of suffering also tend to be reinforcing patriarchy, not challenging it. So they’re helping maintain that problem even as they claim to care about it.
And of course as others point out, the alienation is not male-exclusive by far. Most people, masc, fem, nonbinary, suffer under capitalism, colonialism, imperialism in multiple ways. Patriarchy does need to be dismantled on top of that, but it certainly won’t be dismantled by implying that men’s problems are the center of the universe.
Well it’s sort of ironic. Patriarchy can make men’s loneliness particularly intense because of how they’re socialized w/ regards to emotions (to basically invalidate them) and even men in friendships can be pretty cold with each other overall because of that socializing, using affectionate “ribbing” as a substitute for emotional openness and support. But the people who tend to be most pushing a male-centric view of suffering also tend to be reinforcing patriarchy, not challenging it. So they’re helping maintain that problem even as they claim to care about it.
And of course as others point out, the alienation is not male-exclusive by far. Most people, masc, fem, nonbinary, suffer under capitalism, colonialism, imperialism in multiple ways. Patriarchy does need to be dismantled on top of that, but it certainly won’t be dismantled by implying that men’s problems are the center of the universe.
You never hear about the female loneliness pandemic like we have to pander racist white men who contribute nothing else to society