WheeGeetheCat, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

‘no sympathy from me this time, get it from other men’ does not equal ‘writing off an entire gender’.

I get that you guys think you should have instant sympathy from me for some reason because some of you are feeling slightly suicidal. Let me illustrate for you in living color why this woman is having trouble having sympathy:

• when I was a teen, I attempted suicide twice
• because I was dealing with a pedophile father
• after moving out and getting on my feet, I was sexually assaulted by the CEO of the startup I worked, had to leave and start over again

This illustrates a scientific truth that we have less sympathy for people facing things that we’ve overcome ourselves, especially if we feel we’ve overcome a ‘harder’ version. Imagine how hard I laugh (or how much I want to smash something) when a guy says “women have it too easy now”.

young men don’t need to be told that ‘women are writing them off’ because we aren’t rushing to comfort them (at cost to ourselves). They need to fucking learn to adapt without women’s help, and they need to understand that women not having time to help them or be sympathetic to them anymore is a side-effect of women being fucked by the system too, not because of women ‘having too much freedom’. If they cannot admit that women don’t have some kind of ‘extra help’ and cannot stop trying to tear us down to build themselves up, they are not going to be helped by us - obviously. That’s self-preservation.