Galloism wrote:Cannot think of a name wrote:I have never seen gender as the deciding factor in how much people give a shit about my woes, rather how well I know the person. Like, if my friend I know well and hang out with etc tells me they're going through some rough shit, I'm all ears.
If the dude next to me on the bus starts telling me all about how their life sucks, I might become really interesting in my phone.
Fair, but there’s a trend here.
Not that men don’t enforce, they do, but primary enforcers are women, which makes sense as they also have the majority of social power. So telling men to stop enforcing the male gender role is good, but misses the majority of the problem.
Men, by and large, would love to shed the male gender role. Hell, some even engaging in bromances just to avoid enforcement of it. Like literally that was the reasoning given.
We need to tell women to stop forcing it on them.
Speaking from a woman’s perspective and from only my personal experience, women can be highly critical and brutally so of other women. To the point of interring scathing remarks at the slightest provocation. Or at least that has been my personal experience.
There’s a reason I don’t have close cisgender female friends (I do have close trans women friends) and why I prefer to hang out with guys, heterosexual or gay.