It's alright. Sometimes. I have a personal mission to try many versions of various things, and Mac & cheese is one of those dishes where everybody has their own special way of doing it. Even if it's just a box of Kraft, nearly everyone has their own way of preparing it.
Nearly every homemade Mac n cheese I've had is edible but not enjoyable.
As a man, I'll confirm that we have issues, but, most of them are self imposed.
I could do without toxic masculinity, and the social rules that say we cannot empathize, cannot have emotion, we must eat raw meat and punch each other so we can pick up heavy things and smash even heavier things.
But, I don't know who you are crying victim to. Men set these rules for other men, and I can't really wrap my head around the concept of men asking men to stop taking away the rights of men.
I agree we are all getting fucked by the system. The results of that in my life are different than how it affects your life. The system screws men in a different way than it screws women. It screws black people different than white people. It screws this religion different than that religion.
It just sounds selfish to me when you acknowledge that the problem is bigger than "Men's issues". And although it's not quite as bad, it reminds me of All Lives Matter.
Cancer has MANY symptoms. When someone is complaining about how they lost both their legs to cancer, and you're like "But MY cancer occasionally makes me feel dizzy", yeah, it sucks that you have cancer, and I wish you didn't, but trying to equate your dizziness with amputation just makes you sound ignorant and desperate for attention.
By all means, let's cure the cancer for everyone, but until we can do that, we should triage, and treat the most severe symptoms before we start worrying about the occasional dizziness.
Without going through your experiences, I can't fully understand how you have personally been punished for being a man.
My personal experiences have shown me that no matter how bad I've had it, every situation in my life would have been worse if I were a woman, gay, or had a darker complexion.
Child abuse is a serious issue and you are right to be upset about how the people, who were supposed to stand up for you, completely betrayed you. I understand that to you, this is the most important injustice that has ever occurred. (For lack of a better phrasing) You've earned that perspective, and I will not tell you it's wrong.
The solution is advocating for victims of abuse, not reminding people that sometimes bad things happen to men.
I don't think anyone is claiming that anything is simple.
These are global issues, and I think that by putting the focus on how they affect men, it really feels like YOU are simplifying it and discounting what non-men have gone through.
That may not be your intent, but that's how it sounds and why you are getting push back.
Everybody knows that everybody has problems.
I understand what you are saying and why. I'm not saying you are wrong. I'm explaining why you aren't getting support from others.
Thank you for sharing. I'm trying to be very careful in how I word all of this, because I've never been through what the two of you have, and I know I can never truly understand, but I am sympathetic to the severity of it.
This might sound scary, but try holding ice cold water in your mouth. I had an infected tooth and that made it feel SOOOO much better until I could get it fixed.
May or may not help your situation, but if it hurts as bad as mine did, you're probably willing to try anything.
Everybody else is shooting you down here, But I'll meet you in the middle with an even harder to swallow pill.
There are Republicans who AREN'T BAD people, they are just ignorant. Not stupid, necessarily, but ignorant and uneducated. They might think they're doing good but they are very very wrong.
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