close
  • 3 Posts
  • 1.12K Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 27th, 2023

help-circle

  • Look, not everyone has the desire and capability to fight. I will say that I’ve had good success these last few years being vulnerable with other “woke” men and it’s been very freeing to share things I thought I experienced alone but to see that other men have gone through similar things.

    I haven’t had a lot of success being vulnerable with women, but I’m getting to the point where that is a boundary for me. I’m not going to pursue friendships with people who can’t accept me for who I am and who reinforce toxic gender roles.

    I’ve personally witnessed a lot of progress on this end and I’m excited to seeing more and being part of it when I can.

    I’m glad you have a therapist, everyone needs someone they can share with.

    Sorry you haven’t met someone who isn’t an asshole on this front.





  • Sure, it’s a contributor, everything is a contributor. But the main thing is that young men aren’t dying like they used to in the past. That’s the primary mechanism skewing gender fertility ratios. Sex selective abortions are relevant in some countries to some extent, but globally are almost nothing. It’s a red herring.

    When you have 5 extra boys born for every 100 girls the default position is there are more reproductive aged men than women. The fact we haven’t had that has been because young boys and men disproportionately died compared to young girls and women globally. Modern medicine, laws, and general peace in most of the world has stopped that trend.


  • That’s so fucking made up. Every part of that sentence is made up.

    Here is actual information: "This is what the World Health Organization (WHO) considers the “expected sex ratio at birth”, which means that, in the absence of gender discrimination or interference, it’s expected that there would be around 105 boys born per 100 girls — although this can range from around 103 to 107 boys per 100 girls.”

    https://ourworldindata.org/gender-ratio

    The world ratio at birth is 105.2 which almost exactly the expected “no gender discrimination range”

    Sure some countries have SOME effect caused by gender discrimination, but gender discrimination before birth is in no way a globally significant contributor to excess males at birth.





  • ImageHacksaw@lemmy.catoImageADHD@lemmy.worldConfession time...
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    5 days ago

    I felt the same fear of becoming someone else. When I first took my meds the person I found was the version of me that I missed. The version that’s happy because they accomplished something today. The version that isn’t feeling like a lazy loser because they weren’t able to do tasks that should have been easy.

    You won’t lose yourself.