Patriarchy harms boys and men, too. Helping them realize this is key to erasing toxic masculinity - eviltoast
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    5 months ago

    Society doesn’t value people. This applies close to equally for all cis people at least. If you look at the statistics of who makes money (which is normally attributed to value), it values men a little more. (Modern capitalist) society stomps over all individuals though. The individual does not matter except for the wealth that can be extracted from them.

    I always thought the solution was to value men inherently too. But that means saying a “you go bro” to incels and other “low value” men.

    This makes me think you’re not talking about society valuing women, and instead the value women put on their friends (in movies and other media, which isn’t always how it works). If your friends put you down instead of lifting you up, that’s an issue with your friends, not society. I know my (male) friends (mostly male) generally lift me up. This is an issue you can solve. Either dump your bad friends or encourage the behavior you want to see out of them be doing it yourself.