Top issues for young men today: mental health stigma, societal indifference, political discontent, & dating challenges. All very mysterious and hard to uncover (if you’ve never spoken to a single due in the last 15 years)

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As a woman I struggle to feel sympathy for men. I don’t want to but when I see these I think, well women and girls have been experiencing this tenfold and now that men aren’t as privileged as they used to be, they’re crumbling. I think these issues should be framed as human issues regardless of gender... I will try to remember to reframe it myself in my own head. But so long as we keep saying women’s issues and men’s issues, the other half is not going to care.

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Guys need to break away and form new friend groups - lots of the time they feel stuck in a toxic group which encourages misogyny and bullying, but you can’t talk about your feelings. They also tend to only talk to women who comply with this norm. Personally I have observed that as soon as they start to branch out of their little circles, they become more normal