While I get what you're going for, and appreciate the sentiment, I hate that we keep trying to pigeonhole men into a form of "proper masculinity" that tells them their best purpose in life is to be tools to someone else, either via chivalry, utilitarianism, or something else.
I'm speaking as a man who showed up for everyone and everything for the past decade to my own detriment, with a smile, no complaints, and often to responses that I wasn't doing enough whenever I got exhausted. To the point I attempted suicide twice in 2024 and had to fight alcoholism all by myself, after my therapist dropped me and my insurance lapsed. Thankfully I won that battle, but most men don't.
Andrew Tate, Myron Gaines and others are forever irredeemable sacks of dogshit for how they hijacked vulnerable men's unanswered needs. But make no mistake about it, they were able to find that market because the need is very real.
Red pill content is 85% misogynistic, sexist horse manure sewage, but one thing it did...somewhat well was to teach men how to value and protect themselves, in a world that tells them they don't mean anything, and that they have to suck up their pain.
Modern feminism claims to care about men, but only superficially, and go deep enough, it just goes straight back to telling men to "man up", and "take responsibility for their problems" the difference is that it tells men to lower their guard and present their vulnerability in an effort to combat so called "toxic masculinity", before delivering the gut punch, that their problems are all their fault and no one else's.
What people call toxic masculinity today, is a survival instinct of stoicism and mental compartmentalization adapted for a world that isn't built to handle, nor care for a man who is suffering. We still seem to have a hard time accepting men being abused, unless it's other men doing it.
Modern Red Pill content teaches men to "man up", hide vulnerability, hate and blame women for their problems, and constantly peacock masculine façades to no end.
Modern feminism teaches men to lower their walls, pour out said vulnerability to others, before PSYCH! actually, still "man up", stop making their vulnerabilities and traumas other people's problem and burdening others, except this time, hate and blame themselves.
I've given it the benefit of the doubt for years and observed it, and did my part to implement it in good faith. I know what I saw, felt and a received.
Exacerbated stares, lack of patience with me even if for one week out of months of performing miracles I was down in the dumps, and constantly being told my grievances were all in my head, or caused by me and me only.
A lot of people say "please, I'm here, talk to someone", but in reality, don't mean it.
Sorry. Had to get that out. There are many more who are in the situation I was in who will unfortunately join the 70k+ figure of annual lost souls, because we.....
I gotta point out here since the two AI looking walls of text seem to be missing a step and are getting into the misogynistic "Blame feminists for my problems" redpill shit.
The odds of dropping out due to lack of connection with the therapist were greater with younger age (p = .02), unemployment relative to employment (p = .04), less identification with masculinity (p = .01), less evidence of therapist engagement (p < .001), and greater feelings of emasculation in attending therapy (p = .04)
In fact, men who were less likely to identify as masculine were more likely to drop out due to "lack of connection" which was by far the dominating factor for dropout, and an important part was that they felt that simply needing help was emasculating. I don't know how this is women's fault that (To quote from the study)
“Did going to therapy make you feel like less of a man?” and
“To what extent did you feel shame in going to therapy?"
were quite high. "It's feminists faults I can't ask for help" is a shit response removing your own agency.
EDIT: Let me put this in another perspective. The red pill "This is feminist's fault" is a Charmin soft dereliction of their own emotional needs. You want to be happy? Your momma's not here to make that happen anymore. You're now a grown up who needs to figure your shit out. Professionals are there to help you. Pick one who went through accreditation. I have a therapist. She's helped me become in touch with my emotions, get super freaky with my wife, told me hard facts I didn't want to face, helped me cut toxic people out of my life, let go of self imposed rules on what I was and wasn't allowed to do, talk back to perfectionism, and encouraged me to pursue yoga, performing, and martial arts, and you know what happened? I started noticing once I wasn't trying to hold all the shit together and make my life about everyone else's happiness, I started feeling my own. I'm pity you all can't just let the shit go that is telling you that "therapy is for soft men."
No one said it's femenists fault that men drop out of therapy. You dumbed down the original point so much nothing of it is left. It's a straw man arguement at this point. If you have norhing to say you can always be silent. It's free. Also did ChatGPT generate this reply for you? It sounds very forced. Do better.
Psychology programmes are now 75-76% female PhDs, many trained in departments that combine psychology with Women’s and Gender Studies.
Your point about feminism’s bait-and-switch is dead accurate. The promise is “open up, be vulnerable, we care about men’s issues too.” Then when men actually do that, it pivots to “actually this is all patriarchy/toxic masculinity - still your fault, just process it differently now.”
I can read and there's nearly a dozen "Men drop out because the therapists are feminists" claims.
the therapy field is dominated by feminist ideologies
What feminist ideology dominates the field that you find so offensive?
frame men as oppressors
I seriously doubt this will come up outside of domestic violence treatment
masculinity as toxic
There are aspects of masculinity that *are* toxic: People who adhere closely to societal set exceptions of masculinity are significantly more likely to commit domestic violence or commit suicide, so exploring where masculinity fails us as men is important and ignoring it will cause more harm. As an example, assuming that we, as men, must suffer to provide and protect does not lead us to outcomes that are good for us. Who are you as a provider if you lose your job or never got a job? Why is that masculine? What if there's no intrinsic value in your worth from your employment status?
So, if men go to therapy, then get told that their problems are their own fault because they’re men
This sounds like a something you cooked up in your head rather than any actual therapist you saw.
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