An interesting article demonstrates Mainstream Progressive thinking:How, if You’re a Man, to Deal With the Fact That You’re Probably Trash.
Men should never complain when verbally abused:We are all complicit. We are all agents of patriarchy, and we’ve all benefited from it. We are all active contributors to rape culture. All of us. No one is exempt. We all have investments in and take deposits out of the same bank. And we all need to accept and reconcile ourselves with the fact that, generally speaking, we are trash.
What is particularly horrible is that such views are within Overton Window of Mainstream Progressive Ideology. Many Progressives agree with the ideas in the article mentioned above, and the majority of Progressives would accept them. Mainstream Conservatives reject all forms of bigotry and do not like being smeared by extremists. Even though Conservatives have many faults, acceptance of hate makes Progressives the Greater Evil.It’s not having your feelings $#@!ing hurt and pouting when called trash.
It’s recognizing that there’s no distinction between “men are dogs” and “men are trash.”
The worst form of Toxic Masculinity is men who act as mouthpieces and enablers for misandrists. Hopefully this article would set a few more thousand men on the path to seeing undeserved hate and discrimination experienced by men in our society.