"The Epidemic of Male Fragility" - Great read!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

Bret Stephens, Donald Trump and the rest: Stop acting like you're the only one in the world whose feelings matter.... The world needs a safe space to house its growing population of extremely breakable men.
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This isn’t hard, fellas. Don’t punch down, don’t overreact, admit when you’ve made a mistake, listen to other people and learn from them and stop acting like you’re the only one in the world whose feelings matter.

If someone is being threatening or repeatedly harassing you, take it seriously, of course. But a one-off insult? Or your own perception that people don’t laud you enough? Please.

Fragile men are doing serious damage to the world, whether they know it or not. (They definitely don’t know it, and if they did they wouldn’t admit it.) And they’re doing it while mocking others who, at the end of the day, just want to be treated fairly, regardless of their race, gender, faith or sexual orientation.

The whole excellent piece, here: http://www.startribune.com/let-s-discuss-the-epidemic-of-male-fragility/558860382/

[Skittles]

1. guns are a big part of that

the insecure really need their guns

[struggle4progress]

2. tao te ching

men are born soft and flexible but at death become hard and stiff

young plants are tender and moist but at death become withered and dry

the stiff and unbending follow death; the gentle and yielding follow life

an inflexible army never wins; a rigid tree easily breaks

the hard and strong fall, overcome by the soft and weak

[pangaia]

3. I like that...

[hlthe2b]

5. A lot of wisdom in that...

[mopinko]

4. only one little beef- faberge eggs arent fragile. they are rocks.

but yeah, this shit has to end.

[Igel]

9. But if they said pysanky

then the connotations would be all wrong. Bad rhetorical form, that.

[Chellee]

13. But they look delicate,

and everyone knows that they're worth a lot of money, so people treat them as if they're fragile.

It's the "you break it, you bought it" syndrome.

[lindysalsagal]

6. "They aren't the ones demanding apologies for minor criticisms. They aren't tending to their egos be

putting out fires.

It’s men doing that. Fragile men. Men whose insecurities may be the death of us all."

Oh how I loooooove this article.

[ms liberty]

7. K&R. Yes, it is a great read! n/t

[smirkymonkey]

8. Spot on!

I am so tired of special snowflake right-wing men who rail against political correctness and who are abusive to others (Trump is the poster boy) whine like little babies when any criticism or ridicule is being thrown their way.

What is even sadder is that none of them can even man up and admit it when it so clear for the rest of us to see. Or better yet, just grow up, stop treating other people like dirt and don't take everything so personally. As the author said, when someone called him an "amoeba", he felt no need to respond to that insult because it wasn't really a big deal, he's not pathetically insecure and he knows he is not an amoeba so he saw no need to give the comment any of his time or energy.

Looking at some of the comments after the article are also telling. A lot of these men just refuse to listen or understand. They are so wrapped up in their own victimhood they are incapable of seeing how they are their own worst enemies or understanding the feelings of others.

[Mc Mike]

10. Special schutzstaffel snowflakes seek safe spaces.

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. Replying to read this later.

On my phone waiting for a hurricane. Seems easiest way to find it when I have a few minutes to focus.

[gulliver]

12. There's an epidemic of misuse of the world "epidemic."