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yeah id say it’s not overt, but that’s kinda the problem… it’s almost difficult to identify, so when it comes to mental health for men a lot of the time society, therapists, etc almost gaslights us into thinking our problems aren’t problems

if it were overt it’d be easy to identify… the fact what it’s not, the fact that are the majority, and are the problem in a lot of cases pushes people to certain conclusions (including ourselves about our own problems)

mental health is complex af

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TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
incels are people. their problems are legitimate problems.

why society can’t acknowledge this is beyond me. I guess because it’s socially unpalatable.

incels or any extremist thing (terfs, religions extremists, etc) … is a product of the same issues. but people just want those people to ‘go away’ and not address the issues that would actaully make them go away… because that is hard.

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- pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  their problems are legitimate problems sure, but in a lot of cases problems with a lot of those groups can be summed up with a couple of things:
  
  it’s different to my world view and i don’t like it
  
  i think i deserve something and am not getting it
  
  those are different kinds of problems to acknowledging your own feelings, or people are using me and trampling over me… both are deserving of help, but incels, terms, extremists in general are harming others with their problems
  
  you’re free to swing your arms until they come into contact with my body
  
  these classes of people are harmful to others - i don’t think anyone thinks they aren’t deserving of help, but they are dangerous in a completely different way
  
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  - TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    so are we going to help them, or are we going to wash our hands of them and let the problem fester?
    
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    medgremlin@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The problem with that is you are then putting the burden on a member of that hated group to present themselves as a paragon and suffer all the vitriol and abuse that gets hurled at them until the hateful person hopefully snaps out of it.
    
    Having been the sole woman in many male-dominated spaces, I gotta tell ya, it is a special kind of hell to try to be that positive example.
    
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