Submitted 10 months ago by kingpepe8006@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
While I agree that Men’s mental health is important, I have to ask - why the fuck is this posted here? Like what even is this community anymore? I thought it was supposed to be for memes, but instead all I see is political bullshit, actual troll posts, and this off-topic stuff…rip this community.
And why is the blue heart an AfD symbol while there are “multiple” Germans running around upvoting each other, ignoring that fact, and calling feminists the real sexists?
I’m for taking care of humans in general, let’s stop dividing everything into groups.
Goes well with the men who think they’re women. And vice versa.
To my fellow men: ignore the gaslighters in here. NAMI endorses this month, and they are a highly regarded non-profit for mental health advocacy and support. I don’t think OP posted it here ironically b/c they actually posted the NAMI link outlining their support of men’s mental health.
Hope you all the best and take care of yourselves. Also, if you feel alone, NAMI has a search engine to help find support groups, meetup has a lot (just gotta expand your city search for remote meetups), always explore your insurance’s therapy coverage if you have insurance, and if all that fails, chatgpt provides some decent feedback and perspective without marginalizing your experiences like an asshole.
A cat guy made this
Why shitpost? This belongs in a serious community where people wanna hear about serious topics…
This community is a fucking joke.
This does more for my mental health than 99% of the people who claimed to be friends.
Wait, that’s a thing? Pfft what mental health?
It’s the thing stoping you realizing there is more of you than of them and tgat if you all realized this, you could just seize it and be free of their leverage.
Maybe we should just do the opposite and encourage suicide? I won’t ever be able to shake the idea that if my entire gender in the US blew their brains on on nov 4th the entire world would be a better place.
Irs not like this is even a real thing anyway. They only time I have heard it mentioned is in a shit post on a reddit knock off
I think you need to get some therapy tbh
So it’s slightly less obscure
Is this an old image or do people actually want to do a men’s health month in the same month as Pride?
I guess it’s hinting that we are supposed to be gay or something.
There is no men’s (mental) health month. It’s an attempt to set it up to compete with pride for June. It carves a perfect seperation, there is no argument that men’s health isn’t important, but riling up all cis males against all none cis males is perfect culture war.
Gay men are men too?
This link specifically mentions that NAMI considers mental health part of men’s health month. And if you think an organization that is chaired primarily by women and is a massive LGTBQ advocacy group (as they still have their DEI initiatives in place) supports this b/c they’re trying to sow division, you have an agenda not a credible argument.
There are only 12 months.
There always will be a lot of overlap with all kinds of stuff people are trying to get into the spotlight of public attention.
Pride, men’s health, whatever. It’s all degraded into yet more fucking marketing with its monthly advertising channel called “calendar months” for publicity over which agendas compete.
Your very statement is making this exact notion more than obvious.
Oh it’s like an all lives matter thing.
Why are humans are so shit?
This is under shitpost for a reason.
It’s an attempt to set it up to compete with pride for June.
That sounds very paranoid.
there is no argument that men’s health isn’t important
Read the comments in this very thread.
Mens translates to «period» in Norwegian.
Which is pretty fun
See, THIS is a shitpost.
Setting the bar
I thought men’s health month was in Movember?
No-nutting is bad for mental health. It was a bad choice for a month.
The anti-masturbation activists are another cancerous growth to be excised.
These quacks have been at it for centuries, creating and exploiting guilt around sex and then becoming polygamous cult leaders living of the backs of their pious sexually frustrated victims.
You mean only nut November?
I, also, heard of no shave November for people wanting to grow beards or moustaches.
I used to check all boxes. I feel I don’t check any box now (even if I should probably do therapy for minor stuff here and there).
I also try to give back and talk with my friends or even strangers. Still it’s astonishing how many people live in denial and refuse any change in their behaviour.
I’m happy you’re in a better place mentally!
Toxic masculinity is a bitch.
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Dang, I should probably get more of #4
Yeah, it’s one of those thighs that we all need to get more of, it never hurts.
Thank you. This is much appreciated
what about men who struggle with finances? i am shit with money. this qualifies as a shit post?
What do I get when i get a hole punch for all six?
Next trauma’s free!
I’m scared to post this because people will interpret it as me being misogynistic. And that fact, IMO, is the biggest problem that men face. We’re not allowed by society to be victims.
Stay strong, brother. You are not alone
That’s why I’m a feminist. They understand everyone suffers under the patriarchy. Especially men who are forbidden to show emotion.
I don’t like being associated with feminism for a single reason - not everyone agrees that both women and men suffer, and the blame is often shifted on men. Besides, it is originally about women fighting for their rights, not men, and at any point in time women can note that it’s for the women and about women, effectively shaking off the very men who promoted it.
We can do better by building a wider antisexist community. At the end of the day, all we want, as long as we act in good faith, is for everyone to be equal in their rights and opportunities. Women face sexism. Men face sexism. Some of it stems from patriarchy, some of it might come from other angles. We should come together not under the banner of feminism, not under the banner of masculism, but from the neutral ground if we ever hope to achieve a society that treats men and women as equals.
I’ve very rarely see that from feminist circles. And even then it feels like we can only have the emotions they want us to have and not the ones we do have.
Under some older meaning of feminist sure, but 90% of the people who claim to be feminist these days think of it solely as giving women more privilege, and any discussion of men’s issues is considered anti-feminist. Whatever meaning of equality that there used to be is all but lost.
I agree. It’s kind of a tightrope these days. As a white, cis, hereto, middle-aged, male, I pretty much clock as the poster-child for privilege. I am palpably aware that crying loudly for any support might just come off as tasteless, or even insensitive in the wrong group.
Yet, a lot of our social ills these days look an awful lot like mental illness, which is poorly compensated for through evil, perpetrated by people that resemble this description. Zero social support means you just listen to Joe Rogan instead, while projecting trauma as hate.
This poster/meme might work better if it aimed for equality and that it doesn’t exclude anyone. Or maybe if it had a quote from research or some person of note about the silent epidemic that is men’s mental/social health issues.
So can the meto movement include male victims now?
This poster/meme might work better if it aimed for equality and that it doesn’t exclude anyone.
Who does it exclude?
LETS GOOOO 💙
This YouTuber has created 4 astoundingly insightful videos about men. Patriarchal society fucks us up, either turning us into monsters or demanding a facade that runs so deep most of us forget it’s a facade. Even just articulating our feelings and mental health is a massive struggle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pm5gX_wgic
Worth a watch by men and anyone who cares about men. And if you don’t care about men… well, that’s pretty typical of society at large, so don’t feel too guilty, but maybe you should start caring.
In the same vein, I’d like to remind people that feminism is also for men.
As a start, I think bell hooks’ The Will to Change can be a good intro.
No it ain’t, feminism is for women only
Bell Hooks gets quoted in the video FWIW
Thank you for this. I have been struggling the last few days more than ever before. Someday I’ll get through it. But that day isn’t today.
The thing is… Blue hearts mean something different now in Germany
It could be an innocent mistake, or if we put our tinfoil hats on for a second, deliberate counter-propaganda aimed at sowing division and dissent by baiting people with otherwise good intent.
OP’s name is Pepe and there are multiple .de sockpuppets upvoting each other in the comments
Don’t respect those low lifes and use the blue heart for this. Or combine them.
“Men’s health, especially mental health is important. Also AFD should be banned as it is in conflict with the German constitution and a bunch of fascists”
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There is an extreme right wing party (recently confirmed as extreme right wing by the Verfassungsschutz (Organisation which looks after the constitution and organizations that want to topple the constitution)) with about 20 percent of the votes in the last election. They use the color blue as their color. The fanatics (read fashits) of that party use a blue heart.
Remind people to seek help, when someone is “joking” about ending it all. There is help out there, and it’s worth an attempt, before doing something final and irreversible.
In many countries simply telling your doctor what you are considering will get you help.
If talking to a doctor might be a bad idea due to your profession or other reasons. Then talking with friends or family also might help.
#PRIDEMONTH happy pride, happy fight
Is this a gay pride joke in disguise? Because men know it’s very homoerotic to seek therapy
It is also men’s health month. It is a Google search away and indicated on the meme.
How? I have had therapy and the sole thing that made me a bit ashamed was that I needed to from the therapist to the youth Psychiatry ward. At 21 years old. But they treated me, helped me and it gave me a lot of guiderails, tips etc.
Never wanted to get all comfy with a lad because of it. But for those in need, I have semi-decent hugs.
Bill burr does a whole bit on this. God forbid any man ever show any shred of empathy or vulnerability lest they get called a fag by all their buddies for the rest of time. That’s literally the joke.
Trying… fucking trying…
dbtng@eviltoast.org 10 months ago
Yuck. This is a shitty post.
Take this crap back to your support group.