GeniesLoki

...The mere existence of people with positive views towards males doesn't help those in need. If 95% of feminists are quietly, passively pro-male and 5% are rampant abusers, the favorable ratio doesn't indicate a movement healthy for men.

3. I'm certainly curious and open to hearing more about a proposed parallel movement, it's not something I've really thought of.

It's something I've thought of but honestly founding a movement sounds exhausting so I mostly just try to move the needle with Twitter threads and other writing and kinda hope that having enough good memes out there will help.

I don't mean to demean your attitude or efforts - I am genuinely grateful. But this is an example of why I am pessimistic and why I think that pessimism is important. The range of reaction is largely between "I drink male tears" and "I'm pro-male, but not doing much about it."

Boys and men don't have the biggest ID group problem set in the world, but I think it's important, at a practical level, for us to know how alone we are in dealing with those problems.

I don't think men are alone in dealing with those problems though - I think they often get a lot of one on one help. It's true that there's not as much broad political support for them but, well, that's why I talk about this stuff.

Also note multiple positive reactions to this thread from women. It's not the sweeping political change one might want, but you mostly don't get that from a single Twitter thread...

I am appreciative of any support - a hungry man begs from crumbs - but no, I don't take a few Twitter likes and retweets as evidence that I should reconsider my pessimism.