How is this relevant?
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Agreed -- I don't think discussing male pain provides much insight into female pain (at least not as expressed in the essay), and vice versa. This feeling of difference-in-kind is perhaps why these topics are hard to discuss at all.
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I think there's an important intersection point which is that cultural pressure on men to "no sell" their pain leads to a lot of the toxic masculinity pathologies that end up causing a lot of female pain.
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Based on the description in the essay, I think it's a massive over-attribution to say toxic masculinity is the cause of a lot of female pain. I suggest reading it.
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I'm about half-way through it presently, will finish it today. Maybe I should have said toxic masculinity results in a lot female suffering, which is a different claim.
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I agree that women do suffer as a result of toxic masculinity, but I feel like toxic masculinity itself is a symptom of deeper cultural problems with "maleness". I'm partial to Erich Fromm's analysis from his book "The Art of Loving," which I'd share if I had my copy on-hand.
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I guess that was the reason I originally posted anything at all. The deeper cultural problems of maleness are particularly visible when examining the topic of pain, both the internal experience of it as well as the social expression of it.
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Sure, thinking about others' pain also makes one think about their own pain, and I have a lot of thoughts about male suffering too. It just didn't feel like the place to discuss it (and it's a trope for MRA-types to post "but what about men" in response to this kind of thing).
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I'm not one of them
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