Why Is It OK To Belittle Men’s Mental Health Problems?
This disturbing trend has fatal consequences.
I am a man. And I am lonely.
I am a man. And I am depressed.
There! I said it.
Despite what a featured and heavily promoted article on the you-know-which writing platform says, male loneliness exists. And it is a problem. A huge problem.
Yet, this issue is usually just swept under the rug. It’s either not talked about, or if it is mentioned, it’s often in stories that question it, if not totally denigrate it.
Men’s mental health is a taboo subject. If you try to hint at its existence, you are labelled either a crybaby, a misogynist, or a loser. Often, all three.
I don’t get it.
Why is it so hard to understand that men also have problems? Why is it so hard to understand that men and women could have different problems? Why does everything have to be a zero-sum game?
Today’s society tries to pretend that men don’t have problems. The narrative is clear. Men are somehow “toxic”.
I find this quite disconcerting. Why this incredibly negative portrayal?
Why can’t we just acknowledge that women have problems. And that men have…
