This is what I see on this website, other social media sites and even television on a daily basis. This is the poorest excuse for “empowerment” that I’ve seen in some time.



“Men are weak.” I can see where you get that. Men are much more likely than women to commit suicide in basically every country in the world. Men are much more likely to hide their abuse, rape, or assault. Men are much more likely to hold in their feelings and just put up with their struggles in silence. And with all of this, we still find it appropriate to make fun of them.

Let me ask you this: If you were abused and your entire gender was just as abused as the other gender, and you didn’t receive even half of the services that they did for it, how would you feel? If there were no shelters for you, hotlines don’t support you, and police adhered to a method that assumes you the aggressor if you do seek help, if you knew you would be made fun of and ignored all at the same time for voicing your concerns, If society didn’t treat your problems even half as seriously as the problems of the other gender, If talk shows and the media frequently excuses or downplays the same horrible actions that men do, but only for women, would you want to talk about your abuse?

How about encouragement? If you were told not to voice concerns about your feelings or your appearance (“suck it up”, “man up”), if you only see encouragement for self esteem and body image for the other gender, if campaigns and celebrities only focus on the other gender exclusively, if it isn’t considered appropriate for your gender to voice their concerns, how would you feel? And to see a “men are weak” post to boot?

How about comparisons to experience? Men get told that they are weak because they cant physically have babies. Like that’s some kind of measurable variable in a debate. Many women choose not to have babies because of the potential pain. Are they just as weak as men then? Men have external genitals that are so sensitive, that blunt force could create extreme pain, vomiting, and even fainting. Even after, the pain can continue. Men make up 93% of U.S. Injury and Death in the workplace, and the number is similar in other countries. This is because men are often forced to take the dangerous physical jobs. That means that a majority of the people coming in with fingers, limbs, ect cut off are men. Men who get treated for crushed body parts from working in a had tiring job are men. This means those attacked by sharks, venomous, or overall dangerous sea creatures while fishing are more than likely going to be male. Is that not comparable to child birth? Is losing a limb or fainting from intense pain not a factor here? And let’s not forget “Im scared to walk home at night as a woman because I might get murdered.” It’s fine to be cautious, but remember that men in all first world countries make up a majority (often vast majority) of murder and homicide victims are male. Blame it on criminals finding males more important to take out first, or not wanting to harm a woman (and having no problem harming a male), but men are much more likely to be killed at night than women, so making it a womens issue is insulting.

For you to pass along the “men are weak” message in an attempt at empowerment or to make yourself feel better is pathetic. Men suffer just as much as you do. Men fear harm, are harmed, abused, limited by society and law, but unlike you, they don’t get help for it. People choose not to recognize their pain like they do yours. You complain about an expectation from society and get immediate support, but if men, who cant even complain about these things, show discomfort with something, you all make fun of them. You are not special. Your words are not empowering.

You are literally trying to tear someone down to make you and your gender seem and feel better. That doesn’t sound like something that a strong person or group would do. Making fun of people for being born a certain way and ridiculing or ignoring the same problems that you have when it happens to them does not make you powerful, it makes you a child.

P.S. If you reblog or create posts ridiculing issues that men face instead of helping them, don’t you DARE claim to support equality.