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In reply to the discussion: Why are men so angry? [View all]NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)We didn't evolve working a 9 to 5, surrounded by a manufactured skyline blinding us to nature's beauty. We didn't evolve swallowing poisons, dousing ourselves 16 hours a day in artificial lighting, bathing in xenoestrogens, eating grains end on end, stripped of all control of our destiny. We didn't even evolve while making it much past 35 years old probably. We're an animal and civilization is our zookeeper. Its enough to drive a man insane.
You make references to gender issues, as if the common man rules his life because his breasts aren't constantly critiqued. No, this isn't the case. While women are subjected to gross inequality, most men are also controlled and exploited by the system to benefit the elite. We are helpless. Emasculated. Powerless. Feeble. Our brains do not know what to make of it. Our plight is unique in its own right, but surely not absent since we get paid better. Frankly, we all have it a little rough during this rough patch we call "progress".
Maybe I'm projecting
On edit: I don't necessary endorse the "angry" part of the question, but rather that something is "off". There is frustration in many men. Even sadness. Cognitive dissonance. Confusion. And yes, sometimes all of this seeps to the surface as anger, or is expressed with an aggressive male tone.