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In reply to the discussion: The male suicides: Social perfectionism is killing men — and things are getting worse [View all]gaspee
(3,231 posts)I read the post in that way as well. And the entire thread. Men, so oppressed! Yeah, some really and truly are, but talk to the guys who run the show, not your fellow oppressed. The GLBT movement will help all of society see less strict enforcement of binary gender roles... which is probably a big reason the religious right and most traditional societies that oppress women hate it so much. They really don't want to lose their slaves. How would their society survive without the backbone of that society - their women who are slaves to them from birth. And I'm not just talking about "other place" - the Duggar episode has exposed just how widespread the christian patriarchy movement is in this country. They are trained up from birth to accept their lives of enforced servitude. And the men are trained up to be the masters... well, some don't want to be masters and those who do treat the men who don't want that life just as badly as they treat their slaves.