June is Mens Mental Health Awareness Month. I’m not surprised if you don’t know. Mental health is taboo too much with men. No one really wants to talk about it until someone goes nuts and shoots up a school, church, parade, concert, movie theater, etc.
And then it briefly gets mentioned for a few days and not again until to the next time there is an active shooter with mass casualties.
But I really do think we need to examine the “Manosphere” and the way our society treats men who need a little help. Despite numerous experts saying there is no such thing as an “Alpha Male,” it is still something they embrace and mock others men who don’t take charge and be 100 percent assertive as “Betas.”
Telling people to “man up” when they might feel down, weak or unsure only means that those who get too emotional are inferior. This sends the wrong messages that people need to do something extreme to show they are manly.
This is why some men sexually assault others or take it upon themselves to harass another teen at a track meet. Yes, it might have been criticized if a teacher, coach or sports official was alerted but things might be different right now.
That also being said, people would elect someone just on the basis they will save “manhood.” Real men don’t scream at women who ask them basic questions calling them “piggy.” They also don’t get upset when a woman calls them out on their false accusations.
I’m not saying some women aren’t narcissistic, egotistical, self-centered and emotional. But yet we’ve created a stereotype that anytime a woman or group of women disagree with a man or group of men, they are the ones in the wrong and it must be mental health.
Also men act like they know what constitutes masculinity but why be judgmental of other men especially since they have nothing much to do with your life. I also find it funny that they think they are alphas yet they simp for so-called billionaires Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the President who probably don’t even know how to change a car tire.
And they have such a homoerotic fixation with the President that brings into question why they think they can judge others on manhood.
I think all boils down to things I used to hear prior to 2015 when everyone started listening to this clown. Whenever some dudebro or “manly man” would go on a rant acting like they know everything, we were told “Just let them speak.” Yes, but if you’re going to spout outrageous comments, you set yourself up to defend them. Also, women don’t like men who always talk about themselves or try to explain things they know little about. Actually we have a term for that called “mansplaining.”
But I do think cognitive dissonance and especially the Dunning-Kruger Effect exists in a lot of men who peaked in high school. Yet because these behaviors can have a crucial, negative and lasting effect on people’s lives and everyday and world events, there’s no way we’re going to break through the stigmata until people admit that it’s truly a problem.
However, most won’t. They still want to act like vaccines cause autism or no one had ADHD before 1990. Just because Gen. George S. Patton slapped soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress doesn’t mean he was right. A lot of people who have been in war and combat should have jitters and afraid of things like car backfire. Saying peiple shouldn’t be unphased by combat, killing other people and seeing their friends killed is more of a cause for alarm.
Maybe if we had been given all our military personnel more mental health consideration decades ago, we wouldn’t be where we are.
Zane Says 