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submitted 3 hours ago by choihanna@lemmy.zip to c/mtf

As another trans woman it has been so hard for me to connect with other trans women because of this.

I'm very critical of men and the way they behave in our society, and my cis girl friends and gay male friends almost always agree.

Now every time I bring this up to trans friends they jump to defend men, girl why are you defending men when they're literally the ones killing trans women and cis women at exponential rates and you're telling me that men don't have a problem??

I genuinely don't understand that need they have to defend men...

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[-] applebusch 2 points 1 hour ago

i dont know what specific points they defend men on, but i know for me i lived as a man for over 30 years so i have some thoughts and feelings on the pressures and toxic culture men are subject to. its true that there are a lot of shitty men in the world, but it's also true that many men have been essentially abandoned by society. they aren't rich, successful, handsome, masculine, or whatever enough so they are essentially treated as worthless. they get no emotional support or connection from anyone, and no one gives a shit about their struggles and problems. as always shitty men coopt these real issues to argue that they should be able to be even more shitty, but men face real serious problems in society that end up shuttling tons of them into the manosphere, making things worse for everyone. i would never defend anyone for being shitty, regardless of gender, but writing off all men on the basis of their gender is wrong, and only serves to reinforce the societal problems driving many of them to be shitty in the first place.

this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
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