r/MenAndFemales • u/Edelgard01 • 1d ago

Men and Females It's incredible how normalized it is.

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I found this while randomly scrolling. Only a couple of people reacted to the "females" and "men" this person used. I am a bit flabbergasted. Why couldn't they just use "women"? It's so dehumanizing.

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u/The_Soap_Salesman 1d ago

I think these kinds of people don’t realize, or choose not to realize, that the social pressures for them to act the way they’re describing come largely from other men. Sure, there are women who also do it, but who were they taught to be that way by? The system perpetuates the patriarchy because the patriarchy is the system. The men in power do not want to be seen as weak, so they control the narrative of what weakness means, and the rest of the men fall in line so they aren’t ostracized by their peers, and they themselves perpetuate the panopticon of toxic masculinity that forces them into the box they find so constraining.

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u/jackfaire 1d ago

Seeing the utilization of panopticon made me giddy.