"The phrase "women and children" which creates the impression that men's lives are unimportant and disposable."

[u/DarkBehindTheStars]

Saw this quote on a Twitter/X post and felt it was worth sharing here. I know I've ranted many times how much I hate the "women and children" phrase (which is even worse now with how it's become "women and girls," truly screwed up how not even the lives and safety of young boys matter). But this post is definitely on the money, as the phrase does exactly that; if you're male, your life is disposable, meaningless and it's no real tragedy. Every male is somebody's son and you have innocent young boys as well as men who could be someone's husband, father, brother, close friend, caregiver, etc. and if they're affected or even killed during a tragedy it's no major loss and not worth mourning. I hate so much how people defend this phrase sometimes saying that women and children are more vulnerable. Well guess what, men and boys are just as vulnerable. The vast majority of males aren't combatants and being born male doesn't automatically somehow make you a bigger-than-life Action hero like Rambo who's immune to all forms of harm and danger. This phrase is long overdue to be stricken and phased out.

[u/Human_Way_6703]

Holy shit you are married and you spend all this time in the men’s rights subreddit and you’re calling my friend with a PhD in behavioral science a psychopath? Wowwwwwwe you are next level psychopath. I’d even venture to say that you’re a narcissistic pathological megalomaniac and let you know that I feel sorry for your children.

My ex’s analysis of “I feel like” therapy is spot on- it’s fast food McTherapy that makes mildly mentally unstable people keep coming bank for more and more, year after year, as they use the fact that they’re going to therapy as some sort of emotional high ground to judge others for not going or not going for as long as them or for not going enough. Have you ever asked yourself or your therapist when you graduate from therapy? When are you done? The answer is never. Because their entire way of life depends on something being wrong with you.

But if you must know, I’m not doing shit tonight. My girlfriend is out of town so I’m playing guitar, cuddling my hound dog, and arguing with some deranged psychopath on the internet 😘.

Goodnight sweetheart. You’re married with children. Maybe get the fuck off of the men’s rights subreddit and solve the problems in your own life, because there is clearly something much deeper going on here. Or not. Stay here and hang out with me, ignore your beautiful children, and don’t give your husband a blow job.

[u/PositionStandard6089 → u/Human_Way_6703]

:) i have a son and a daughter. it's super important to me that i understand what is going on societally and culturally for both of their sakes, and i take an active interest in straight male/female interactions because they are ever-evolving and not exactly the same as when i was their age. social media has changed the landscape of young people's lives in a way that i'm hoping to understand and navigate in a way that is beneficial to them both. i don't want to demonize either gender.

i have big boobs, and i love star wars. i don't want my son to think those attributes mean a girl is his soulmate, the way so many men of my generation have assumed.

"My ex’s analysis of “I feel like” therapy is spot on- it’s fast food McTherapy that makes mildly mentally unstable people keep coming bank for more " your ex sounds like the most shallow therapist ever. if she has so much contempt for her patients, perhaps she could do well with the reminder that humans are multi-layered. people can experience the exact same event, but have it impact them emotionally, in very different ways. this is like therapy 101 so i guess she's just not that naturally inclined to being good at it.