Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readSep 25, 2024

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No, I almost never read anything from a man online that is talking about the very real challenges that men are facing that isn't blaming women, feminism, single mothers, SJWs, Neo-Marxists etc. for that. It's not just incels - it's most men that I have ever come across - with some notable exceptions. Lots of men on Medium are constantly trying to hijack women's stories to try to center their own issues, complain that women aren't prioritizing those, and largely just acting like petulant children who are infuriated that women should dare to care about themselves and not put them first. There's a whole segment of the internet dedicated almost entirely to that whine. Heaven forbid they blame late stage capitalism and patriarchy — the actual culprits.

I write more about the things men are facing than most men I've come across online.

I read a ton of things written by men about men's experience in this culture because I think it's an important part of the equation, but I also see that stuff being largely well received because it's not being done as a way to negate women's issues or to silence women the way most stuff written by men on the internet is.

That's the stuff that is not being listened to and is being judged - because it's completely out of line, entitled, and petulant. In fact, feminism is THE main vehicle for caring about men in this culture - but that doesn't get recognized because if you demonize those women, you can keep the status quo and still bitch about it. Most men don't want to change the culture for the better - they want to reclaim the privileges of patriarchy - not participate in shifting it to something that actually treats men better.

Most women really do want a world where men are healthier and happier - for its own sake, but also because they'd possibly be less violent and horrible toward women if they were.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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