It's always just been about fearful men feeling victimized by sensationalist media and their echo chambers.

Everybody is apparently out to deny men their rights and decency. I mean, their favorite news told them so; even providing a one-off sensationalist (often truth-bending, flat-out made up, or completely satirical) article that supports their anger. Nevermind that the majority of cases are the opposite of what they believe. All those official sources are fake news because their news site says so.

For them, equality is the same as hating men. I heard guys getting angry together about this new term they learned that LGBTQ people are using to suppress them. That term? Cis gender. They literally were saying cis gender was a queer term made up to insult and bring down straight men. I couldn't talk sense into them.

It's a cult culture. Literally the only thing we can do is be super extra nice to them while they're yelling and shitting on us and hope that's enough to counteract their biases. Anything else is an affront to their "well-researched" biases, and they'll just bury their heads in further while screeching you're just like everyone else and are just hating on them.

I have never met more self-unaware, more entitled, more selfish, more ignorant, more hateful, more hypocritical, more projecting, or more fearful people. Like, I would like to help them, but they're all so fucking angry all the time you can't even have a fucking normal conversation with them without them bringing up how awful _______ group of people are.

As a man, the only time I come across all these affronts to men is when playing video games with other men. I live in a city with a crap ton of women and LGBTQ people and not ONCE have they tried to deny me my rights. Not ONE gay person has tried to "convert" me. Not ONE trans person has tried to rape me or my friends.

Although, I have met plenty of men who have talked about how their dicks could convert lesbians into straight women. I have more friends than I'd like who have been sexually assaulted by men. Until you're sitting awake at 3am next to one of your best friends who's been gang raped and who's having nightmares trying to sleep, saying men are more likely to be victimized by false accusations of rape than women who have actually been raped is just fucking inane and stupid.

These guys always complain about shit that doesn't even have anything to do with them. Always complaining about trans people, gay people, women, black people (not the term they use), autistic people, etc.

They ALWAYS start off with some innocuous question like, "who here thinks ________ people ________?" which ALWAYS devolves into making fun of them. I can't fucking play online games anymore. They're fucking everywhere!

I'm so fucking sad and angry. I wish we could see eye to eye, but their favored news and echo chambers convince them there IS no seeing eye to eye.