atomicbabyeater:
halfhardtorock:
Straight men who infantilize women’s friendships have no fucking survival instinct. Like my uncle is always making fun of and rolling his eyes at my aunt’s friend lunches and telephone dates with her lady friends, teasing her like she’s a gossipy teenage girl in high school drama. And my aunt just laughs about it but I know for a fact that if it wasn’t for her best friend K, she would have probably set him on fire by now.
Like straight men are capable of maybe a quarter of the indepth emotional labor and support women do for each other. Like men can literally have one friend named Bob that they go fishing with once a year and still be content for life. Then they think it’s cute and girlish that their wives have these long term, integrated, emotionally intense relationships with women but like…LOL, it’s not because men don’t need those kinds of relationships, it’s just that they get it all from their wives while offering peanuts in return. PEANUTS.
Like if your woman is on the phone for 2 hours with her friend and you think that’s childish of her, just know that she spent half of that time getting the support that you should be giving her (but are incapable of) and the rest lamenting what a giant fucking baby manchild you are.
This way over generalizes straight men. Like a lot. There are plenty of men that do offer a lot of emotional support for their wives and friends. I know for a fact that their are several straight men who are kind hearted and offer infinitely more than “peanuts.” I try not to argue with people on the Internet but this is just bullshit. You literally said straight men are incapable of giving support. I don’t know what experiences you’ve had with straight men but don’t think that applies to everyone
Oh SEVERAL men. I guess me and the thousands of people who related to this must be wrong.