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You said a lot here, but I'll just reply to the bit directed at me. I'm actually doing just fine with dealing with being a man w/o adhering to societal norms. It's a pretty common thread amongst my friends that I'm just barely a man (jokingly). I don't consider societal expectations of masculinity when deciding what I'm going to do or enjoy, being a man is an almost entirely negligible part of my self image.

That's largely where my comment comes from. It's hard to distill the nuance of "men are a massive problem, but it's not really an inherent set of traits, rather a pervasive and toxic ideology that is impressed on men as soon as they leave the womb" into a quippy one liner.

"Men are the problem" is more speaking to the concept of masculinity being inherently limiting and in many ways antisocial, rather than people of the male sex being intrinsically flawed. I think we're pretty much on the same page of being frustrated with how shitty men act purely for the goal of appearing manly.