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Is this a valid opinion or am I being a dick? (I’m op.)
My friend makes hating men her ENTIRE personality and it’s extremely draining and lowkey shatters my confidence and makes me scared to transition. (I’m ftm.)
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Anonymous 16w

She’s realistically either going to change her view on men or not respect you as man.

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Anonymous 16w

valid opinion, i was in the same boat when i first came out as ftm. had a friend like that who completely saw me as a man, but then proceeded to bully me because i was a man. life got better when i cut her off

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Anonymous 16w

Honestly people who fall into the extreme of hating all men, not just being cautious or weary of men, but actively hating every single man, are pretty toxic people and cannot be pleased. I’ve had friends like this and I had to cut people off because it was hurting me(ftm) and my boyfriend(cis) because we both know we’re not dangerous men and we don’t need to say “not all men” because we know it doesn’t apply to us, but people who make it about us when we’re healthy, safe, gay men, it hurts us

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Anonymous 16w

what she should be doing is criticizing the patriarchy that allows shitty men to do shitty things, hating men as a concept is missing the issue

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Anonymous 16w

Casually saying “oh I hate men” as a way to express frustration when a man does something misogynistic is something I’m fine with personally. I get it, men can be insufferable dumbfucks sometimes Making it your whole personality and having a genuine hatred is a red flag. That’s not just frustration being blown off at that point

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Anonymous 16w

personally, i prefer to not spend a ton of time with people for whom loathing men is that much of a constant and it’s not that i think they’re bad / immoral for expressing that stuff—in fact i generally think it’s totally understandable to harbor resentment for a demographic who’s oppressing you. it’s rly just that that kind of talk stresses me out, so i limit how much of it i hear

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Anonymous 16w

I mean from my experience I have met a lot of people like this and they are all some form of terrible person so like I’d lowkey drop em

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 16w

(for context: been thinking about this type of issue for several years now, because i thought i “hated men” pre-transition too; i’m bigender tho so it’s possible i might approach this subject differently from how most binary trans guys would)

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