mekka okereke Nov 19, 2024

Happy international men's day!

Reminder to be more like Black men!

Black men:
* Are seen as more masculine
* See themselves as more masculine
* But we do more stuff considered feminine?🙂🙃
* And no one says a damn thing!

Because this whole masculinity thing is made up and a scam. Stop hurting yourself!

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113051689610950204

No seriously, stop hurting yourself. Black men have one of the lowest age adjusted suicide rates.👍🏿 White men? One of the highest.

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] If you look at political surveys of how people feel about big issues, Black men align much more closely to women, than men overall. 🤯 * Should men participate in childcare? * Should you wear a mask during a pandemic? * Is it OK for men to hug their male friends? * Is it OK for men to wear pink? * Should abortion be legal? * Is it ok for tampons and pads to be in a men's bathroom? * How concerned are you about the environment and global warming? * Has feminism helped or hurt women?

Hachyderm.io
Show threadcraignicolNov 24, 2024
@mekkaokereke I wonder if that's a result of Black men traditionally having many more female role models than White men? So strength and success are not seen as purely male attributes? There's plenty of white women who were written out of history in favour of their husbands or colleagues.
Show threadmekka okereke Nov 24, 2024

@craignicol

I think it has more to do with the puritanical influence on US culture.

The toxicity is not a white thing, so much as a white American thing.

For example, men in Sweden or Finland are as involved in childcare as Black men in the US are. Men in Europe are much more likely to wear pink, eat gelato in public (gasp!), hug their friends, etc. as a result, European men are much less lonely than American men.

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2024/03/middle-aged-americans-lonelier

So Black men are unique in this regard *In America*.

Show threadcraignicolNov 24, 2024
@mekkaokereke there's definitely a stronger gender balance in Scandinavia and it's spread to some places in Europe, but certainly not places like Italy, which has a dramatically low birth rate partially because women just won't (see also the 4b appropriation in USA, but Italy's objection is more individual than organised)
Show threadcraignicolNov 24, 2024
@mekkaokereke you can see just how low Italy's birth rate is here. Like Japan, the birth rate is well below the replacement level, so the population is shrinking leaving a shrinking younger population to look after a growing older population. I can see this happening in the USA too, but that's going to put a lot more pressure on an already fragile white male population, which is not going to help the numbers in the graphs you presented.
Show threadmekka okereke Nov 24, 2024

@craignicol

I have zero sympathy for any country lamenting "population decline." Population decline is not a real thing.

"Replacement rate" is not a real thing either.

Every country on earth with a shrinking population, could solve all of their population shaping problems with immigration.

There is no shortage of people that want to be citizens of your country. There's only racism and xenophobia.

Show threadJürgen HubertNov 27, 2024
@mekkaokereke @craignicol And there's a _lot_ of racism and xenophobia. The German fascist party #AfD is doubling down on that, emphasizing a "return to the traditional family" while wanting to deport millions of immigrants - whether they have German citizenship or not. And too many of the other German political parties try to present themselves as "tough on immigration" in order to appease the fascist voters, a strategy which has never worked.
Show threadcraignicol
@juergen_hubert @mekkaokereke does Germany have the same problem as UK where it's as much the fascist press as the fascist voters the politicians are chasing, because no-one hates foreigners as much as the newspaper owners
Nov 27, 2024 at 11:11amWeb
Show threadJürgen HubertNov 27, 2024

@craignicol @mekkaokereke Some newspapers and media are okay, but there are definitely some very influential newspapers who are pandering to the fascists. This guy is probably the worst offender.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_D%C3%B6pfner

Mathias Döpfner - Wikipedia