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Originally Posted by djsFlames
I've never been super rah rah with the progressive social media fueled movements, but if there's something i think would pay big dividends in today's western culture it's that I think we need to normalize complimenting men the way we already do women.
No one bats an eye when a woman is complimented on her hair/accessories/outfit etc, and its a normal part of our culture. But men can go week, months or even years without hearing a genuine compliment about anything they are or do. And I think part of it is that it's just not as conventional and maybe is automatically interpreted by some to be flirting rather than just saying something nice? Been trying to wrap my mind around why there is more hesitancy to pay compliments to men in public settings. Obviously its not unheard of and I've been blessed enough to hear something nice now and again from people around work, but there is still undeniably a huge discrepancy on this side if the fence and if there anything that I think our culture could easily change with a bit of awareness it's this.
Here you have men disproportionately dominating the rates of suicides that are successfully carried out and I think you can trace that back to men generally lacking a real bearing on their value in the world. Many are intelligent, strong people to those that depend on them and work alongside them but have no idea that they bring this value to the lives of people in their circles just because it isn't expressed.
Anyways.. that's my thought.
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Just don't PM Wormius with a compliment that you enjoy his posts and are happy he is on CP. He'll go to the open forum and out you for being weird.