Never said that men aren’t hit with self esteem issues. My main contention is that men, in my experience, do not have nearly the same set of body image difficulties as women. Men being hit with depression and Suicide rates is real and it’s important, but I don’t attribute that to body image. I thought the topic was bad body image, not low self esteem in general?
Because boys from a young age are mostly told to ignore their feelings, don't be crybabies and bury their emotions where they can't find them.
So they just lock themselves away from society or end up in some dead-end job as they slowly drink or drug themselves to death.
Girls are taught to share their feelings, emotions and society is told to take into account those emotions.
Many men have insecurities, which is why you receive daily: "make your dick big" or "get muscles by drinking steroids" spam because there are enough sobbing desperate insecure man people who click on them.
Just think of how many boys get bullied in schools. My brother ended up with PTSD from persistent bullying that he's just now getting therapy for after not telling anyone he had suicidal thoughts on a daily basis and big crowds scared him for over 15 years.
In my country there are scores of men married to women, have children but who are actually gay and meet-up with gay dudes on specially allocated parking lots.
They were never allowed to show their true feelings and simply decided to settle for what was considered 'normal'. So they started living their alternative gay life 20 or 30 years later when it became accepted by society.
There's a lot of problems in man-world but no one is really allowed to discuss them without being considered anti-feminist.
After all, straight white males are all privileged and shouldn't complain about anything.
