I've recently been reading up on the philosophies of the stoics. This is one quite good excerpt that I think is important to everyone here. This sub is not for the tossing out of misogynistic articles and videos. It is a forum for men helping each other out as they go whatever way they like.

N.B. The following paragraph is an excerpt from a book, it was not written by me and is not my intellectual property. The translation I use is by George Long in the Dover Thrift Edition of the Enchiridion by Epictetus; from point V:

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things: for example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were, it would have seemed so to Socrates; for the opinion about death, that it is terrible, is the terrible thing. When then we are impeded or disturbed or grieved, let us never blame others, but ourselves, that is, our opinions. It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Women are not the enemy, the government is not the enemy, no one is the enemy. It is the opinions about and surrounding women (which women end up subscribing to) that are at fault, those opinions about what women should or shouldn't do and what men should or shouldn't do concerning women lead to the issues men face today. What I'm getting at is that no one should expect or not expect women to do anything. Nor should men expect themselves to be doing something that they aren't doing. Likewise, in turn, women shouldn't expect men to do anything. Yet, the opinion of society preaches what it preaches about what men and women ought to do. Self-examination uninfluenced by opinion is the key. Should we as men go out and rein in some woman, marry her, provide for her etc.? Perhaps, but only if that man decides that that's what he himself wants to do. Likewise, should a woman submit to a man and take care of the house while looking after his children? Perhaps, if that is what she herself decides to do. Again, what's to be done in your life shouldn't come from what is expected of you but what you yourself decide to do so that if you run into something that impedes you, you have no one to blame.

Thanks for reading this far, and good luck out there.