About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.

  • Impassionata@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In my left leaning circles it’s pretty well understood that feminism is about helping women. And that’s a good thing. Trying to make feminism an ideology which serves all genders is problematic because it implies an omniscient perspective counter to proper intersectionality. Men experience oppression but only men can represent their oppression in discourse.

    Women can’t and shouldn’t feel like they can have an opinion on men’s issues. “Stay in your lane” comes to mind.

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      1 year ago

      I think you can help people and stand up for people being hurt regardless of what you got in your pants. Yes, education and personal experience may allow you to do a better job at it clearly a medical professsional can solve problems that I cant for example, but most of the time I think basic empathy can get you pretty far.

      A homeless woman this week asked me for water, I gave her a bottle of water. I don’t think I need to be a women or ten courses of feminism to know that humans need water to survive.