Sometimes I find a thread about a thing I was just talking about last night.

*Boys get depressed
*Boys get eating disorders
*Boys commit suicide
*Boys get called fat
*Boys get called ugly
*Boys get hit/abused by girls
*Boys get suicidal
*Boys feel pain

It’s NOT just girls that go through a hard time, it’s boys too. People need to start realising this.

— Brent Conner (@brentconner_) August 15, 2018

This message is important.

That toxic masculinity has feminized these issues means that boys continue to be told to pretend they don’t suffer them and to stay emotionally illiterate.

And we refuse to support them.

And they become men without emotional tools. https://t.co/dLNKrHXd35

— 5’7” Black Male (@absurdistwords) August 17, 2018

Patriarchy and toxic masculinity feed off of the generational reinforcement and normalization of unethical practices and beliefs as natural truths.

Boys are not born patriarchal.

— 5’7” Black Male (@absurdistwords) August 17, 2018

Specifically, I was talking about why the suicide rate for men always tops that of women. There are many reasons, of course, but this thread gets at what I think is a basis.

I love the line ‘Boys are not born patriarchal.’