Robert

It's patriarchy at its worst.

And it's very indicative of all conservative movements, frankly, where it's like this persecution complex that is inherent because other people are getting equality or because there are material conditions that the ultra-wealthy

have made worse.

And you need someone to blame instead of taking responsibility for yourself.

And if you are already, especially like a white, heterosexual, cisgender man, it is a lot easier to just blame it on someone else again.

Yeah, I think the thing that is most frustrating to me is that that lack of any sort of personal accountability, right?

You as a man,

And that was so weird to me.

It's like I was raised with some pretty toxic attitudes about masculinity, about like a man's responsibility.

Sure.

But it was never taught.

I was always taught that like it is important that you listen to other people when they tell you, hey, that made me feel uncomfortable or hey, that made me feel bad and alter your behavior because it's bad to make people feel uncomfortable.

And if someone tells you that you fucked up and you need to look at yourself and make changes, right?

I don't understand how that is just not a thing for so many people.

And it's like crazy.

But it's so common.

I mean, I think a lot of it as like as someone that was born in 99, like older Gen Z, a lot of it comes from like the complete elimination of third spaces.

Like we just don't interact with people anymore.

We don't like I wasn't allowed to play in the front yard because my dad was worried I'd get kidnapped, which definitely wasn't going to happen.

And so there's just like all of this distance.