Post by @TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world

2026-11-03 08:50 UTC

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu "Harder for men to reach out" 🤔 And none of those conditions are encountered by women. Interesting perspective considering the weight of living under the burden of misogyny that has the sole purpose to silence women asking their needs be met. Perhaps there's a need to reexamine exactly what's really going on? Maybe try changing your message to "it's difficult for men" would be less offensive and closer to the truth.

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@Fca@mastodon.uno 2026-11-03 09:00

@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t read the OM as “harder for men than it is for women”, but just as “harder than it would be without social constraints.”

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@Paul_Harts@mastodon.nl 2026-11-03 09:15

@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I kinda agree: “It’s more difficult for men” would be better wording. But the commission recently is very, very fond of ‘men’ vs ‘women’ since it generates a lot of traction on social media, and that’s what matters most nowadays. And as long as 2/3 or more of all suicides are committed by men, it’s not completely wrong to stop depicting them as the suppressors of women one month a year. Having said that, I really would like to see an end to all this polarisation between men and women by g be overnment institutions. PS: as the famous Dutch philosopher / comedian de Breij put it: “Women don’t need men to be suppressed, they are perfectly capable of doing that to themselves”.

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