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>>21241031
I just think men have failed in recent years to demonstrate why anyone should actually cede authority and respect to them. I agree that the modern world has definitely in many ways made a lot of people soft and pliable, a whole host of types who gravitate towards short-term convenience over any kind of long-term value that may in any way involve a kind of struggle.

But the men I see in the public sphere rarely, if ever, come off as authentic examples of masculinity, and they are poor reasons alone for anyone, especially women, to place their trust in them.

No one should ever have to prove why they're worthy of personhood or respect--those things, in my opinion, should be granted gratis as an initial courtesy, and evaluated contextually over time.

That being said, if men truly want to regain their station, there has to be a significant change. Looking around at many of the men I see in day-to-day life, there are strong and good men out there--there are also hordes of weak or soft men, and many of those are the types who find their ways into institutions of power and influence that have been infested, in some ways even built by, their kind for a long time. They're not bad people or bad men at their core, but they drag all of us down and allow social decay to occur because they're too obstinate to admit their shortcomings. To me, it's these men, not women, who are to blame for the present situation.