[UFC President] Dana White says that men should NEVER talk about their mental health struggles publicly:
“Talking about it publicly, I just feel like it opens the door to make young men think that it’s OK to just f**king go, ‘Oh, I’m having mental [health issues] (White says in a whiny voice).’”
“Handle it behind closed doors. Don’t show that weakness to anybody.”
“I am unapologetically masculine. What is toxic masculinity? Who has it? Who’s too masculine?”
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What is toxic masculinity?
This is. I mean, I am a cisman with above-average testosterone levels. And even I’d say “FUCK YOU!!!”. You’re only hurting decent men by shaming them into keeping all their mental health struggles bottled up. And yeah, I have mental health struggles, and I’m not too ashamed to admit it. I have a depression with the occasional suicidal thoughts, social anxiety, am borderline-neurotic, have severe self-confidence issues, walk around almost every day mentally exhausted, and several other things. And if I never admitted to any of them, I wouldn’t remotely have gotten the help I needed to make life liveable to this day.
Admitting to needing help is NOT weakness, far from it. After all, how else are you ever going to strengthen yourself?
So, yeah, men (wether cis, trans, or anything in-between), don’t listen to this Asshole. Struggling with life is normal (especially when douches like the OP are in charge…). And there is no shame in just asking for help. After all, as my father sometimes says “You already have a ‘no’, you can still get a ‘yes’.”
“Men who admit to being vulnerable are less manly than me, a whiny bitch-boy with a girl’s name!”
Ouch, Dana. That hurt. But not me, because I’m 100% bacon-eating, beard-growing, nail-spitting, dick-swinging man. I’m fine. You sound like you’re going through some shit, though. You okay?
@Bastethotep
Is Dana compensating for having a first name most Westerners would assume to be feminine?
Marion Robert Morrison - a.k.a. John Wayne - and Carroll Shelby never whined the way the OP is here: but I bet you would go all $cientology over any & all psychologists calling you out on this, Dana. [/Freud]
“ What is toxic masculinity? Who has it? Who’s too masculine?”
Had a D&D campaign, once, where the Dungeon Master had been an Army Ranger. Every wizard, cleric, and thief had their encumbrance calculated to the nearest gram, but for fighters, he just figured they’d muscle through it.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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