Comments by "Maggie" (@maggie6152) on "What Happened To The Male Breadwinner?" video.

  1. As a woman who has been in a male dominated industries and spaces, THIS is one of the most terrifying aspects.
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  2.  @cjmhall  I feel that way about both women AND men. If you're passion project is something that won't end up with money coming in down the road and you're just sitting on your butt playing video games or just putting on makeup and buying clothes without contributing to the household through either childcare or doing every household chore, yeah, that's hella unattractive. And men SHOULDN'T date women like that either. Being a couple is being a team and if both members aren't contributing to the team to solve problems to a relatively equal degree, it's not healthy. I personally would be fine with being the breadwinner for a guy going to college, is a stay at home dad, or became disabled but they need to be doing the emotional/house labor just as women would do in those situation, which a TON of men are very resistant to even trying.
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  3. Cinema Therapy, Thor from Pirate Software, the Game Grumps, HealthyGamerGG, Critical Role (DnD roleplaying show), Dr. Glaucomflecken (hilarious skit comedian that talks about the silliness and insanity in the medical world), the Fire Department Chronicles (first responder comedian--there can be dark and frightening stuff as it's a career that deals with, well, responding to emergency 911 calls). Some of these are for more teenage or adult audiences, so if your kiddo is young, view them first on your own. All are on youtube. Cinema Therapy is a great one to find movies and shows with great role models to watch, too. There's a lot in the realm of nerds, psychology, healthcare, and teachers. Look for men who are in legitimate helper roles that care for their community and can laugh at themselves.
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  4.  @manifest2203  I've been trying to help men for most of my life and overwhelmingly the only time they are supportive to other men is when they are hating on women. I keep telling them they need to support and be kinder to OTHER MEN and I just get the wall of "that's not how male relationships work" or ""you're just trying to make us into women", It is so, so frustrating because a major answer to the male loneliness epidemic is for men to be more supportive to other men WITHOUT needing to hate and degrade another group. It's so frustrating and I feel helpless to stop this nightmare as a woman. Don't even get me started about trying to get them to see a bloody therapist to deal with all the unhealed parental trauma that has led to this crap. As a woman, I WANT to help men, but because I'm a woman, my advice is automatically lesser and discarded even though I've been through a large amount of things men go through (suppressing emotions, having no emotional support with friends, extreme isolation, having society hate me [I'm disabled]). I've grown up with men, my friends through my entire life have been 85% men and I've personally observed the problematic behaviors and how they develop through every stage of life. But it doesn't matter outside of a small amount of men I've met and am still friends with because I'm a woman. They want women to fix the problem, but don't respect women enough to learn from them.
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