men loneliness, patriarchy, society

"i think the moment i was disillusioned about life was when i was maybe 7 years old and realized the reason all my friends had become assholes was because boys arent allowed to have any physical contact that isnt fighting

my parents were hippie feminists so my brother and i could play clapping games and sleep in puppy piles and give eachother weird hairdos, but all the 'normal' boys just up and stopped knowing how to touch anyone without hitting sometime betweeen kindergarten and first grade

and my little kid mind briefly saw the vastness of life stretching out in front of all of us, and all the hugs everyone would need and not get, and for a moment i was just like

maybe life is not such a good idea after all

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i strongly suspect that a lot of str8 dude feelings of ennoscriptment to women's bodies, particularly the bodies of their wives and girlfriends, is a direct result of those women being the only non-violent physical contact they're allowed to have"