I came across some wise words from someone who was asked "Is it okay to be a man?"
He replied "It's not okay; It's necessary.
You look around cities and see all these buildings go up. These men, they're doing impossible things. They're working on the sewers; they're up on the power lines in the storms and the rain. They work themselves to death, often literally
The gratitude for that is sorely lacking, especially among those who should be the most grateful."
Peterson has become a bit of a personal hero of mine in the last year. That man has such a wonderful understanding of how humans work.
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This is about toxic masculinity, something that is very existent and something which people desperately need to understand has grave, negative effects on both men and women. Hero worship for construction workers and those doing "dirty, manly" jobs is part of the problem. Of course it's ok to be what you are, and people need to be respected for who they are and for their hard and honest work, but to tie self-destructive toiling to masculinity is wrong and dangerous. Instead of being grateful to those men for destroying themselves, their job conditions must be improved. I have worked alongside construction quite a few years and it's not dominated by super muscular men lifting heavy weights til they literally break their backs any more. Jobs that physically hurt the worker need to be abolished and improved which is what some eqivalent to OSHA are regulating all over the world. Not every man can do hard physical work but many women can. No need for male martyrs.
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Just checked out his (J. Petersons) twatter and the quote is pretty much cut in half, the second part being a bullshit strawman rant against the "social justice bent" who of all people should be especially grateful to those toilers. Yeah, seems like the guy knows how humans work. And uses his skills to pit people against each other disguising it at as an appeal to gratitude. Way to go.
He replied "It's not okay; It's necessary.
You look around cities and see all these buildings go up. These men, they're doing impossible things. They're working on the sewers; they're up on the power lines in the storms and the rain. They work themselves to death, often literally
The gratitude for that is sorely lacking, especially among those who should be the most grateful."
There might be a gigchad way of saying it, but that's not done here.