I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Hating people isn’t a productive way of living. So what’s the point in hating anyone? There’s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
If toxic masculinity was just about men posturing around each other in a comical fashion, that would be one thing, but this persistent pressure to constantly be proving manhood and warding off anything considered feminine or emasculating is the main reason why we have so many damn shootings in the U…
— Amanda Marcotte transcribed by James Hamblin, theatlantic.com
This is where the argument risks losing traction, in that it has made men across the Internet defensive. ‘Not all men’ has been a boorish rejoinder to critiques of masculinity, but an informative one. No one wants to be implicated in this violence— not all gun owners, not all bipolar patients, not a…
When men seek that control — when we feel it’s our due — and don’t achieve it, we can resent and hate. Toxic masculinity sets expectations that prime us for disappointment. We turn that disappointment on ourselves and others as anger and hatred.
In the face of hate and violence, we will love one another. We will not give in to fear.
And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.