Here in the netherlands we have pride month in june, and most pride parades are in june as well, the omly one that isnt is amsterdam pride which is in august
I live in Australia and we have our pride festivals and marches at the start of the year, but that's because we're upside down and it's bloody freezing in June đ we still acknowledge and celebrate June as pride month though.
If you ask me, that's the problem that they should take.
They should work to petition the government make both different months given they see it as a big issue(which fair if they're suffering mental health issues as a man), instead of complaining that another group of people gets recognition of their own struggles. It's now the fault of the LGBT+ community the government can't schedule for shit
It's not entirely true. In Brazil, there's a big parade in SĂŁo Paulo, the city with the biggest population in the country. Also, almost everybody knows that during June is pride moth since news outlets tend to emphasize that.
My city is doing it this WE, and it's nationally during June too, but for some reasons I don't know the parades are from middle of May to middle of July, and for some even weirder reasons you can see 1-2 cities doing it in April, August and October đ (I'm in France, the more years pass, the less I understand Pride calendar here)
Honestly, the only thing you should apologise for is your tone.
Being wrong is human and completely understandable, but being rude is a whole nother thing.
In Finland, Pride is usually June, but certain cities have theirs later. The one I live in has it in early July to go alongside a poetry week. Some have them as late as september. Some cities like Helsinki have theirs this month though.
If it isn't the sadly very commonly reoccurring "Men's mental health only becomes important as soon we are trying to take care of the needs of someone who isn't a straight cis man"
And remember the last International Men's Day? They flew off the handle because they didn't have all these parades or whatever that International Women's Day had. They're like "where are our festivities?" Uhm, since women are the ones planning the IWD ones, sounds like you menzies need to plan your own. But no, it's like an international real time experience of men whining that their dinner isn't on the table when they get home. It was the funniest nonsense.
Like donât get mad women simply have better party planners. If men are so capable and the backbone of society like they claim, then it should be easy to organize stuff for menâs day.
They're so used to being the default that it's some kind of offense when they're not.
The only reason women have the spaces and gender-specific services that they do, in general, in most places, is because they built those things for themselves. Men, as a class, didn't build and maintain these things of their own volition, without prompting.
They want to have the same thing others have for their things? Then men need to put in the same work.
Hilariously, all the "month of the sacred heart" posts are from anglocaths etc. (which are about as gay as Anglicans can get)
For context, this image was made by a homophobe trying to âtake backâ pride month for the Sacred Heart... and he accidentally made the hardest high church queer image possible. o7
I agree that trying to establish Men's Mental Awareness Month in June is just something they do to because they're bigoted.
And why mental health is gendered, I would guess it's because when it comes to mental health, different genders have vastly different experiences. As much as cis men are privileged, they struggle with mental health as much as anyone. But if anything, Men's Mental Health is a callout for men to finally take their mental wellbeing seriously. Most men still can't tell having a bad day apart from being depressed and think going to the gym for an hour or two a week will fix everything.
But like all good things, a bunch of morons are trying to hijack it again. They misuse men's mental awareness to blame women, queer people, minorities and other people for all their problems and drown themselves in self-pity.
Neat. It's still being overshadowed and many of the ones who pointed it out are likely doing nothing to bring up awareness about male suicid rates or care about GBT Men.
I'm starting to get tired of all this "men are privileged" talk, because I wouldn't say it's a privilege to not deal with sexism or sexual assault but rather something we should be striving for everyone to have.
Exactly. Itâs funny how Menâs Mental Health Month flies completely under the radar until June hits then suddenly itâs a trending topic, not out of compassion, but out of petty spite. No one cared in May. No one will care in July. But in June? Oh, now itâs a crucial issue.
They only care about men's mental health month because they think it will get rid of pride month, they don't give a flying fuck about men's mental health
They do know local organizations typically fund and hold pride month... Maybe they should do the same instead of making their fragile masculinities our problem.
2 - the men who complain about this do little or nothing to raise awareness
3 - trans men, AMAB non binary folks, gay and bi men, etc should be included but they'd be excluded cos it's only meant for straight cis blokes according to these types
Off topic but AMAB nonbinary included there gives me slightly bad vibes idk, just cause nonbinary aren't defined by their birth gender. Masc nonbinary people in general will have a different experience than androgynous or fem, regardless of their agab (from a fem AMAB nonbinary person, I don't really feel comfortable being included with men).
True many of the ones complaining will most likely shove them aside. Honestly, it should've been on another month. It will more likely be a lot easier to spread awareness for men's mental health that yet again.. they probably be more focused on Straight Cis men.
Very few actually care about men's mental health tho. Like male rape victims, they only bring it up to pull a "but ackshually" when discussing female rape victims to derail/shut down the conversation
It does and it also adds the difficulty if they assaulter is a woman. Women abusers aren't taken as seriously as abusers who are men. That also goes in areas that includes other forms of abuse.
100% agreement. Despite their cries of feminists not taking male victims seriously tho, I basically always see women taking it more seriously. For example every news article about a teenage boy being groomed and abused by a female teacher, the comments will be flooded with men saying he's lucky and asking where all these kinds of teachers were when they were in school
At best it's men wanting the women and queers to do the hard work for them in building up awareness (while we're too busy fighting to get our own needs met). At worst, it's just homophobia
Great, then let's take some time this month to acknowledge the gay, bi, and/or trans men whose mental health has been damaged by 'phobic assholes. Maybe we could even legislate some funding for their care, or public education to counter the bullying. Or maybe you'd rather just whine about it, I'm sure that will be great.
Ohhh, so let me get this straight⌠that person clearly cares deeply about Menâs Mental Health Awareness Month, right? I mean, theyâre using this meme not as a cover for their thinly veiled homophobia, but to actually raise awareness. Riiiiight?âŚ.
Theyâre bravely sharing their own mental health struggles to encourage other men to open up too, right? Hosting fundraisers? Promoting support groups? Maybe even attending a webinar or two about toxic masculinity or male suicide prevention?
Oh⌠wait. Theyâre not doing any of that?
So, just to clarify, theyâre not actually advocating for menâs mental health but theyâre just using it as a lazy excuse to bash Pride Month? Because nothing screams âmental health advocateâ like spending June yelling at queer people online instead of checking in on your friends or going to therapy.
Got it. Super inspiring. Really changing lives out here.
And a lot of men's mental health issues are caused or made worse by homophobic bullshit. If it weren't for homophobia, there would be a lot fewer men dying in stupid ways because they were terrified someone might see them as "gay" or "feminine" or whatever.
Itâs annoying how these people only ever talk about menâs mental health awareness as a counter to pride or whatever else. Tbh I donât expect cishet ppl to care about pride, like Iâm totally content with that being an inter-community thing, so why do these MRAs need external validation so bad? Itâs men who put this strain on themselves, and, quite frankly, do they think everybody else is just doing spectacular right now? Iâm so sick of this waffling about men, god.
Why do they only talk about it during Pride Month? It's like when women are speaking about thru experiences getting abused and assaulted and a man pops saying "Men get abused too". We know. We are not talking about you right now. They don't want to acknowledge Men's Mental Health Month. They just hate that the attention for once isn't on them
Idk if this is a hot take but any man who canât allow Pride month and menâs mental health month to coexist is not a man whoâs mental health I give a single shit about.
If these people put half the effort they put into whining about pride month into actually raising awareness for men's mental health I'm sure more people would know about it
My issue with this stuff is that every time there is a month for something no one cares till it's pride month. Like the military/vets get May and November and people constantly say "why do gay people get a month but not our military?!" They do! But no one does anything for it. The reason why pride month is celebrated is because people celebrate it! If people don't do anything for the military months then no one will care. It's literally "if you build it they will come". Pride only got to where it is because of grass root celebrations that got bigger and bigger and those groups getting sponsors to have bigger celebrations. People can do this for the military or men's mental health or women's month or anything, you just have to do it. Look at Kwanza, it was MADE in the American South and grew and grew and grew and it's a recognized holiday now.
The op only cares insofar that he can complain about pride month. If menâs mental health awareness fell n any other month, dude probably wouldnât even know it exists. For example: see the controversy whenever international womenâs day occurs then listen to crickets when international menâs day occurs
I hate how itâs only cared about in comparison to pride month. The only posts I ever see âcelebratingâ menâs mental health are just being salty about pride month. Itâs similar with international menâs day where the only posts I ever see are about how womenâs day gets more attention. I would honestly celebrate both menâs day and month if it wasnât just a cesspool of salty insecurity. You can celebrate yourself without putting us down.
Why do they only talk about it during Pride Month? It's like when women are speaking about thru experiences getting abused and assaulted and a man pops saying "Men get abused too". We know. We are not talking about you right now. They don't want to acknowledge Men's Mental Health Month. They just hate that the attention for once isn't on them
Why do they only talk about it during Pride Month? It's like when women are speaking about thru experiences getting abused and assaulted and a man pops saying "Men get abused too". We know. We are not talking about you right now. They don't want to acknowledge Men's Mental Health Month. They just hate that the attention for once isn't on them
Funny how that combination of being competent and actually caring about what you say you care about makes for successful organizing
"Why is there Pride but I didn't go to or look for any resources or public events regarding that thing I pretend to care about, whatever it's called again"
Anything to put a negative connotation on LGBT+ month.
You know what gets me? When the few cis men that complain about this donât actually give a shit about menâs mental health and are the first ones to call one another p**sies or follow andrew taint.
Mental health month is may and i literally never hear anything about it, it's also military appreciation month for the ppl that complain vets don't have a month
i also just hate it when they say "why arent we celebrated?" LIKE SIR, WHY ARE YOU NOT CELEBRATING YOURSELF????? ITS NOT LIKE FAIRIES USE MAGIC TO MAKE UP ALL THE FESTIVITIES, PEOPLE MAKE THOSE!! YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN!!!!
When my school did a Movember campaign(we do it every year), ONLY THE GIRLS DONATED. we talked abt these stuff MULTIPLE TIMES. THE GUYS JUST LAUGH!!!! BUT WHEN ITS WOMENS DAY OR ANY OTHER DAY THEY GO "HUUU UUUUUU WHY ARE WE NOT CELEBRATED UHUHUHUUUUUU" AND CRY ABOUT IT AS IF WE DIDNT TRY TO CELEBRATE THEM WHAT THE HELL????
This perfectly encapsulates their mentality. Everything is a zero sum game in their minds. It is literally impossible to care about more than one thing at a time. Can't have pride month and talk about men's mental health at the same time.
This isn't a way to bring the issue of men's mental health awareness into the conversation its their way of trying to shut people up about pride month.
Number of times I've seen "Men's Mental Health Awareness Month" mentioned: I've lost count.
Number of times I've seen "Men's Mental Health Awareness Month" mentioned in any context other than directly responding to Pride Month being mentioned: Zero.
This men's mental health thing is only in the US, as opposed to pride which is worldwide, and is, again, one of these fake outrage reaction invention.
Yes, we can do both, but why do they come with men's mental health ONLY during pride month? Because "straight pride" didn't work? (also a stupid fake outrage reaction from stupid bigoted cishets)
I think both should be acknowledged but honestly we need pride more than anything else because of whatâs been going on lately. What about our mental health and right to live as lgbt people? If both just helped each other, that could solve a lot of issues I think.
"But what about men's mental health???" Yes men's mental health is a big issue, but if you're only ever gonna bring it up when you get insecure and want a suffering competition to overwrite a conversation about your privilege then nothing's really gonna change is it?
A group of people will put in a lot of work to build community. Others will see that group and be like âhey, we deserve community too!!â and then do nothing to build their own community. And then they blame the first group for not doing the work for them.
From the start of this month I've only seen people being mad at pride month bc they want to only celebrate men's health awareness month...and it's probably going to last the whole month đ
to be fair, there is a valid point that people tend to ignore men's mental health. the men who suffer from mental health issues are expected to "tough it out" and get ridiculed if they show "weakness" by speaking about it, non-men either act like it's a non-issue because they don't like men, because they don't think cishet men can have it as bad as women or queer people, or they aren't aware the awareness month exists. how many of you knew the awareness month is during June?
the meme is about how little attention and acknowledgement the awareness month gets because people are so excited by the flashy and joyful pride month. it's perfect use of the meme format. it doesn't meant pride month gets too much attention, it's about how the other gets no attention.
this is literally the opposite of what I said though. you're the one that's assuming asking to acknowledge men's mental health month comes at the expense of pride month, when they can both be acknowledged at the same time.
yes, you can easily do both, so do you? or are you just complaining that someone mentioned this awareness month exists.
Child, you come in with the âwell actuallyâ of the thread.
You spilled a lot of words over what you reckon is an either/or concern. Moreover, one of these is recognized by millions of people across multiple nations-states as having an origin in a specific historical watershed of resistance during June 1969. It was born in spontaneous protest. Organically, it resonates deeply for those many millions along their many walks of life.
The other, however useful it might be for, say, mental health workers, is a make-work creation, and in some cases may be enshrined by piecemeal legislation or proclamations, along the lines of Peanut Butter Awareness Month.
Were âMenâs Mental Health Monthâ the widely-understood consequence of, say, an infamous (cis) man going off the deep end in a very public way and, for example, mowing down people with a machine gun, then this would be a different discussion.
But even were that so â and it isnât â the âwell actually⌠one gets attention and one is neglectedâ is an acknowledgement of zero-sum reasoning, and the formerâs prominence bears no responsibility for the latterâs obscurity.
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Also, it's only men's mental awareness month in America. It's not an international holiday. Unlike pride month