Men’s Mental Health Month, observed in June, has been an official holiday since 1994, where it was first known as National Men's Health Week. Then-President Clinton signed the observance into effect. It serves to shed light on the mental health struggles faced by men, dismantle deeply-ingrained societal stigmas and encourage open conversations about men’s mental well-being, as well.

This observance promotes awareness, education, and support for men dealing with various mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, and suicide. Men’s Mental Health Month provides an opportunity to destigmatize seeking help, highlight available resources, and foster a culture that values men’s mental health, ultimately contributing to overall wellness and improved quality of life for men everywhere.

men

Despite sigmas???
That is so skibbidi ohio

men men boys

hope all the males here are doing alright! stay strong out there <333

also unrelated but june is also pride month :3

lessss ggooooooooo

virtue generator 9000 wrote:

This observance promotes awareness, education, and support for men

Let's be real it does almost none of that. These 'awareness' months achieve absolutely nothing and the main motive behind pushing this garbage is the free internet points that come packaged with their brief mention.

make a thread playing on pride month

the femboy gets horny anyway

the pride month haters still hate regardless


successful thread

Ymir wrote:

virtue generator 9000 wrote:

This observance promotes awareness, education, and support for men

Let's be real it does almost none of that. These 'awareness' months achieve absolutely nothing and the main motive behind pushing this garbage is the free internet points that come packaged with their brief mention.

^ something like this. it's pretty apparent that many people do take this in earnest, but i'm sure it can be argued that at least some not-insignificant portion of it is performative, in magnifying emotive affect if little else. even acknowledging the substantive population of people that evidently care (surely in sentiment, but to what effect, in what form, to what end?), this doesn't... really seem meaningfully substantive for what its supposed mission is, but that seems genuinely like a matter of not Doing Anything with it or taking time to curate an environment for that (and in attempting this, it'd still be likely ineffective if mediated through some kind of catch-all generalized method, given that the mental health of men will be conditioned some way or another by far too vast a variety of distinct causes and particular contexts), rather than a wholly misplaced sentiment imo

maybe more intuitively, humans are human? we fundamentally think in definitively different frames, we generally feel and regulate/release feeling, and then do it sloppily or obliviously or ignorantly. many of us are hardly aware of our own fault points or what rationale could meaningfully apply in order to convince us and compel change from us. attempts from others to psychoanalyze us will sometimes be projections, or will be shallow and misdirected, or something else. attempts from others to identify sociological phenomena will not be thoroughly comprehensive or meaningfully compelling enough to unify others, when there are hundreds of thousands of frameworks to interpret each other with. hard to imagine a Day of Observance working quite too well, unless it's something people mostly-uniformly experience or understand, relatively unmuddled by idiosyncratic conception

surely there's a counterpoint to my impressions somewhere, it's just not immediately apparent to me yet

Patatitta wrote:

make a thread playing on pride month

the femboy gets horny anyway

the pride month haters still hate regardless

successful thread

real <333

Ymir wrote:

virtue generator 9000 wrote:

This observance promotes awareness, education, and support for men

Let's be real it does almost none of that. These 'awareness' months achieve absolutely nothing and the main motive behind pushing this garbage is the free internet points that come packaged with their brief mention.

tbh I committed academic plagiarism with this thread lol

Ymir wrote:

virtue generator 9000 wrote:

This observance promotes awareness, education, and support for men

Let's be real it does almost none of that. These 'awareness' months achieve absolutely nothing and the main motive behind pushing this garbage is the free internet points that come packaged with their brief mention.

it also allows ppl to make cynical and bitter posts exactly like this decrying the intent of the "awareness month" in the first place. but you're also right, to an extent. this has ostensibly been a thing since the 1990s, but I never knew about it until recently. definitely never heard about this shit when I was in the military. I attempted suicide at my unit in 2009 and was sent to a program where we basically sat there for several hours to watch powerpoint presentations on why killing yourself was bad for morale and not, you know, bad for you. and the moral judgement of suicide varied wildly. I never deployed, I was a 19 year old experiencing severe culture shock and being reminded of my shitty childhood, and because of that, my attempt to take my own life was never taken as seriously as the dudes who had deployed and saw combat and came back wanting to kill themself. even tho the end result in both situations was a literal dead man. I specifically stay away from my VA health resources because of these stigmas. I had the gall to call into the veteran suicide hotline one time and it ended up in cops breaking into my house, stealing my benzos, and putting me on a 5150, causing me to miss work. never doing that shit again.

you can't dismantle deeply-ingrained societal stigmas around men's mental health in the real world when the discussion about these stigmas primarily exist online. telling people to be aware that men suffer from mental health is a good thing imo but there is a significant difference in telling another man they matter thru text and telling another man they matter to their face. western cultures expect men to be disposable. telling a man they actually aren't disposable will force them to confront difficult ideas and some dudes simply do not want to do that. some dudes can't.

Ymir wrote:

virtue generator 9000 wrote:

This observance promotes awareness, education, and support for men

Let's be real it does almost none of that. These 'awareness' months achieve absolutely nothing and the main motive behind pushing this garbage is the free internet points that come packaged with their brief mention.

Absolutely. There is no need for "awareness" months. You just fucking do what you're saying to your feed.

xch00F wrote:

telling people to be aware that men suffer from mental health is a good thing imo

100% agree. Here's my question: why the fuck did we need to say this in the first place? Are some people this mentally limited to believe men, in general, don't suffer from mental issues?

Winnyace wrote:

100% agree. Here's my question: why the fuck did we need to say this in the first place? Are some people this mentally limited to believe men, in general, don't suffer from mental issues?

lol are you being serious? there are countless ppl who believe that men either do not suffer from mental issues or, if they do, they should not talk about it. it's a weakness to be overcome by one's self.
imo one big problem with calling out virtue signaling in an aggressive way like this is that while your intent may be to call out ppl performatively caring about these issues, you come across as performatively uncaring.

anyways who is making the pride month thread tomorrow

Winnyace wrote:

xch00F wrote:

telling people to be aware that men suffer from mental health is a good thing imo

100% agree. Here's my question: why the fuck did we need to say this in the first place? Are some people this mentally limited to believe men, in general, don't suffer from mental issues?

I mean there are people convinced that mental illnesses doesn't exist at all or that they can be cured by essential oils so I wouldn't be too surprised, but yeah, in many ways this specific pride month feels like counter culture

xch00F wrote:

Winnyace wrote:

100% agree. Here's my question: why the fuck did we need to say this in the first place? Are some people this mentally limited to believe men, in general, don't suffer from mental issues?

lol are you being serious? there are countless ppl who believe that men either do not suffer from mental issues or, if they do, they should not talk about it. it's a weakness to be overcome by one's self.
imo one big problem with calling out virtue signaling in an aggressive way like this is that while your intent may be to call out ppl performatively caring about these issues, you come across as performatively uncaring.

Fair enough. I, personally, have a hard time believing people would belief in 2024 that men don't suffer from mental health issues, but I guess everything is possible.

About the calling out virtue signaling in an aggressive way, I agree, especially when the both sides don't really know each other and their individual history regarding a topic.

Winnyace wrote:

Fair enough. I, personally, have a hard time believing people would belief in 2024 that men don't suffer from mental health issues, but I guess everything is possible.

Jangsoodlor wrote:

It serves to shed light on the mental health struggles faced by men, dismantle deeply-ingrained societal stigmas and encourage open conversations about men’s mental well-being, as well.

congratulations, you are now more aware of the deeply-ingrained societal stigmas that men face in regards to mental well-being. it seems the performative virtue signaling may have in fact worked

Patatitta wrote:

anyways who is making the pride month thread tomorrow

i will! if someone doesn't do it before me that is

xch00F wrote:

Ymir wrote:

virtue generator 9000 wrote:

This observance promotes awareness, education, and support for men

Let's be real it does almost none of that. These 'awareness' months achieve absolutely nothing and the main motive behind pushing this garbage is the free internet points that come packaged with their brief mention.

it also allows ppl to make cynical and bitter posts exactly like this decrying the intent of the "awareness month" in the first place. but you're also right, to an extent. this has ostensibly been a thing since the 1990s, but I never knew about it until recently. definitely never heard about this shit when I was in the military. I attempted suicide at my unit in 2009 and was sent to a program where we basically sat there for several hours to watch powerpoint presentations on why killing yourself was bad for morale and not, you know, bad for you. and the moral judgement of suicide varied wildly. I never deployed, I was a 19 year old experiencing severe culture shock and being reminded of my shitty childhood, and because of that, my attempt to take my own life was never taken as seriously as the dudes who had deployed and saw combat and came back wanting to kill themself. even tho the end result in both situations was a literal dead man. I specifically stay away from my VA health resources because of these stigmas. I had the gall to call into the veteran suicide hotline one time and it ended up in cops breaking into my house, stealing my benzos, and putting me on a 5150, causing me to miss work. never doing that shit again.

you can't dismantle deeply-ingrained societal stigmas around men's mental health in the real world when the discussion about these stigmas primarily exist online. telling people to be aware that men suffer from mental health is a good thing imo but there is a significant difference in telling another man they matter thru text and telling another man they matter to their face. western cultures expect men to be disposable. telling a man they actually aren't disposable will force them to confront difficult ideas and some dudes simply do not want to do that. some dudes can't.

i sympathize more with this at face-value (there are several directions this sentiment can take from there onward)

that, and i'm usually hesitant to accept cynical derision/dismissal of sociologically-relevant phenomena in general. maybe it's a misnomer to identify these critiques as necessarily "cynical"? but that reads more as a matter of us not being able to read each other's intent, and only being able infer it until the explicit motive is revealed for that contextual frame of underlying beliefs and experiences

additionally, just to personally reach through, this makes total sense as a precedent for so much of the distrust and exhaustion likely felt (if not by you, then general populations that i observe to be growing increasingly guarded and insular, or otherwise weary of people and forces and institutions beyond/around them that leave things worse than they were). i'm hopeful for the possibility that people learn to consider this kind of shit with more sincere gravity, and treat you and others in similar positions with the grace and patience of... i don't know, actually listening to you when you have shit to testify about with firsthand experience of absurdities people refuse to believe. ultimately, the ideal probably being that "something is done about it", which i can't quite specify in my lack of understanding quite what it is that structurally/systemically would be needed here for effective positive change

Winnyace wrote:

xch00F wrote:

Winnyace wrote:

100% agree. Here's my question: why the fuck did we need to say this in the first place? Are some people this mentally limited to believe men, in general, don't suffer from mental issues?

lol are you being serious? there are countless ppl who believe that men either do not suffer from mental issues or, if they do, they should not talk about it. it's a weakness to be overcome by one's self.
imo one big problem with calling out virtue signaling in an aggressive way like this is that while your intent may be to call out ppl performatively caring about these issues, you come across as performatively uncaring.

Fair enough. I, personally, have a hard time believing people would belief in 2024 that men don't suffer from mental health issues, but I guess everything is possible.

About the calling out virtue signaling in an aggressive way, I agree, especially when the both sides don't really know each other and their individual history regarding a topic.

this is a pretty meaningfully clarifying acknowledgment, and that's sort of the impression i have as well. in particular, our histories of willingly occupying/spectating different communities with different philosophies and forms of speech, under which our understanding of terms would be largely shaped by those communities and what experiences are signified and referenced throughout, it's reasonably easy to imagine that these kinds of things become super unproductive on average :/

lostsilver wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

anyways who is making the pride month thread tomorrow

i will! if someone doesn't do it before me that is

go ahead ^^

Achromalia wrote:

lostsilver wrote:

Patatitta wrote:

anyways who is making the pride month thread tomorrow

i will! if someone doesn't do it before me that is

go ahead ^^

will do it tomorrow! <3 (probably featuring some art of my silly little hyperfixation characters :3)

Keep your mind healthy, fellow men.

Achromalia wrote:

xch00F wrote:

Ymir wrote:

virtue generator 9000 wrote:

This observance promotes awareness, education, and support for men

Let's be real it does almost none of that. These 'awareness' months achieve absolutely nothing and the main motive behind pushing this garbage is the free internet points that come packaged with their brief mention.

it also allows ppl to make cynical and bitter posts exactly like this decrying the intent of the "awareness month" in the first place. but you're also right, to an extent. this has ostensibly been a thing since the 1990s, but I never knew about it until recently. definitely never heard about this shit when I was in the military. I attempted suicide at my unit in 2009 and was sent to a program where we basically sat there for several hours to watch powerpoint presentations on why killing yourself was bad for morale and not, you know, bad for you. and the moral judgement of suicide varied wildly. I never deployed, I was a 19 year old experiencing severe culture shock and being reminded of my shitty childhood, and because of that, my attempt to take my own life was never taken as seriously as the dudes who had deployed and saw combat and came back wanting to kill themself. even tho the end result in both situations was a literal dead man. I specifically stay away from my VA health resources because of these stigmas. I had the gall to call into the veteran suicide hotline one time and it ended up in cops breaking into my house, stealing my benzos, and putting me on a 5150, causing me to miss work. never doing that shit again.

you can't dismantle deeply-ingrained societal stigmas around men's mental health in the real world when the discussion about these stigmas primarily exist online. telling people to be aware that men suffer from mental health is a good thing imo but there is a significant difference in telling another man they matter thru text and telling another man they matter to their face. western cultures expect men to be disposable. telling a man they actually aren't disposable will force them to confront difficult ideas and some dudes simply do not want to do that. some dudes can't.

i sympathize more with this at face-value (there are several directions this sentiment can take from there onward)

that, and i'm usually hesitant to accept cynical derision/dismissal of sociologically-relevant phenomena in general. maybe it's a misnomer to identify these critiques as necessarily "cynical"? but that reads more as a matter of us not being able to read each other's intent, and only being able infer it until the explicit motive is revealed for that contextual frame of underlying beliefs and experiences

in this instance I think I was on point deriding their post as cynical
they did end up showing that they were unaware of certain aspects of men's mental health after all
about 3 years ago a male coworker walked into my office on the verge of tears because of a phone call he had just received about his mother. my immediate reaction was to pull him in for a hug. if I had done this to one of my peers in the military I would have gotten the shit kicked out of me for being an f-slur (again lol). something is being done for sure, you don't rly need to define what that something is in concrete terms as long as you know something is there.

Achromalia wrote:

Ymir wrote:

virtue generator 9000 wrote:

This observance promotes awareness, education, and support for men

Let's be real it does almost none of that. These 'awareness' months achieve absolutely nothing and the main motive behind pushing this garbage is the free internet points that come packaged with their brief mention.

^ something like this. it's pretty apparent that many people do take this in earnest, but i'm sure it can be argued that at least some not-insignificant portion of it is performative, in magnifying emotive affect if little else. even acknowledging the substantive population of people that evidently care (surely in sentiment, but to what effect, in what form, to what end?), this doesn't... really seem meaningfully substantive for what its supposed mission is, but that seems genuinely like a matter of not Doing Anything with it or taking time to curate an environment for that (and in attempting this, it'd still be likely ineffective if mediated through some kind of catch-all generalized method, given that the mental health of men will be conditioned some way or another by far too vast a variety of distinct causes and particular contexts), rather than a wholly misplaced sentiment imo

maybe more intuitively, humans are human? we fundamentally think in definitively different frames, we generally feel and regulate/release feeling, and then do it sloppily or obliviously or ignorantly. many of us are hardly aware of our own fault points or what rationale could meaningfully apply in order to convince us and compel change from us. attempts from others to psychoanalyze us will sometimes be projections, or will be shallow and misdirected, or something else. attempts from others to identify sociological phenomena will not be thoroughly comprehensive or meaningfully compelling enough to unify others, when there are hundreds of thousands of frameworks to interpret each other with. hard to imagine a Day of Observance working quite too well, unless it's something people mostly-uniformly experience or understand, relatively unmuddled by idiosyncratic conception

surely there's a counterpoint to my impressions somewhere, it's just not immediately apparent to me yet

Patatitta wrote:

make a thread playing on pride month

the femboy gets horny anyway

the pride month haters still hate regardless

successful thread

real <333

I ain’t readin allat brah 😭🙏

i want june reserved for a better thing
gay month is too gay and men month is too manly

Egypt wrote:

I can't read allat brah 😭🙏

Damn Brah Sucks To Suck 👽🍆😩

Ymir wrote:

virtue generator 9000 wrote:

This observance promotes awareness, education, and support for men

Let's be real it does almost none of that. These 'awareness' months achieve absolutely nothing and the main motive behind pushing this garbage is the free internet points that come packaged with their brief mention.

nah its just to make you feel better with yourself, without achieving anything really. its cool, its chill.

Wimpy Cursed wrote:

men

roufou wrote:

men men boys

awareness months are important but i agree that they don't solve systemic issues and is more or less purely performative in nature. That said, awareness of these issues even if they aren't remedies is better than not drawing awareness to them at all.

Winnyace wrote:

xch00F wrote:

telling people to be aware that men suffer from mental health is a good thing imo

100% agree. Here's my question: why the fuck did we need to say this in the first place? Are some people this mentally limited to believe men, in general, don't suffer from mental issues?

Unfortunately yes

xch00F wrote:

Egypt wrote:

I can't read allat brah 😭🙏

Damn Brah Sucks To Suck 👽🍆😩

I ain’t readin allat brah 😭☠️☠️

Egypt wrote:

xch00F wrote:

Egypt wrote:

I can't read allat brah 😭🙏

Damn Brah Sucks To Suck 👽🍆😩

I ain’t readin allat brah 😭☠️☠️

I vomit.

Polyspora wrote:

Egypt wrote:

xch00F wrote:

Egypt wrote:

I can't read allat brah 😭🙏

Damn Brah Sucks To Suck 👽🍆😩

I ain’t readin allat brah 😭☠️☠️

I vomit.

huh?

Egypt wrote:

Polyspora wrote:

Egypt wrote:

xch00F wrote:

Egypt wrote:

I can't read allat brah 😭🙏

Damn Brah Sucks To Suck 👽🍆😩

I ain’t readin allat brah 😭☠️☠️

I vomit.

huh?

he vomitted

that’s crazy

Jangsoodlor wrote:

Egypt wrote:

Polyspora wrote:

Egypt wrote:

xch00F wrote:

Egypt wrote:

I can't read allat brah 😭🙏

Damn Brah Sucks To Suck 👽🍆😩

I ain’t readin allat brah 😭☠️☠️

I vomit.

huh?

he vomitted

That’s crazy

woah


in all seriousness though i hope you all are doing great this month

Darknn wrote:

woah


in all seriousness though i hope you all are doing great this month

seo rizz

Thanks for posting this!

I feel as if moving forward is impossible and my daily tasks are mundane. The ever-escaping goal of success and passion are not longer obtainable by even sake of my mind. I feel mostly nothing but emptiness and solitude anymore.