In a way, this is can be called a followed up to my last blog, but it really wasn’t meant to be one. I was inspired by watching a documentary, go figure. It was called After Parkland and it was on Hulu, and like the other documentary, I also cried a lot.
I’ve been watching a lot of different documentaries lately, and they really make you think. A lot of them have been about crime, but a good bit has been about social issues and the government. They have been very interesting to say the very least. My generation Millenials and in an extension Gen Z have been through a lot throughout our lifetime.
On my friends list fairly recently a few of the people on my friends list mostly old Navy contacts and some from my hometown (So, it’s no surprise) have been criticizing toxic masculinity. The general consensus is that they feel like it’s an attack on men, which is very untrue of course, and anyone who can read a definition would be able to easily understand that. These are all people that I have unfollowed on facebook because I don’t need the stress, ignorance, or that in my life, so for a month or two I haven’t seen those post in my feed, hallelujah. The bigs critics are those who don’t even know what it is and to be honest I just don’t get it.
I think one of the worst things about having a friendly personality is that people for some reason equal friendliness to flirting. This happened a lot when I worked at the convenience store, and the sad part I was literally paid to be nice to people, and it’s against the rules to flirt anyway. For some reason, a lot of people think it’s because the world is an unfriendly place and that being nice is somehow rare, and that is an excuse that people use, and I don’t think that is true. A lot of people are nice in this world and it’s not rare, this also makes it sound like women are only nice to men that they are attracted to, which to me is a really gross statement.