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To the Others

I feel like through no fault of our own as individual men, the playing field has become too one-sided in our favor. So as a man, I have two options. I can either accept that, or I can do something to possibly level the playing field. I have chosen option B: to make it my purpose to be a vessel to save women. Sometimes it’s to save them from themselves; sometimes it’s to save them from some of us.

Unfortunately, to some men, that has come across as me “not giving good men credit” or me “uplifting women at the expense of men.” If you feel that way, then I apologize. But at the end of the day, I don’t think I’ve ever said anything that specifically targeted men as a whole. I feel like I do target a certain type of man, though, I’ll admit that. I am hard on the type of man who doesn’t necessarily value women as much as I do, which in turn makes them feel a certain kind of way. To them, the ones who take issue with what I do simply because it raises a woman’s bar to some new height, women who may subsequently remove these men from their lives? To those men, my response is, “Sorry. Not sorry.”

Nothing makes me happier as an artist and as a man than seeing the looks on women’s faces when they read my poems, when they read my posts, and when they tell me that what I wrote was the reason they “got better.”

It makes them happy, it makes me happy, and we’re not bothering you.