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It's annoying to have to wonder whether whoever started men's health month did it just to be all "but what about this other issue?" and intentionally move attention away from pride. Issues of men's rights and health are extremely important to me, and I hate how often they're brought up in bad faith by misogynists and other hateful people.
Totally bad faith. Mental health awareness month is May. It's non-gendered but it's been May since 1949.
Source: NAMI. The National Alliance on Mental Health. I support them financially.
Is that true that it was done in bad faith?
Because it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. A pretty big portion of people that celebrate pride.... Are men. (And as a slight tangent, let me just say that pride is amazing for your all-over health)
Of course it was. There's a subsection of people who want to divide the folks who believe in things like men's mental health, and also pride. You can do both. You should do both. Trying to move mental health month to overlap with pride is agitprop. Trying to make this a pride versus men issue, or a mental health versus men's mental health issue, is coordinated nonsense. Don't let them do that to you.
Advocate for mental health, and men's mental health, every day. Celebrate mental health month, and include your male friends, like I do. But don't let someone try and define men's mental health specifically to overlap with something else, something that right-wing, manosphere assholes will tell you is bad.
Edited to add: I think part of the problem is that folks don't seem to keep these things in their calendars or in their minds, and just react to 'whatever month' when they see image macros. Next year I'll try and post memes about mental health awareness month during May. I'm not as good at advocating online as I am in person- I usually use the internet to unwind and shitpost and pick fights when my meds wear off. I'll try and do better.
If you want to make men's health a whole month, it's probably not a good idea to make it completely overlap with another prominent health-themed month. Not that June is any better.
It's inevitable though, there are so many issues and only twelve months.
If ya'll aren't emphasizing men's mental health, which is friggin epidemic, during the mental health month, it's being done wrong.
Let's be real, I don't remember seeing any 'mental health month' posts in May.
I find it ironic that mental health awareness month happens during one of the most hectic months of the year for many people.
I got to be honest, that really bums me out.
I'm a person with C-PTSD who volunteers with local veterans. I really hammered home mental health awareness month. I mean, I talk about it all the time, but NAMI does some cool stuff during May. I even recall seeing some busses that had NAMI wraps on them talking about it in May!
Eta: I said elsewhere, and I'm saying it again (hope it sinks in), next May I'll try and generate content and memes and stuff. Hearing that some of you didn't see or hear anything during May has really had a massive dampening effect on my day. Ya'll deserve outreach, same as everyone in my meatspace.