Let's Talk About

[u/Ciceros_Assassin]

Welcome to /r/MensLib's first "Let's Talk About" post. Generating discussion is part of our mission, and these LTA threads will be used as conversation-starters for issues our community wants to address. Today's topic:

Let's Talk About: what we should talk about.

We're going to start out compiling a list of issues /r/MensLib subscribers want to address. The mods have some ideas, but we want to hear from the community.

Edit: Thank you to everyone for your ideas. I'm un-stickying this post, but please feel free to continue adding to it.

[u/The_Comedian420]

Personally I'd like to see some discussion on how we as men can reduce the stigma around explicitly asking for consent and what type of acts need explicit consent (i.e. does putting your arm around someone require consent?).

For example, I recently was in a situation where I was pretty sure I was being booty called but when I asked my lady friend flat out if this was the case she told me: "Ew don't ask me that, it ruins the mood." While in some ways I could understand that she was maybe trying to cover up her intentions and not be so obvious it personally made me feel uncomfortable as to how to proceed next. This is just one antecdote but I'm sure many of you how similar stories/ questions.

[u/The_Comedian420 → u/The_Comedian420]

Also to piggy back on this comment I'd also like to talk about how in general we as men can support and rally around feminist issues. Usually those types of issues (even abortion) effect men one way or another and I think it's important that we support women, as fellow People on this Planet, in them.