Goddess is coming.

I see a shift away from patriarchy slowly but surely, and I think we are just getting started. I hear guys say asking "where are the men's safe spaces?" and I used to roll my eyes and say "well they just don't exist." Now I realize the reason they don't exist is because this is a patriarchal society and patriarchy wants men to express emotion, to be vulnerable, to seek support communally. I hope this is a good omen for where we are headed.<br><br>I recently moved to a new neighborhood and I was talking to a couple of guys in their 20s and they said they are living with their moms because they don't have a lot of money and this is the most cost effective solution. We talked about times when feminism was associated with fierce androgyny. I asked them if they had heard of this and if they thought it was still a thing, and they said "oh yeah we're all feminists" and one of them described "anti-feminist men" as having a "toxic mindset" and being undesirable. I asked how one would really know if a guy is anti-feminist, and he said by paying attention to his language and noticing inconsistencies between his words and actions. I brought up the term "gaslighting" and they knew what it was and described it in detail.<br><br>Yesterday I had a guy at work tell me that he doesn't watch porn, he finds that it's destructive to his relationships with women and that he also thinks it exploits women. He told me about asking a female friend why some women shave all of their pubic hair and she said "because of porn." He was disgusted by this answer and said that he doesn't watch porn and would never ask his partner to shave or wax her vagina. I was so touched by this, he was really thinking about how pornography affects women and how he treats women. <br><br>This is anecdotal, not a scientific analysis. I think men are slowly shifting away from patriarchy. I have never experienced such feminist conversations with men before.