The left is the only place that is safe to open up as a man.

The right is only safe if you fit a very specific definition of manliness, one that is unrealistic. However that illusion sends millions of the gullible and impressionable chasing after an unobtainable standard.

On the far-right you'll get punched if you like making caramel and baking cakes. The close right just calls you a slur instead.

There are few things more alienating to the wide range of male expression than the right wing.

I grew up as a conservative and was never accepted. Opening up, being emotionally vulnerable, expressing "feminine" (ie non traditional) interests: every time it lost me any sort of male friendship. I was excluded, mocked and called homophobic slurs.

I'm a cisgender straight white man but because I was a square peg to their traditional round hole I was an outcast.

The right is the cause of male depression and loneliness. It enforces the gender norms that make men feel they have to be a rock, provide for family, die for their country, shut up about their feelings.

The only safe place for men to open up is on the left.