Men Feeling Unloved is Dangerous
There’s a proxy war being fought in comment sections all over the world, or at least in America, over Klay Thompson and Meg the Stallion. Now, being from Houston and being an avid sports fan, I’ve seen both of these people from the literal beginning. I watched Klay get drafted to the Warriors and become one of the best shooters of all time, a 4-time World Champion, and write his name into history books. I watched Meg use social media and YouTube, freestyle outside gas stations and in cars, and build her career into what it is now.
That means I can’t relate to people on either side who say they didn’t know Klay until he started dating Meg, or they didn’t know Meg until she started dating Klay. I knew them both and saw them both work their way to stardom in their particular fields. What I’ve seen in the past couple of days is people making a lot of assumptions, and the main thing I see is people using their experiences or insecurities to talk about two people they don’t know.
What we do know is this. Meg posted on Instagram that she and Klay had broken up because he didn’t know if he could be monogamous. This opened the floodgates to dialogue about everything from Meg’s past to whether Klay was using her to what certain women deserve. I’m not the type of writer who is going to do a deep dive on a celebrity relationship; instead, I want to talk about how people are using these two to vent about their own frustrations.
There is a generation of men who have access to women they should never have had access to, and they resent them for it. Let me say that again, because of dating apps and social media, there is a generation of men who have a direct line to women they shouldn’t have access to, and this rots the mind… Read the rest on Author D. White’s Substack.
