When you want that drink so bad but...

#matcha #latte #masculinity #masculinité

Toxic Masculinity At Its Worst: This Man’s Body Has A Penis And Testicles Hanging Right Off Of It

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://clickhole.com/toxic-masculinity-at-its-worst-this-mans-body-has-a-penis-and-testicles-hanging-right-off-of-it/

#Looksmaxxing #BBC #News #Health #ToxicMasculinity #Masculinity #Weird
The irony. He aims to be at the apex of an “ultra-masculine subculture” by “rubbing his face with a frozen cucumber to reduce puffiness…”
Sorry mate, society has become ridiculously image obsessed, and this is so wrong on every possible level…

Sculpting jaws, giving scores: Inside the world of looksmaxxing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx28z4zypkno

Andrea Pitzer on the crisis of "masculinity" in a changing world.

"Next Comes What", episode "The Most Divorced Men in History".

Here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-tamdb-2be3e1b1

#podcast #whatcomesnext #fascism #masculinity

Came to this post by My Voice My Choice for the Connor Storrie photos, then stayed for the messages, which are not about him per se, but in general about what makes a man really attractive.

I’ll put the messages from the post here in two toots.

"When he calls out white supremacy, fascism and misogyny.
When he refuses to normalize the „locker room talk“.
When he educates other men about toxic masculinity and gender-based violence."

1/2

#feminism #men #connorstorrie #masculinity

This is an interesting post about a "discussion" the author had with AI about what the world would look like if men wearing women's clothes became just as commonplace as women wearing men's.

#gender #meninskirts #menindresses #meninheels #masculinity

https://www.the-beskirted-man.com/in-the-media/when-men-dressing-like-women-stops-mattering/

Just wrote this elsewhere about a Zach Bryan song, Heavy Eyes. I was searching for discussion of this song and all I saw was watered-down slop like "it's about the exuberance of youth and the zany hijinks we all get up to with our high school friends..."

NO. It's about #masculinity, #youth, forgotten #rural cultures, and absolutely about death. It kicks ass, makes me want to drive faster and... line dance, maybe? But it's about #death.

I'll change my mind (maybe) if Zach himself tells me (fat chance I'd ever meet him), but here's what I wrote.

No idea if it's literal or about an actual person, but I am relatively sure it's about a kid (or more than one) who died far too young from doing stupid kid stuff that cowboy kids in the plains do. They're walking staggered, vision blurred; who's going to drive them home? Well, they are. The boys back home live for things like Dead Man's Curve. I think this is an homage and maybe eulogy for one of the boys who lived for Dead Man's Curve and who was walking staggered, vision blurred. He got behind the wheel and died. Maybe he took some of his friends with him.

The climax of the song is when the person Zach is singing about says "I can't take this soul with me / If I go I'm going quickly."

Heavy eyes can be sleepy. They can be serious and cynical. They can be drunk. They can also be dead. I think that boy (whether real or imagined) died and this is a song celebrating his short life and his violent death. It's a song about youth forgotten in farm and ranch towns, especially the boys and men, compelled to do daredevil shit, laugh in the face of death, etc. If you roll those dice enough times, the odds go way up that you'll lose. I think that boy lost.

Once I got this idea of what the song means, it made more sense: the jagged, unhinged pace, the slightly chaotic guitar, the drums that never pause in their frenetic drive, even in the few seconds literally singing about dying, the celebratory tone that is always a split second away from being a wail of grief.

I love this song and am in awe of Bryan for writing it and performing it like he does. It sounds like every cowboy kid I knew growing up in Montana, Arizona, and Utah. It sounds like the kids who died in drunken car crashes back then--at least a few when I was in middle school and high school, doing the only things they could, in these towns with no teenage entertainment beyond "doing stupid shit", to show their fearlessness and lust for life. It sounds like the tone of the school when those deaths were announced on the PA system: somber (because death), but also constantly recognizing that the adults just didn't get it.

I wasn't one of those kids. Most of those kids were fucking assholes. They were often bullies. A few of them were the best kids, though. And all of them were at risk, every day, of being killed by the culture their parents and grandparents refused to ever even look at carefully.

https://youtu.be/gteDFiG4gCA

#music #country #ZachBryan #death #youth #adolescence #alcohol #youGotItWrong #FuckingListen