Nowhere GirlMay 26, 2023

There isn't a "crisis in masculinity."

There are just guys who can't cope with there being any standards or expectations for their behavior at all after being told they could literally do whatever they wanted and treat people like property.

There's a reason every proposed "solution" is misogynist as hell and involves forcing women into a social position where their lives, bodies, and livelihoods are entirely controlled by men.

Because these men are pigs and want to live life on easy mode.

Show threadNowhere GirlMay 26, 2023
It's true men are also victims of toxic masculinity and accompanying social expectations, but that's a problem men have to solve for themselves as they are also toxic masculinity's primary enforcers.
Show threadFrancesco Orsenigo (he/him)

@gwynnion Thank you for writing this.

Without diminishing how much worse the patriarchy is for women (and children and LGBT+ people) I wish more men realized that this is a very bad deal for us too.

Not because it is a necessary motivation (it really shouldn't be!) but because it is, IMHO, an important piece of the puzzle to understanding how oppression requires to divide people.

No one is free until everyone is free.

May 27, 2023 at 10:36amWeb
Show threadTransitBikerMay 28, 2023
@xarvh @gwynnion that construct of “protector, breadwinner, capable in all situations, get the girl, look good or you’re a failure as a person” is just… no. Needs to end. Building a society full of individuals without swaps of generalisations and stereotypes is so urgently needed.