🦊 OneRedFox 🦊Jul 31, 2023

Against Masculinity

https://beehaw.org/post/6895867

Against Masculinity - Beehaw

It’s perfectly fine to be a “feminine” man. Young men do not need a vision of “positive masculinity.” They need what everyone else needs: to be a good person who has a satisfying, meaningful life.

Show threadkelvinjpsJul 31, 2023
I think that there is positive masculinity and there is nothing wrong with a positive masculinity. I find some stoics as my role model. for example Marcus, and also I used to find a lot of help from the Enquiridion from Epictetus . For example Marcus Aurelius was all about compassion.
Show threadSpimbleJul 31, 2023
Is there anything inherently male about positive masculinity? Is it just a person with positive traits that happens to be male or are the traits themselves masculine?
Show threadrunarskoll

I think the generally accepted rule of thumb is: if it’s bad, it’s male generated. If it’s good, it’s only human and could have an origin in any gender (but mostly female). So, no…only negative masculinity can be attributed to males. Positive masculinity is just another thing that got under the umbrella of “females can have that too”.

I was going with an /s but decided no to use it, because somehow this is the insane state of affairs we got in 2023.

Jul 31, 2023 at 9:43pmWeb