@amydiehl when kiddo was little (bam), we were walking around our old neighborhood, and someone was having a garage sale, and they were selling a Barbie corvette. Kiddo wanted the corvette, who does not want a corvette? So I bought the corvette, and the woman didn’t want to sell it to me, because “you’re going to make him gay if you buy him this car.” And I said, that’s not how gay works, and I don’t care if he’s gay.” , and she said, my hand to god, “if my kid was gay I’d throw them out”, and her kids were standing right there. So I said, “well, they can live with me then, I got plenty of room.” And we drove off with the corvette.

Yeehawdists are weird, man. Weird.

@amydiehl

"It’s also unclear to us why girls’ responses to perceived threats to gender conformity may weaken with age"

that's because "male" is the top of the social hierarchy. a person, perceived as female, displays male tendencies that is still a net positive (moving up the social hierarchy). conversely, males displaying feminine tendencies are purposefully degrading their social standing and that is, to them, insane (moving down the social hierarchy).

@amydiehl well, very few media try to enlighten People with the beauty of a feminine side men aesthetic.

One of the few very popular medias I see doing that with absolutely no "sassy" or overall negative conotation is Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventures Mangá/Anime.

It did start as a major "big muscly male standard", but since the 4th part (1992), it started shifting The male characters beauty into a very femine aesthetic, without associating those characters as "weaklings" or futile.