Human GhostwriterIt's time to retire masculinity. If it had any utility, we have outlived it. I'm gonna take my dick and my beard and do whatever I want forever.
"That's not masculine!" Who fucking cares? Leave me alone.
DJDarren@HG The older I get, the less I understand what masculinity means, or what purpose it serves.
It's such a caricature. Like, sure, Rambo hip firing two machine guns at skeleton dinosaurs while riding on a rocket-powered skateboard and sporting a comically oversized erection sounds funny for a second, but to then take that and say "this will be my entire life and the foundation for a lifelong hatred of women" is clown behavior.
Isaac Freeman@HG This is where I always barge into conversation with a wild-eyed look and bang a copy of Susan Faludi's _Stiffed_ onto the table saying “There's more than one masculinity! That's just the bullshit individualist neoliberal one! There's a better masculinity with like dignity and mentorship and solidarity and socialism! It doesn't even have to feel threatened by feminism!”
I think I am OK ultimately rejecting all types of prescriptive rubrics for my behaviors and preferences. I would rather not trade one set of rules for a slightly more palatable set. I want my life to resemble Calvinball.