why is everyone so weird about masculinity?

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• CE

  @cerwile1 · 2 weeks ago

  You cannot be a good man if you're not a good person first, and if you're a good person already, who cares if youre a good man?

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• KM

  @kmoonracer · 2 weeks ago

  Being a good man or a good woman both start with being a good person. Which is something anyone insisting on forcing other people into a rigid stereotype are failing spectacularly. <br><br>Forcing someone else to fit a box you decided to put them in is inhuman. Especially if that box is as bull*<b>*</b> as gender is.

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• IT

  @ItsChloeBee · 11 days ago

  As a trans woman I HATED the expectations I was supposed to follow as a man. And now that I&apos;m out of it, I see my cishet friends who are still trapped in it and it&apos;s very frustrating! For me, I personally really like aligning myself with traditional feminine archetypes, but that&apos;s a CHOICE I make and not something I want to be forced into.

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• SA

  @Sara3346 · 2 weeks ago

  Those paws are cool as heck!!!

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• MO

  @moth-bz6fd · 11 days ago

  Im so glad i was never socially there enough to figure out that i was supposed to be a certain way.

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• HO

  @howwasthisnottakenyet · 2 weeks ago

  Thats the thing about masculinity sometimes, its so frustrating how fragile it is, to the point where things like &quot;feeling emasculated&quot; exists (among other examples for &quot;feeling not manly (enough)&quot;), like shouldn&apos;t someone&apos;s masculinity just be within themselves? Like be the way they exist and they&apos;re comfortable and confident in?<br><br>Idk I guess I do understand it when you&apos;re told all these ways to be, so then it can be frustrating or confusing. But idk I feel like thats the kinda thing where you gotta take a step back and look at the bigger picture

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• ME

  @mechanophiliac · 2 weeks ago

  close enough, hello irl Goob Dandy&apos;s World

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• SA

  @Sara3346 · 11 days ago

  I think if you need to harm people to feel like yourself maybe you aren&apos;t being genuine to yourself to begin with?😅

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• SA

  @Sara3346 · 11 days ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stIlb-e0PX4&amp;t=240">4:00</a> A lot of this sillyness got started with something called Man The Hunter conference.<br><br>There&apos;s a decent mindoc here on youtube called &quot;You&apos;re wrong about cavewomen&quot; that goes into way more detail about this unfounded rhetoric about the ancestral environment.

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• AK

  @akibatube335 · 2 weeks ago

  Good question. Why <b>is</b> a fantastical Western minority so weird about masculinity?<br><i>&quot;With the introduction of basic societal structure, things start taking a turn for the worse.&quot;</i><br>Well, that&apos;s that then... Onto more of lifes crippling dilemmas, like why is everyone so weird about cults?

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• ME

  @Megaplis · 9 days ago

  I hope someone writes a character that plays with this stereotype of macho man that wants to be friends with the chill happy buff guy and gets mogged by having all their insecurities destroyed in front of them

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• NE

  @neetvillage · 5 days ago

  ur exactly my favorite type of animal homie. deadass thank u so much 4 being urself, it&apos;s way way more difficult that we r taught in this nonhuman system!! ur a shining magic incredible star ur energy is NECESSARY SO THANK U!!!!!