• Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 days ago

    The way I see it, they’re literally trying to affirm their genders. They’re insecure about if they’re really men or not, so they have to go by ‘alpha male’ so that everyone knows that they’re not just regular males but the full roast brand. Men+. It’s their version of a pronouns pin.

    They also occasionally partake in other forms of gender affirming care like shaving their eyelashes because eyelashes are for girls. And getting together and going “ew girls” over Captain Marvel and other good looking women in tight fitting superhero spandex, in between praising how swole Joe Rogan is looking. These are things that make them feel like manly men.

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      14 days ago

      And getting together and going “ew girls” over Captain Marvel and other good looking women in tight fitting superhero spandex, in between praising how swole Joe Rogan is looking. These are things that make them feel like manly men.

      This is the part that’s absolutely wild to me, next to the notion that it’s “gay” for a man to want to please his partner during sex. More and more often now my wife tells me how lucky she is, not just for that, but moreover because I actually love her and see her as my partner rather than treat her like the help. Man, I almost lost her because I took her for granted, not out of malice—because I believed I was doing the right thing—but just out of thoughtlessness, and I cannot let that happen again. She makes me want to be a better person, for her, for our daughter, for the people, and it’s not out of some weird sense of religious patriarchy, it’s for its own sake. I am what I am due in no small part to her, and that’s the way it should be.

      These hogs are seriously, alarmingly losing the plot over what it is to be masculine, and then shoving some twisted version of “gender” into traits and other concepts where it does not belong, full stop. There is a dangerous lack of understanding here.

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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      12 days ago

      they’re literally trying to affirm their genders

      oh that’s funny. My school has a ton of those ‘lifted truck fboys’™️ and I’m gonna use it on one of them the next time they pipe up about my jewelry