"waaahh its hard growing up a boy" motherfucker its hard growing up as anyone, anywhere, but growing up a white boy is the easiest character roll you can get. the manliest thing you can do is shut the fuck up and learn to be nice to people?
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basically like getting 18s across the board, no locked skills, all prestige/sub-classes unlocked from the start. Still the highest number of fumbles ever recorded.
While it was corny at the time the golfwang mid-10s era type SoundCloud teen boy is vastly preferable to the Andrew Tate model. Mfs were bonding over Wes Anderson, not white supremacy ffs
"we have a masculinity crisis" no we have a white person crisis, same as we've always had, some of manliest dudes out there are saying 'trans rights' and just living their lives while every manosphere guy looks like he was born already stuffed into a locker
coddling these babies is essentially excusing an onramp to fascism, their imagined persecution, completely divorced from reality, is the same we see from adults on the right. stop being nice to them, stop saying "aww, we need to understand them"!
As a schoolteacher, it felt like we were finally rounding a corner on bullying. Kids calling out, not being bystanders, feeling bad about being a dick. Then they decided to piss on it. We get to be bullies or it's oppression. "Boys being boys" is a cancer on society.
Was talking with my wife about this a bit last night. When women talk about the things that make being a woman hard, I think "wow, that would suck/be annoying."
When a man tells me how hard being a man is, i can't help but feel like they're just a loser baby.
that's the stuff that rly grinds me as a trans man, like I don't doubt there are difficulties cis boys face growing up, but idk I feel like it pales in comparison to my reality as a trans man, dealing with the realization I'm a man, while also facing violent misogyny, mostly from cis boys around me.
like idk, if I had to deal with being a boy growing up while also getting relentlessly bullied & sexually harassed by basically everyone, and come outta that with love in my heart for the world, I think cis men could stand to practice a bit of humility & step out of their manosphere comfort zones.
it's part of the trap I think.
Toxic masculinity comes with all these impossible standards for straight men & a huge part of it is hating queerness & femininity.
Queer men & other LGBTQ+ people already had to come to terms with BEING those things. They can't wrap their minds around it.
We're out here talking about our feelings, being vulnerable, building lasting relationships with people based on genuine connection;
& toxic masc manosphere men are absolutely miserable, emotionally pent up, chronic materialists trying to show off to their "friends" while treating women like toys.
The best thing that a person can do for the world is to simply get rid of all that femininity/masculinity bullshit, the obsession with matching the status quo. No man is as masculine as they pretend to be, no woman is as feminine as they pretend to be. Just be a normal and nice person. And above all
else, don't shame others for not matching up with what you think they should be. I'm personally more feminine than masculine, because a lot of traits associated with being a half decent person are linked to femininity. The people that need to read this never will, but it'll be here forever.
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When a man tells me how hard being a man is, i can't help but feel like they're just a loser baby.
Who can say who is right!
Toxic masculinity comes with all these impossible standards for straight men & a huge part of it is hating queerness & femininity.
Queer men & other LGBTQ+ people already had to come to terms with BEING those things. They can't wrap their minds around it.
& toxic masc manosphere men are absolutely miserable, emotionally pent up, chronic materialists trying to show off to their "friends" while treating women like toys.