the only people making the world confusing for teenage boys are adult men who are telling them that the world they inhabit is broken and has turned against them because people’s values have evolved in the ~30 years that they’ve ceased to be teenagers and they no longer feel in control - ThreadSky

self.agency • 14 days ago

the only people making the world confusing for teenage boys are adult men who are telling them that the world they inhabit is broken and has turned against them because people’s values have evolved in the ~30 years that they’ve ceased to be teenagers and they no longer feel in control

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self.agency•14 days ago

i’m sorry it’s no longer cool to brag about date rape and punch your friend while calling him a fag but that doesn’t mean the world is hostile to boys

self.agency•14 days ago

my toughest, machoest high school friend, who lived to fuck and fight, turned out to be a trans woman. the world didn’t get harder for boys, it got easier for everyone to be themselves without fear and overcompensation. you’re jealous you didn’t get that chance and want to ruin it for those who do.

self.agency•14 days ago

sorry you had to conform to a gender prison that immiserated and traumatized you but that doesn’t mean you have to force your kids to do so as well

self.agency•14 days ago

here is a low poly appliance deliveryman/installer in 1985 expressing his jealousy towards a gender nonconforming rock musician for pulling down more money and ass than him. all that has changed is that the low poly man now whines infinitely more while asking for state intervention.

self.agency•14 days ago

(the slurs have been edited out of that version)

frogsoblivious.bsky.social•14 days ago

Dang I genuinely forgot there were, even though i love that song and dire straits. I think i must mentally block it out each time I listen

bobsyouruncle.bsky.social•14 days ago

This

ok-sure.bsky.social•14 days ago

Every word of this.

It also seems to me that we’re *all* insecure and afraid because of real things (rampant inequality; oligarchy; climate change) but the real things are too big & scary & beyond our individual control

So rugged individualists have to sublimate that fear into some kinda bullshit

ok-sure.bsky.social•14 days ago

And make it all about something they can feel in control of (ie, oppressing people, victimizing vulnerable groups, asserting dominance in their lonely little personal lives)

starrceline.bsky.social•13 days ago

ACCURATE.

fighterbot.bsky.social•13 days ago

Even back then all the blue collar-wannabe daddy’s boys I went to school with were fragile as fuck. Skateboarding and wearing girl jeans was a threat to them for some reason. Their tiny brains can’t understand leaving people the fuck alone.

esunaproxy.bsky.social•13 days ago

I don't understand the argument about trying to understand male alienation when it's really obvious and the answer is proper education and restricting access to misogynist manosphere types who poison the brains of children.

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