Maybe it’s not all men and using such generic language is akin to saying, “maybe the gays should stop being so flamboiyant if they want acceptance”?
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NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 21 hours agoWhat is the source of these issues?
Maybe men should stop being so shitty to men, but more so they should definitely stop being so hostile and abusive to women.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 21 hours ago
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Nice dog whistle.
Where did I say “all men?” Is it not entirely possible that these are all issues caused explicitly by men while there is also a conscious awareness from other men who are aware of and trying to address the issue? Men are the issue, or more accurately the concept of obligate masculinity is, but guess what demographic is enforcing that mindset?
Hint: not women, and if you think it is then you don’t listen to women nor men.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
Women police the patriarchy plenty.
My experience from square straight married life is that women want men in general to be gentle and kind and whatnot, but they want their own husband to be capable of violence.
At least that was my wife, there were aspects of toxic masculinity that she absolutely encouraged.
Like, one time I got on a busy train with her and another guy got scared of me and left his seat. She sat down and smiled and patted my hand and said “that’s respect right there baby”
And I totally understand the desire to have sex with a big strong not too bright dominant guy, trust me I get it.
It’s not just SOs, mothers often play a huge part in conditioning men for the patriarchy, calling them little soldiers, telling them not to cry, to fight back at the bully at school, etc.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
So, because women also have the ability to subjectively be shitty people and internalize misogyny that means no men are to blame for the outlined issues?
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Not a dog whistle. I’m most likely more progressive than you, but you keep trying to feel superior to others! That’s definitely not a part of the problem!
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Do… do you not see the irony in what you just wrote? Read it back to yourself.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Thats not a dog whistle
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I see you’re having a great time with this post.
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
You’re wrong
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
That would imply it’s the gay community itself that is not accepting flamboyant gays…
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
The gay community is not uniformly homogeneous. There are plenty of gay men who aren’t big fans of flamboyant queer culture.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
“Aren’t big fans” is not the same as being bigoted, or discriminating against…
Do think there are some Lincoln Republic gays out their thinking Tommy is going to hell, not because he’s queer, but because he sashays too hard?
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Shhhh they wanna use a big paint brush, it supports their argument
ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
I’m sure all the male homicide victims would be really glad they weren’t killed by women because then they would have lost their privilege…
I really hate this reasoning I see sometimes that because men hurt other men we don’t need to care about those victims. We can just dismiss them and assume they still have all their male privilege because a smaller number of women are also victims. How about we stop framing all this stuff as men vs women and who has it better and instead focus on the actual problems and the actual victims regardless of their gender expression?
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
You’re really good at not understanding systemic socio psychology issues.
ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Maybe you’re just too focused on a single way of categorising people
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Sure.