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In reply to the discussion: I learned something today about toxic masculinity. [View all]mucholderthandirt
(1,254 posts)121. Thank you for this:
Stop putting this on women. We already have burdens enough to carry, thanks very much. It's like telling black people they need to stop doing X (mostly X translates into being 'uppity') so that white people will be nicer to them and 'give' them rights that they deserve to have, period.
But thanks for the mansplaining. What is a day ending in Y without it?
Why does anyone have to show men how to be positive? Can't they see it all around them? Can't they figure out it's pretty much the opposite of the MAGA cult? Of brutal men, of men who want to control women? Good gods, it's not that hard to figure out!
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They were the men supporting Sanders but just could not get themselves to support HRC
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#35
So, Dems coddle make ego so they feel secure in masculinity in order to get their vote even IF
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#112
Yes. Bottom line. Yes. this is what it is and we are having none of it. Old, tired, done!!!
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#61
Operationalizing positive masculinity: a theoretical synthesis and school-based framework to engage boys and young men
Celerity
Aug 2024
#48
He wants men to have their own adjectives that are special to only men, that women do not have.
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#113
Exactly and women are clever enough having expoerienced men defining us... always
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#36
That it is even being needed to be said they are not emasculated voting for a woman, and a black one at that
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#51
How is that an iota bit of difference from femininity? I suppose next we will say strong
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#26
your question: What would a leftist vision of positive masculinity look like?
Attilatheblond
Aug 2024
#29
You left off Pete and Chasten Buttigieg. They're masculine and not toxically so. n/t
dobleremolque
Aug 2024
#73
wasn't going personal names, but I agree with you. Those two men are top notch masculine and real mensch types.
Attilatheblond
Aug 2024
#82
I feel like this idea falls into the trap of the right's idea of forming a preception of what a man and what a woman
Claustrum
Aug 2024
#34
Here is another I just LOVE.... We call our little two year olds, little men. Dad leaves the house
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#41
Isn't it just so fuckin stupid and men take it so seriously, and I am all like.... NO!!!!
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#52
Except that is women too. I guess they need to find adjectives that ONLY define them and to that,
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#54
As David French points out, the GOP go with the low and vulgar and violent as "masculine"--
viva la
Aug 2024
#65
Men are more logical than women? Where did my logic go. I always had such an abundance.
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#72
I think if you will google are men more logical you will find a lot of data to contradict
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#84
Role models on the left are everywhere, there is Biden, Obama, and Walz and many many more.
Bev54
Aug 2024
#74
No... They say leader, strong, protector, integrity ect.... they just IGNORE that women
LizBeth
Aug 2024
#100
Why do you feel that reverting to gender stereotyping is necessary to win this election??
Think. Again.
Aug 2024
#101
It's impossible for a man to answer this question without being accused of "mansplaining."
PeaceWave
Aug 2024
#107