Since this community exists, I want to talk about the importance of being able to take care of yourself as a man. I think it's essential that a man can take care of himself and of his space. How can a man completely love himself if he can't care for his home and basic needs? These are basic things about ourselves as humans that aren't taken care of in situations of depression or worse. In this case, it's as if the majority of men were in a situation of depression if he can't have a woman to take care of everything for him.

This needs to be addressed. Men should be able to take care of themselves by means of being able to take care of his home and his space. Kids, male and female, should be taught about this. It's a lesson of self-care, productivity and ableness to fulfill a whole life without overdepending on others. It's also a move for resistance against the organized society that are forcibly fed onto us as humans.

Trans men are men.

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Robert and Miles talk about the mid-century crisis in American masculinity and then catch up to the modern era, and Gamergate.

Robert sits down with Miles Gray to give a history of American Masculinity Grifters, and the media-created fears of a 'crisis' in masculinity.

Long form article includes descriptions of proto-Nazi constructions of parenting and masculinity, as well as the destructive post-fascist counter-reaction, and finally a survivor's story of re-connecting with his emotional self.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/42164737

There’s a sexual ideology that holds all of these concepts together in a single place: the idea that you can celebrate Hawk Tuah girl and use her catchphrase to degrade a female politician; the idea that a starlet in a low-cut dress is yours to objectify, while contraception and sexual education are dangerous and probably immoral and should be restricted.

It harks back to the idea that was dominant in the Bush era, a moment when our culture was capable of prizing Girls Gone Wild and purity balls in equal measure, when pop stars like Britney Spears were expected to serve their audiences sex on a platter while avowing their virginity at the same time. It’s the ideology that unites Republican raunch and purity culture, that makes them two sides of the same coin: one based on the idea that women’s sexuality should exist in the service of men. The right once again championing this brand of bawdiness while working relentlessly to restrict women’s autonomy and denigrating the women they don’t like isn’t a departure. It’s a return to form.