feels like scribbly brain! feels like loud hot static between your ears! feels like misdirected pent up irritation, insecurity, and rage! i hate overly-masculine energy! i hate it! i literally cannot even stand my favorite foods that are spicy anymore because they have a similair energy. i fucking cannot stand that hyper masculine macho boomer fucking bullshit!! fuck!!! i jus wanna be a slinky cat, u feel? no gender, only slinky cat, no arguing, only slinky cat, no restricted freedoms-only slinky cat
I just finished watching Discovery Season One and I just realized that Michael Burnham follows pretty closely to the male action hero stereotype. The guy that's emotionally closed off, takes unnecessary risks, who ignores the rules, and uses aggression and violence to solve problems.
The stereotypical male action hero is usually the guy who's not in touch with his feelings, either stoic or a smart ass but not sensitive. Enter Michael, who's a human raised to be a cold, and logical Vulcan, essentially stoic, which is a hallmark of the idealized male hero.
There's also Michael the alpha male, who takes unnecessary risks, a Top Gun Maverick-type who will risk death just for a "flyby." Michael's contrast and foil is the beta male Saru, who's by-the-book, an insecure nerd, literally afraid of everything. Despite Saru's wise and cautious recommendations to avoid death and a possible potential confrontation with the Klingons, he's portrayed as the sissy who lacks courage, who's wrong most of the time, which is why he's not Captain material, but Michael is.
In order to "save everyone" Michael suggests a pre-emptive strike against a decloaked Klingon ship. The audience is told that Michael is actually right to attack the Klingons first because that's how the wise and logical Vulcan's "earned the respect" of Klingons: by attacking first, which became known as a "Vulcan Hello."
When the Captain says no to that crazy idea, Michael incapacitates his female captain in order take control of her ship and fire first, to save the Captain. Being the alpha, Michael knows better. Unfortunately, the female Captain regains consciousness and prevents the Shenzhou from firing first. By the Shenzhou and Starfleet remaining peaceful, the Klingons use it as an opportunity to attack first, which starts a battle between Starfleet and the Klingon Empire.
When Michael wants to communicate with Sarek on the astral plane, he refuses by punching Michael out of the astral plane. Michael comes back and fights him in a martial arts battle, in a successful attempt to make him talk. Star Trek has become an 80s action movie where the two good guys have to have a physical fight before they can talk to each other.
It's not just Michael Burnham either. Seven of Nine has pretty much become Dirty Harry or the Punisher. The hard drinking loner with a troubled past, who works outside the law to protect the innocent by punishing the guilty. Never mind that an alcoholic who suffers from PT
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It wasn't too long, maybe 10-15 minutes. The style felt like documentaries from the 70s where academics talk while it showed footage from the city and inside buildings. However, I think it was crafted in the 2000s maybe. It was a bit heady, not humorous.
The content was an exploration of the hypermasculinity of the artwork, with some of it focused on favor for pillars and phallic shapes, and other parts showing how murals were filled with men with rippling muscles. In contrast, it discussed how women and femininity were mostly absent from the artwork and shapes.
Any leads? It was fascinating and very well done.
I’ve been hearing a lot of people say “real men don’t hit women” or “real men don’t rape”. Feminists on twitter have condemned these phrases saying that real men do attack women and that they’re just as much of a man as a man who doesn’t attack women.
I don’t know exactly what these people mean by “real men”. Are they saying manly men don’t attack women? Are they saying only “feminine” men attack women? Because if that’s what they’re saying, they’re wrong. I think hypermasculinity, masculine stereotypes and tough guy culture DOES cause violence against women and I think some muscular “macho” man is more likely to beat up women than some “feminine” man who doesn’t care about being manly.
I’ve read research that men who conform to masculine stereotypes are more likely to be domestic abusers and that in hypermasculine environments like the military, sports, etc, domestic violence and sexual assault is more common. So I think men who are big or strong or “tough” are more likely to attack women.
I’ve done research on how masculine culture encourages this stuff and I think this explains why the word toxic masculinity exists. I don’t think tough guy culture deters violence against women. I think it encourages it.
This isn’t saying of course that you have to be violent to be macho or tough, but I still think the whole “be a man” thing in men causes violence against women, including rape and domestic violence.
Before watching Drag Race I considered transgender people and drag queens alike ‘undesirable.’ I told myself, “I would never date a drag queen!” It even bothered me when gay friends would affectionately call me ‘girl.’ Through the years and seasons, however, Drag Race has opened up my mind about gender, sex, and everything in between. As a gay man, I find it refreshing not to have to conform to the masculine and feminine societal spectrum. Being flamboyant is fun, even if that’s not your jush. Today, I find myself wholly embracing transgender people, dating drag queens, and just being totally gay. Has anyone experienced this? It’s crazy how marginalized groups have small pockets of members who cannibalize their own. I apologize for doing the same in the past. EVERYBODY SAY LOVE!
As a gay male, I love all things male and macho, especially when exaggeratedly so.
Things such as: Facial hair, deep baritone voices, broad shoulders, man-spreading, men in uniform, aggressive sexual behavior, manly grunts and groans, the hulk, a dude lifting weights, a garage full of workout equipment, truck drivers, men wearing tank tops for everyday wear, the rebellion guy, the cocky guy, looking angry/serious most of the time, taking control, being feisty, risk-taker, big steroid-like muscles, and so on and so forth... you get the point. But times it by 10-fold and it turns into hypermasculinity.
Holy fuck, my dick is instantly hard just typing all of this. I can't... contain it... any longer. Fucking sexually-appetizing as fuck.
Upon an initial viewing, Fight Club appears to hold extreme views against the present day’s overly consumerist culture and its resulting emasculation of men. The film seems to present hypermasculinity as the only solution to escaping the chains of modern consumerism, however, as the film develops it becomes clear that the true message of the film does not promote hypermasculinity and instead warns against it. The Narrator undergoes an internal struggle as he fights against both his animalistic side, represented by Tyler Durden, and his emasculated side, represented by his unnamed self. Through the relationship between Marla, the Narrator and Tyler Durden, which begins as a purely physical relationship and evolves into love, the film offers balance as the only solution to both hypermasculinity and modern emasculation.
The film introduces the unnamed protagonist as being a slave to modern consumerist culture who is stripped of any sense of masculinity. Since the Narrator does not experience emotional stimulation from his everyday life as all his time is spent at an unfulfilling job and shopping at IKEA, to satisfy his human need for stimulation, the Narrator attends support groups seeking to forge a genuine connection with another human that is ironically formed through a feigned disability. As time passes, the Narrator seeks a connection that is deeper than what is offered in the support groups and expresses interest in Marla as evidenced by their exchange in phone numbers. However, his romantic pursuit of Marla is held back by his hypermasculine alter-ego, Tyler Durden. In various moments throughout the film, the Narrator rejects the idea that he is developing feelings for Marla because he allows his animalistic self to overpower his emasculated self. One significant instance of his suppression of his feelings for Marla can be observed when Tyler Durden is chemically burning the Narrator’s hand. In the early act of the film, a cancer support group facilitator recommends that the group meditate and find their power animal to bring them through a difficult time in their life. In the Narrator’s initial vision, he sees a penguin sliding and later in the film, when he undergoes intense chemical pain, that penguin is replaced with Marla, his new power animal, which demonstrates that the Narrator does have feelings for her but will not act on them because of Tyler’s hypermasculine belief that love is for emasculated men.
The relationship between Marla and
... keep reading on reddit ➡Had a date the other day with this one guys who I had been talking to on tinder. Everything was going well until he began to touch my inner thigh. I told him that : Hey I don’t know you like that and I don’t like that. Then he proceeds to laugh it off and says: Come on babe, you a guy and guys are always horny. He then proceeds to try to touch me ass and that’s when I get mad and tell that is date is over, he gets mad and starts yelling at me, I then proceed to leave and he then calls me the n word. (BTW I am African American)
This is not the first time someone had tried being aggressive towards me on a date and just because I want to meet someone in person does not mean I want to instantly fuck you. I believe that consent is very important and boundaries should be respected but what frustrates me especially in the gay community is that there are some men who are overly aggressive and creepy. Not everyone wants to be fucked on the first date and I am one of those people.
I guess what I am asking is did I do anything wrong in this situation ? And have you ever been disrespected on a date ?
>As video games have attracted more critical attention and theoretical discourse
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https://donotlink.it/ApyJ
>On the gridiron, Michael Sam, who has not taken a single snap in the NFL, has turned the NFL, ESPN, and all sports media outlets into his personal circus since his coming-out announcement. LGBT activists are overjoyed at the announcement, thinking he will be a symbol of courage, as an inspiration to the future’s gay in-the-closet athletes who fear being judged in the harsh confines of the locker room by their fellow, pussy-juggling teammates.
>In reality, Michael Sam is simply the first drop of poison in entering the NFL system, and it will continue to spread. What people are failing to realize is that locker rooms are not at all politically correct. Players do not censor themselves like we are forced to do in the corporate world. While homosexuality has been gaining acceptance momentum in society as a whole, the locker room is a vastly different animal.
>You see, locker rooms are one of the last true places that contain only, or close to only men. It is a place where men are free to make all of the crude jokes they want; where they are free to bond together as males without fear of outside judgment. Of course, Sam claims the people making these jokes are simply uneducated:
So homosexuality is not masculine, thus crude jokes at their expense are ok? Also can you explain the apparent link of asserting masculinity by hazing and abusing percieved homo homosexuals in the locker room?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5fe8/fa844a64fa0f45427acf8cef8a85e05b7bd3.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiA8YK51p7jAhUrmeAKHQEpCcgQFjABegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw16G-3Bh5vJ2Jmag-dpqiCB
https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/the-masculinity-motivation/
Or how male victims of assult fear being called less then manly i.e. "not straight" i.e. "gay", so they do not come forward?
https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/the-masculinity-motivation/
>Gay rights activists want homosexuality to be viewed not only as acceptable, but natural. They want to push gay propaganda on to children, and they will throw fits if they are not allowed to do so. They are supporting athletes like Collins and Sam simply because of the publicity it brings to their movement.
How about the fact they have to keep quiet while everyone else asserts their heterosexuality and can possiblly be harassed for even mentioning that they are different.
>When Super Bowl winning quarterback for the Green Bay Pac
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Words really fail me.
