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| Topic | This past pride month has got me taking a look at myself. |
| adjl 07/05/23 1:25:31 PM #10: | Muscles posted... "Toxic masculinity" is just the lack of masculinity. No, it's the promotion of toxic traits as being acceptable, laudable, or even required under the pretense that they're "masculine." Even without considering the social ills, it's a pretty fallacious bit of reasoning. It's like if I murdered somebody, and you were all like "you shouldn't murder people," and I was all like "it's okay, it's the glarfindoogy thing to do" and walked away as though that had somehow settled the morality of the matter. "Masculine" offers exactly zero semantic value in that context. More generally, though, it's a product of gendering traits and activities that don't need to be gendered. Being honest and courageous aren't "manly" traits, they're just good things for anyone to be. Gendering virtues and then treating the gender itself as being the virtue in question misses the point of the actual virtues and opens the door to lumping non-virtuous things in under the banner of the gender. Just skip the gendering part. It's completely useless and often outright harmful. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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