Autistic community (like most communities) has a toxic masculinity problem. Where our toxic masculinity problem starts is with what non-Autistics teach (or fail to teach) us about gender and sexuality. So.
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Here's a thread on my take, as an Autistic person, on involuntary celibacy and Autisticness.https://twitter.com/EbThen/status/865297160216170496 …
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Here's the top of the "incel" thread because it gets a bit long I guess.https://twitter.com/EbThen/status/865255722501771264 …
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A quick TL;DR: 1. "Incel" = involuntary celibacy = not having sex, not because you don't want to, but because no one will have sex with you. 2. Autistic boys and men often get taught toxic masculinity as part of "social skills" around gender and sexuality. 1/
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TL;DR, cont. 3. Part of toxic masculinity is treating sex as a thing men are owed for existing. The incel "philosophy" is: If men are not having sex, it can only be because of oppression or the badness of women. 2/
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TL;DR, cont. 4. A lot of white cis Autistic boys and men believe they are owed sex and the fact that they aren't having sex (if they aren't) is because of ableism and the badness of women. That is, a lot of white cis Autistic men have bought into "incel" to explain things. 3/
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TL;DR, cont. 5. My perspective, as a nologender (woman-ish) Autistic person, is that this is all bullshit. Given a lot of mainstream "wisdom" about Autisticness and evo psych, I can see why so many white cis Autistic men buy into the incel idea. It's just wrong. 4/4
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Here's another thread on a related topic.https://twitter.com/EbThen/status/916704755312922624 …
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I've also written quite a bit on Autisticness and Toxic Masculinity.
“#EbMetaThread On Autism and Toxic Masculinity”https://twitter.com/i/moments/901998425796902912 …Show this thread -
Here's a thread on some of the ways parents and guardians teach and enable toxic masculinity. https://twitter.com/EbThen/status/884113300769918976 …
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Here's a thread on the Netflix trash show, Atypical, and toxic masculinity.https://twitter.com/EbThen/status/897516047443656704 …
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Bless you and thank you for this. Signed, feminist autistic person.
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