the kind of masculinity that is like chopping down trees to build a house or w/e is hard to display. it would also be weird to post a video of you doing that yourself; almost have to have someone else do it for you
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it's a catch-22. actual masculinity is not performative, but you can't put it on twitter (or any social media) without being performative
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i guess the trick is to hang out with people who like to candidly post vids of (and tag you) you being masculine without your knowledge?
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Why not challenge this, guys? I'm being serious.
If anything, it sounds like this is one of those social contracts everyone follows but no one likes.
Who's brave enough to start forging a new path, experimentally?
My money is on it being really well received.
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What I mean is: why need the friend there?
If there were some comparable kind of video I could post, I'd do it- but I think this is largely going to be on you guys. Not the same thing when a girl does stuff like that.
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i mean fair but also i literally have no idea how to pull this off
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brb, gonna go buy an axe
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the kind of masculinity that is like chopping down trees to build a house or w/e is hard to display. it would also be weird to post a video of you doing that yourself; almost have to have someone else do it for you
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this reminds me that there are people on youtube who do like, woodworking stuff, building literal houses and they can somehow pull this off
so
hm
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i can't speak for their attractiveness but some of them definitely don't come off as pretentious or anything
but they are like, middle-aged or older?
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In a job interview I was asked to “teach us something we don’t know”... I feel like a video a video answer to that question on a dating app could probably communicate *so* much information
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i def think profile pictures and possibly also bios on dating apps should be replaced with videos
there was a dating app like that! unfortunately it failed. it rocked though. your profile was basically, it asked you three random questions and you made a video of yourself answering them and you had like idk 10 seconds to answer them
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