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dingledoorf
@dingledoorf
seems more masculine to me. i think part of is is about constraints. part of streotypical masculinity is being willing to ignore/disregard social constraints. you can't do that well in constrained apps like dating apps. but twitter is unstructured enough to allow it.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
yes i think twitter has more affordances for displays of healthy masculinity than dating apps but it’s still not super great, e.g. it’s very disembodied by default, people mostly don’t post video of themselves so you don’t get to hear their voices or see their bodies in motion
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dingledoorf
@dingledoorf
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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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
yes. this is why the masculinity grifter gurus fundamentally contradict their own messaging: it’s extremely lame to spend all your time tweeting about masculinity as opposed to just being out in the world doing and being it
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dingledoorf
@dingledoorf
Apologies for the necro but I think this belongs here and wanted to be able to find it find later. Masculine af, almost absurdly so, but so compelling somehow. Watching it makes me feel both uncomfortable and intrigued, don’t know what to make of it.
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
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Replying to @visakanv and @QiaochuYuan
youtu.be/nlABFsv72Lg
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lisatomic
@lisatomic5
Ok I have a question I hope other people will chime in on: do you perceive this man as *angry* (right at the beginning), and do you experience it as frightening? I ask bc I maybe have a “male anger” trauma/trigger and I have been told that I am misreading anger.
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