masculinity is in fact fragile and women can easily trash it by merely defecting rather than cooperating in its maintenance, and after decades of casual encouragement to do this at the drop of a hat as if there were no costs involved, only benefits, there isn't much of it left
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general principles suggest, though, that the effect this pervasive pressure will have is to breed resilient masculinity for which women do not have the arm's-reach nuclear killswitch that has historically been their birthright, which is a nightmare scenario of epic proportions
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nightmare scenarios of epic proportions are probably Good Actually yeah
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They make good books (looking at the laundry files here)
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Counter-thought: is all masculinity toxic? In the manner of the definitional difference between manliness and masculinity?
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No, masculinity is great. The toxic label gets overused and misapplied a lot.
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here we have in the wild positive-sum feminism, which just wants women to get to be people. as opposed to the culturally dominant zero-sum feminism that also wants women to get to be people but only understands that to be possible if men don’t
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the latter will also tell you that not all masculinity is toxic, of course, but if pressed for details will enumerate a vision of male-implemented femininity
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Pretty sure you're begging the question on both knees here. Any vision of non-toxic masculinity articulated in a toxic patriarchy is going to read as (nearly) indistinguishable from femininity because of excluded middles.
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stands to reason. good thing there definitely aren't any questions being begged there
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What's that conjugation? I reason You approximate They babble ?
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