i am friends with some women who are very feminine and i appreciate this about them not ideologically just as complementary sets of skills and Ways thinking about this a lot
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dunno about this? preexisting pressure on men to perform traditional masculinity only became stronger with feminism, seems (as it stands anyone who advocates or defends traditional masculinity pilloried as a heretic, but anyone who actually doesn't do it scorned & reviled)
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& what's worse, bc it's women who are the overwhelming source of pressure to perform masculinity, in past male-only spaces could be a respite (to some degree) but feminism included lots of attacks on those now very little escape for men from women's judgment, which is pitiless
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ooooh that seems pretty plausible
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Similar to "oh no women have education now how will men ever recover from having interesting convos on first dates" and "it's feminist for women to ask out men, men rekt"
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the main answer here is that the pressure you are talking about is very far from universal - if it were actually universal "feminine" behavior would be practically extinct 1/n
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the vast majority of people happily use gendered reasoning about stuff all the time and don't hold to a rigorous and consistent philosophy of complete erasure, even if they sometimes emit stuff that sounds like they endorse it 2/n
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Growing up bullied and hated for being unmanly... being short, unathletic, with poor eyesight was rough. I had a thing for designing stuff, a decent IQ (tested well but didn't know that then), a romantic, and talking too much. So I got spit on and called f****t every day.
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Now, I'd be embraced to death by a group I was never a member of. Which is essentially the same thing. Good news is my wife considers me masculine and I'm in better shape than the guys from high school. I never go to reunions to show off. From my youth:pic.twitter.com/72Xcrnk2Kq
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"easier" is a slippery term. I get what you're saying though. Part of it may be that men generally give less of a shit.
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or give a shit differently
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