In the mornings right after I put Squishy on the bus, I often sit and finish my coffee while looking through some of the articles our google overlords recommend, and being trapped under a snuggly puppy.
And a while back, there was near a week where every day I would see a headline talking about toxic masculinity or similar things, and want to read it. Every time, I would get about a quarter of the way through, and find myself upset with how toxic the articles were themselves.
They talked about how women don't want men to be taught about toxic masculinity. Saying that it makes men too passive, and then the women actually have to approach men. That men are simply using this as an excuse to not pursue women at all, and become too busy with video games.
They talked about how horrible it is that people claim they don't feel that their gender matches their body. That it's a mental illness rather than simply an orientation, and saying that it's terrible that parents are expected to accept what their child feels they are.
All manner of things that just make them look closed minded.
And it's amazing, because where I see that a lot of articles talking about people who are lgbt simply say "Why won't they be open and accepting of us?" these very much stomped around saying "Why won't they just do what we did, and what we want?"
The unfortunate part of this, is that while these people mostly take up my parent's generation, there are people like this who are younger. Who just want a small black and white existence in the world, categories you are born into, and never having any personal agency.
Men are not becoming passive. They are finally exploring themselves, and not feeling like they need to be some macho ass who simply exists to sleep around. Women are being encouraged to show strength and be assertive in what they want, in order to even the playing field. People are encouraged to identify in a way that is befitting of them.
We are in a world where things are becoming level, and we're fighting for that to continue, rather than simply stagnate.
And a while back, there was near a week where every day I would see a headline talking about toxic masculinity or similar things, and want to read it. Every time, I would get about a quarter of the way through, and find myself upset with how toxic the articles were themselves.
They talked about how women don't want men to be taught about toxic masculinity. Saying that it makes men too passive, and then the women actually have to approach men. That men are simply using this as an excuse to not pursue women at all, and become too busy with video games.
They talked about how horrible it is that people claim they don't feel that their gender matches their body. That it's a mental illness rather than simply an orientation, and saying that it's terrible that parents are expected to accept what their child feels they are.
All manner of things that just make them look closed minded.
And it's amazing, because where I see that a lot of articles talking about people who are lgbt simply say "Why won't they be open and accepting of us?" these very much stomped around saying "Why won't they just do what we did, and what we want?"
The unfortunate part of this, is that while these people mostly take up my parent's generation, there are people like this who are younger. Who just want a small black and white existence in the world, categories you are born into, and never having any personal agency.
Men are not becoming passive. They are finally exploring themselves, and not feeling like they need to be some macho ass who simply exists to sleep around. Women are being encouraged to show strength and be assertive in what they want, in order to even the playing field. People are encouraged to identify in a way that is befitting of them.
We are in a world where things are becoming level, and we're fighting for that to continue, rather than simply stagnate.
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