shoutout to that one guy here who lost his shit about pumpkin coffee and spammed alts with cartoon names heiling hitler
Shitposting this as a feminist that genuinely loves men and wants to see them liberated alongside women.
The first act of violence the patriarchy commits is forcing men to emotional harm themselves and view compassion and empathy as weakness.
Masculinity genuinely has a lot to love about it and viewing it as inherently always bad is a reactionary viewpoint leftover from 2nd wave feminism. That same reductionist thinking also lead chunks of that movement into becoming TERFs.
There is, of course, a lot of toxicity that men need to work through and that is part of what makes patriarchy systemically efficient. Patriarchy couldn’t perpetuate misogyny as a form of control if it didn’t first warp and hijack masculinity.
Virtually all of the personal growth I’ve gone through as an individual has included deprogramming some toxic aspect of machismo in one form or another. I know it’s preaching to the choir on this site but it can’t be said enough that feminism is a humanism and its promotion benefits us all :feminism: