• Trekman10@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    Just waiting for the day when someone can explain to me what makes a man a man without describing skills, qualities, and actions that anyone can do regardless of gender.

    And don’t tell me it’s “have a penis”, because if that were true then effeminate men wouldn’t be insulted all the time for not being “real” men, and there wouldn’t be toxic masculinity.

    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Same question for women. Gender is only useful insofar as we decide it is. We have an inherent nature to categorize and differentiate, and in some cases that makes a lot of sense, but outside of strictly biological facts, that distinction between genders is nebulous at best.

      Like religion, gender identity is personal, even if it stems from society. No two people will share the same opinion, it’d probably be weird if they did, and as long as they’re not using their opinion as basis for fact, do whatever you want, man woman or anyone in between, outside, or around the spectrum.

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      5 hours ago

      Idk, but i feel like it’s just being who you are and respecting yourself.
      Same as a woman being a woman.
      Anyone that’s confident in who they are isn’t going to care or announce it.

      All the blustering either way is just yelling “im a grown ass man/woman!” outside of a grocery store at 1 am.