It’s perfectly fine to be a “feminine” man. Young men do not need a vision of “positive masculinity.” They need what everyone else needs: to be a good person who has a satisfying, meaningful life.
Unless you’re a man, because then it’s free for everyone to opine their high school philosophical take on penises and vaginas and how we should see them. Jesus christ education is dead.
of course it shouldn’t! but the problems arise when it becomes some sort of pressure to conform to.
A man likes working out, look jacked and have a well combed beard? If he’s happy in his body, that is awesome! doesn’t mean we should make a role model out of him and encourage others to be like that to. Because a man who wears dresses, knits and is a huge nerd about make-up is equally worthy of feeling happy about himself. If we make any kind of masculinity more ‘positive’ than the other, we run into problems
Gender is merely an aspect of identity, and expressing your identity in a positive way should not be discouraged
Unless you’re a man, because then it’s free for everyone to opine their high school philosophical take on penises and vaginas and how we should see them. Jesus christ education is dead.
of course it shouldn’t! but the problems arise when it becomes some sort of pressure to conform to. A man likes working out, look jacked and have a well combed beard? If he’s happy in his body, that is awesome! doesn’t mean we should make a role model out of him and encourage others to be like that to. Because a man who wears dresses, knits and is a huge nerd about make-up is equally worthy of feeling happy about himself. If we make any kind of masculinity more ‘positive’ than the other, we run into problems
It’s almost like there are more than two clearly defined expressions of gender