Against Masculinity - 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.
nichtsowichtig @ nichtsowichtig @feddit.de Posts 17Comments 162Joined 2 yr. ago
nichtsowichtig @ nichtsowichtig @feddit.de
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I don't think that is necessary. What we should do is to detach gender from any form of judgement or expectation. There is this feminist, liberal idea of how a modern man should be like, act like, feel like - but at the end of the day it is still maintaining the concept that men have some sort of role to fulfill. That it is what bothers me about gender expectations: you are supposed to be in a certain way just because of the sex you were born with/the gender you appear to be. And no matter how you want to (re)define it, you're always going to have people who won't feel comfortable in these categories.
What exactly is the colonial attitude supposed to be? This discussion seems to focus on western ideas around gender?