The Crisis Over American Manhood Is Really Code for Something Else ( www.politico.com )

a-man-from-earth , 11 months ago

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RandoCalrandian , 11 months ago

That’s because “manhood” and “masculinity” were code for “acts the way I want, and not making their own life choices in any way contrary to what I want”

So the conversation is more like:

the way men used to be beaten into behaving like doesn’t work for me, but I want to continue to beat men into a ‘shape’, just one I like. We need a new ‘manhood’ because I still want to be an abusive sexist piece of shit, while also benefiting from that abuse. Someone come up with an ‘ideal man’ image so my abuse of these boys doesn’t come back to bite me later

It’s just trying to continue to be sexist, while not giving men power or competency