• Rickety Thudds@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Gender is merely an aspect of identity, and expressing your identity in a positive way should not be discouraged

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      7 months ago

      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.

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      7 months ago

      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