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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep and so are cat owners and anyone that has a stereotypically feminine hobby like knitting or crochetting. Sexism is bad for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah. fuck toxic masculinity. Hold strong brothers. be weak, be vulnerable, be soft, be the man you want to be.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s more masculine than being who you want to be no matter what others think

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Fuck those soft men.

Literally. Literally fuck them.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

As a transfeminine vegan, this is oddly validating in the most sus way possible.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

If someone is judging me for what I want to eat, I'm not the one with the masculinity issues.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Fellas, is it gay to try and be healthier?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Let it be. If dietary option correlates with inteligence, it will help thin out the herd by excess of cholestherol.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Real men kill wildlife with their bare hands, eat it raw, and fuck the corpse.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The irony here is that real men wouldn’t care, and the irony in that- is that you cannot define a “real man” as all men are real.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Caring about perceived masculinity does not sound very masculine to me, so whatever. I'm confident enough to stand by my choices and others should too.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If someone verbally calls me not masculine for whatever choices I make I usually just respond with “isn’t the real pussy bitch thing to do is to judge others for their food?”. It’s not the best comeback, sure, but it does short out their brains a bit

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“Maybe you should try a salad too some time you fat fuck”

Or

“I dunno, it’s not very manly to care so much what morons think of me either.”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Caring about being manly and shitting on other guys for not being man enough is a sign that you're very insecure about yourself and/or your sexuality in my eyes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought shitting on other guys was called a Cleveland Steamer.

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[–] Fedegenerate 3 points 1 year ago

"I suppose that would matter, if I gave a shit what you think" was my retort when someone trwid judging me for my spiced rum and cranberry. They didn't like it, they also don't say shit when I order a hot chocolate.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The whole idea of assigning gender to foods or diets is bizarre to me.... a salad is feminine while steak is masculine? What about vegetables on a burger? Or a salad with steak in it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see it a lot on tinder when women say in their profile they beed a real man that eats meat. How absolutely bizzare. There is bothing manly about buying meat. No one goes hunting

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love bringing up the hunting aspect when people use the “but my ancestors ate meat” line. Like yeah they ate it after tracking it for a week with the strongest members of their community and killing it in a life or death struggle that tested the limits of their endurance. And even then they ate it sparingly so as to not have to go on another life threatening hunt for as long as possible. Not exactly the same as skulling bacon wrapped baconator burgers every night while binging Netflix from your couch.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I misread your typo as “breed” lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are whole languages that assign gender to every object.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but me living in una casa (house, feminine) doesn't make someone make someone feminine by proxy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well obviously not; being inside a female is super masculine

spoilerHopefully obvious sarcasm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's nothing more masculine than taking a big, burly, hairy beast of a man... then bending him over and fucking the shit out of him.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t know if you’re being serious but what does that have to do with anything? In Italian the word for “beard” is feminine, I can assure you nobody links it with femininity in any way. Just because the neutral gender doesn’t exist that doesn’t mean everything is actually gendered.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@Sho @Joleee Easy, intersex! Or, if we're going with gender, nonbinary!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

a salad is feminine while steak is masculine?

When has a 90s cartoon ever been wrong?

https://youtu.be/watch?v=cM2u5-mVx7Q

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Talk about a mood, I haven't heard space ghost in forever!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Put the steak on top of the salad. win win.

-nonbinary thinking, btw lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a friend who truly believed in the whole "soyboy" thing and touted that people with "low testosterone" or who do "girly things" aren't "real men".

This motherfucker was the most unlikable, insecure, lonely man I've ever met. I was his only true friend until I finally got sick of the radical horseshit he began to openly support.

Don't take the opinions of stupid people with any value.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're always skinny-fat, too. Like if you were a meat titan or something I might consider the "Low T" argument at least logical. But when you're smaller than me and think your political affiliation makes you more masculine... Well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah. This dude was almost 300 lbs. One time whined to me about how liberals are going to try to "force the normalization of eating bugs in the US!" Like...... okay...? What?

I hit a breaking point eventually when he tried to be clever by not directly answering my questions about his ideology. I finally just said "This isn't a court of law, jackass. Just answer the damn question with a yes or no." Fucking coward couldn't even do that.

In the end, there's nothing more shameful to them than being compared to a woman. Which says a whole damn lot about their core beliefs.

Pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

gotta die with a wagu marbled heart to be a real man

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I grew up watching 'The Rockford Files.' Great show if you've never seen it. The star was James Garner, who later became the spokesman for the beef ranchers' association. He gave up that job after he had to get a quadruple bypass.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I was raised vegetarian, and as such it was normal to me and my brother. My mom did it for environmental reason because she is fucking awesome and I have decided to stay vegetarian as an adult.

It was around 10 when I started encountering this oddness. I would be at a friend's house, they would offer to give me food, I would say I'm vegetarian, and they would act like I was an alien or make comments about my parents being abusive to me. And then as I got older I got all these comments about me not being a man because I don't eat meat.

For fucks sake, being a man doesn't mean conformity. As far as I can understand, it means being brave enough to not give in to stupid gender norms and to find out who you are for yourself.

Of course the people who made the most asshole type comments were always right-wingers, too. What a surprise!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Trying to live longer vs your stupid opinion. Gee, I wonder what's more important.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

One of the best lovers I've ever had was vegan, I haven't seen him in over a year but whoo-EEE I still think about him every single day. That man fucked passionately.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Masculinity / insecurity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

In times of food scarcity it's important the male can eat the weaker babies, so the strong offspring can survive /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Man, I love Lemmy so much, just look at the comments, this will be the total opossite in the alien site, meta site or bird site, for sure. Feels good man 😊

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