Manuela Malasaña on Nostr: something that gets me about attempts to counterbalance "toxic masculinity" by ...

something that gets me about attempts to counterbalance "toxic masculinity" by defining a "virtuous masculinity," usually with traits like nuturing, protecting, giving, teaching etc, is that it still defines manhood as "doing stuff for other people"

it's like feminism 101 that one's womanhood is not measured by how useful an object one's body is, somehow as a society we're not quite making the connection that manhood is not measured by utility either