No one is saying you should stop being strong or rugged or handsome or hard working or whatever.
We're saying you don't have the right to make more money than we do for the same work. We're saying you don't have the right to tell us what to do with our lives and our bodies.
If that's a problem then yeah, you are a loser and a failure and a whiny little Nazi boy waiting to happen.
As someone who has had to navigate this shit, the reason is quite simple:
If being strong or rugged or handsome or hard working or whatever is gender affirming for your masculinity you will do it regardless of external and social pressures to do so.
If what's actually gender affirming for you is the social game of masculinity which is explicitly a power game (masculinity as expressed by dominance displays of others and perceived superiority) ... that requires engagement and others to buy in.
The first can't die. It's something you do for yourself. The second? Doesn't function in a society that's less and less interested in playing that game.
So yeah. Anyone who sees masculinity as able to die?
whiny little Nazi boy waiting to happen
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