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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

LOL! Almost that exact phrase is what I use whenever my wife asks me why I'm peeing outside in my backyard instead of just going inside to the bathroom.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

Funny thing: only ever heard women say this

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

As a biological male and someone who identifies as a man, it's pretty weak, IMO, to need someone else to make you feel a particular way.

Are you in control of your feelings, or do you constantly need someone else to reinforce, or induce a feeling in you?

Personally, I'm in control of my feelings, and bluntly, nobody else has control over me. Neither for how I feel, or what I think/do; with the only exception to what I do being governed in part by legality. Eg. If I know a thing isn't legal to do, then I won't do that thing. Beyond the rule of law, I do, think, say, and feel, whatever, and however I want.

To me, having that much control over my own self is what makes me a person living in a free country. Anyone who does not have the ability, like I do, to think, feel, do, and love, whomever and, whatever they want, is someone who I want to support in gaining that right.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The idea of controlling your feelings seems laughable. If you have control they aren't feelings, just thoughts. You cant really control thoughts either, just control what you do with them. Except we know that humans in general don't have great control of our actions either. We just have to live in this comfortable little lie where we have control over ourselves despite all evidence to the contrary in order to maintain a remotely reasonable society, but it's not real any more than your belief that you control your feelings.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

People in general like receiving positive feedback. There is no need to assign feedback to gender roles.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

But maybe you could still pretend I am a strong man every once in a while anyway? As a treat?
no... oh... okay...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Normalize feeling like a man as somebody who is given space to feel anything beyond anger or shame. A man needs to feel like he can talk about things on his mind at any given time, to anybody he trusts. A man is somebody who can cry when he is hurting, and it be okay; that he won’t be labeled as weak or a coward.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

A wife would know exactly what it means and how to do this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Two people who care about each other will provide all forms of validation and support that someone needs. This is kind of the point of being in a relationship, a partner who makes you feel like [insert thing you want to feel like] when you need it, and you give that validation back to them as they require it.

We seem to have gone severely off-course when we started expecting a world full of uncaring strangers to give us all kinds of validation for things.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but none of this is misandry.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Check the usernames. Someone that claims misandry as their identity is just spreading it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

This whole “like a man” thing sounds to me like an extension of the toxic cultural BS where “men” are not just humans with emotions and needs like every other human. It reeks of men who are too scared or ignorant to be self-aware and figure out what life really means to them, and thus they need the people around them (especially the partners) to play along in their power/masculinity fantasy.

What a man needs is to realize he’s just another human, and that for humans happiness and fulfillment can ultimately only come from within. Relationships with others are crucial, and you might even need some medication to get your brain chemistry unfucked, but neither of those are independently going to make you happy with yourself and “feel like a man.”

“A man” can refer to roughly half the adult population. It’s not exactly an exclusive club. Why not leave gender out if it and try to be “a good person” and see where that gets you?

Having the people around you walking on eggshells to keep your manly ego intact, whether it’s out of fear or pity, is the exact opposite of what a good person should strive for. What if the people around you instead trust you, feel safe with you, laugh with you, and are better off with you in their lives?

Source: Am man. Went through some stuff. Figured some things out. Made some things better. Have wife and child who enjoy life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Pride come before the fall

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