#hyper masculinity
*Thinks men are trash because women and femmes are systematically oppressed through patriarchy*
*Thinks maybe men aren’t trash because Newt Scamander, T'Challa, Jack Pearson, and Randall Pearson all exist*
*Remembers these men are all fictional characters and I rarely meet men in real life as extraordinary as ones on film, and rarely see women on film as extraordinary as ones I know in real life.*
*Continues to think men are trash*
A post I’ve been thinking about but yall need to realize men are just people. Gender and biological essentialism is still bad even when you apply it to men. Men aren’t inherently evil or bad. Men are taught toxic masculinity and to be misogynistic (just as white people are taught to be racist) but they aren’t inherently this way. This isn’t meant to absolve them either. Men need to take responsibility for unlearning the toxic messages they have been taught. But like, honestly men are just people. They aren’t inherently bad people.
Men are just people, people who also struggle due to the patriarchy.
