• spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app
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      Machismo is overrated.

      There are honorable qualities of traditional masculinity that are grossly underrated these days. Like honesty and the view that a ‘real’ man takes responsibility for their work and gets shit done. Or that a real man respects women and their sometimes very different struggles.

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          They’re saying the ideal man has those qualities, not that everyone with those qualities is a man.

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          In my experience, honesty and responsibility are not gendered, they’re endangered.

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          you’re the only person asserting they are. having a trait be associated with an ideal of a gender doesn’t mean it’s an exclusive association.