Young men aren’t being forced to follow toxic masculine icons like Tate and Peterson, they’re choosing to consume their content over healthy masculine icons.
Models for healthy masculinity exist. They’re unpopular, because young men don’t want to be healthy. They are choosing to be toxic.
So let’s all remember who is at fault and who needs to change here - it’s the menfolk, not everyone else. Stay fabulous. Get a cat.
@Slyence I never understood the desire to follow masculinity icons of any variety. There are masculine people I follow but they are being masculine in other avenues of life - work, family, spiritually, hobbies, etc. Masculinity icons and media, where they explore life primarily through a hyper gendered lens are weird to me. Genders exist but they are just one facet of life, and it's a really weird thing to tribalise on when humanity can express them in such complex spectrum of possibilities.
@Slyence I think like most tribalism it's insecure people looking for easy answers in a complex scary world, but we really should be giving tools to the next generation to navigate things without needing blinding simplifications.
@Neblib@Slyence Few yrs I caught my younger bro watching Dan Bilzerian on Insta. My brother was already ~30yo, too. Wtf?
I poked him, "what is this content doing for you? Is this aspirational?" Because it's super vapid and I knew Dan was a prime example of toxic masculinity. He kinda mumbled "he's got a nice house and cars..."
My brother was always the more "macho" b/t the two of us. He's a literal Chad (Nominative Determinism at work). But still, it was weird seeing him watch that garbage.
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