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I think there's a lot more in this space than people may be aware of. I have seen a fair number of breadtube discussions about what positive masculinity looks like.

In particular, F.D. Signifier just talked about masculinity in anime, and what good masculinity looks like.

But honestly this exists in a lot of places. Ted Lasso in S1 of Ted Lasso is a reasonable example of more positive masculinity.

And the real question that I think is gonna make a lot of people mad is. Why do we need a separate definition of "What makes someone a good man?" vs. "What makes someone a good woman?" vs. "What makes someone a good person?"

Why is it important for people to be good while attached to a gender? I say this as a cis-het-white man who is following my best impression of how to be a good man. But the answer I'm running headlong into, is that there's nothing about my gender that means I shouldn't be striving to just be a "good person".

parent xracy 3 years ago

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