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This sounds…unhinged, homophobic, and like black pilled toxic masculinity. Stuff like: > GenX men are largely codependent and needy owing to pressure to be "s
by skinnymuch 4y ago
This sounds…unhinged, homophobic, and like black pilled toxic masculinity.
Stuff like:
> GenX men are largely codependent and needy owing to pressure to be "sensitive,"
> being largely raised in broken homes,
> so their ideal relationship now resembles what is effectively sexual cannibalism elsewhere in nature.
> They don't identify as men because they think men are who hurt their mothers, the source of their belief in a perfect infant self.
What?
- legerdemain 4y agoUncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to be ugly in a fully grown adult.
- skinnymuch 4y agoWhat? Obsessing over men being men and worrying about made up gender norms is the most childish binary way of thinking.
- legerdemain 4y agoLack of involvement with the father or over-involvement with the mother may result in lack of ability to relate to sexual peers.
- dang 4y agoMuch as I value a Robyn Hitchcock reference, please don't troll on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 4y agoIt's a quote from a song which satirizes this way of thinking.
- motohagiography 4y agoIt's 2023, we're adults, we can have conversations about how we relate. Given the original topic was about how men demographically have trouble forming relationships - where they did not for literally centuries, the meaningful question is what has changed. I had direct experience with the growth issues facing a traditional fraternal organization. We can't really use the words we mean when we talk about the jargon this comment uses, but suffice it to say, among the scores of men I know socially, the people who use that jargon are punchlines.