The "She Matters" mural in Hosier Lane, Melbourne - a mural that names the women who have been killed in attacks of gendered violence, has been vandalised.
The perpetrators painted "war on men" across the names and pictures of the women murdered.
We can't even have our grief.
I'm so tired of men.
When I rise to power, one of my first acts will be to establish national cuddle clinics for all those emotionally neglected souls who think volume equals value.
We get it. Your dad should’ve hugged you.
There's no need to install a jet engine on your scooter.
@tazgetroete -wie groß muss die fremdscham der vielen anständigen (?!) #männer eigentlich sein?
Ist sie es????
#männerwelten #sexismus #rassismus #metoo #jaistja #vergewaltigung #218a #frauenrechte #gewalt #missbrauch #merz #cdu #incels #malelonelinessepidemic #male #toxicmasculinity #patriarchat #frauen #pussy #trump #dickpic
What if I told you that even Andrew Tate could benefit from feminism?
Not satire. Not sarcasm. Just 5 real reasons why dismantling toxic masculinity helps everyone — including the loudest critics.
Read the essay. Reflect. Share.
"To them, Trump embodies the characteristics of an Old Testament God: angry, vengeful, and demanding unquestioning loyalty. Follow the rules without exception or face some serious smiting. These are the characteristics that many men have chosen to shape their parenting, some to the point of emotional abuse."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says he ponders why people are so obsessed with Trump that their loyalty is more a compulsive fetish than a healthy choice. His answer"
"There are many answers to that question, and I’ve explored them all. But one of the main ones is the pathological need for a judgmental father figure."
#Trump #tariffs #ToxicMasculinity #destruction
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https://kareem.substack.com/p/trump-tariffs-tank-economy-and-4
"White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt mused that 'boys will be boys!' when asked about the increasingly ugly feud between Elon Musk and Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro at Tuesday’s briefing. …
'These are obviously two individuals who have very different views on trade, and on tariffs. Boys will be boys!'"
~ Isaac Schorr
"'and imported millions and millions of illegals to work in construction, manufacturing, landscaping, janitorial services – jobs that used to give men access to the American dream.'”
"Batya Ungar-Sargon reckons Trump’s economic policy is going to fix the 'crisis of masculinity'. On Sunday, Ungar-Sargon told Fox News that the US had 'shipped jobs that gave men who work with their hands for a living, and rely on brawn and physicality, off to other countries'" …
~ Arwa Mahdawi
#Trump #tariffs #ToxicMasculinity #destruction
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/08/trump-tariffs-masculinity-family-fox-news
A number of commentators today are noting the attempt of the Trump regime and its epigones to spin the tariff madness (and destruction) as boys being boys, a favorite theme of Republicans, since one can hardly blame boys for behaving like boys. Bless their hearts, behaving badly is just what men do after all, Republicans love to inform us.
On this topic, see Media Matters on Fox News' spin of the tariffs as "manly."
#Trump #tariffs #ToxicMasculinity #destruction
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https://www.mediamatters.org/five/fox-news-chyron-trumps-manly-tariffs
As someone taking the opposite path from the below image:
I navigated it most of my life by constantly and obsessively managing my threat presence. It felt like a constant battle with the toxicity of other men. I had my guard up not because there was some threat of women assaulting me, but because watching their guard go up around me felt like being stabbed in the gut, like a lifeline getting cut off.
It took trauma and ego death for me to really start building an actual community for myself. I had bits and pieces I had gathered carefully and with great effort, but all that toxicity kept me from knowing what to do with it.
Now, even later, transition has been a massive weight lifted. (For those in the closet or eggs cracking: people clocking you doesn't make much difference here, if they put up that anti-creep guard around you they're a bitch anyways)
I feel like I can breathe. Connection is so much more casually there. I can see it in people's eyes, I can be in a crowd of strangers and I feel drastically less alone.
Unfortunately, those years of malnourished pain don't just disappear. I still have all of those threat management patterns, I feel like I'm scarred and sometimes even bleeding from that. There's a caution in me, afraid that people will misinterpret, that this wonderful person I want to make friends with will abruptly shut down on me and then disappear from my life if I relax too much, if I'm too open... I still feel like I'm emotionally walking on tip toes...
"Protecting girls" from trans people:
"Hall “screamed and shouted” at the player “you’re a fucking boy and shouldn’t be playing in a girls side...”.
"After the abused player left the field in tears, her father approached Hall informing him he could not speak that way to his daughter, to which Hall reaffirmed his belief that the abused player was a boy and should not be playing in a girls team."
Talking about toxic masculinity.
As a trans guy I DREAM of having a beard.
But I also know that my masculinity has nothing to do with it, the same way it has nothing to do with what is -or isn't- between my legs.
Cis guys could learn a thing or two from us in that matter.
As with school shooters, let's stop giving free publicity to toxic masculinity and instead drown them in Positive Masculinity like these kids do.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiktok-manosphere-sexedforguys-1235302892/
Coleman Spilde is right. Essential tv for all: "I’d go as far as to say that "Adolescence" should be required viewing for all teenagers, & certainly a condition of having a phone. If a teen wants to be tapped into the digital echo chamber, they have to know what it can do to them. Goodwill & hope that parents will raise their children correctly aren’t enough when the worlds inside of their phones can undo all of that learning."
@LeilahLilienruh wer mit der Aussage „nicht alle männer“ kommt, hat das Problem nicht verstanden, ist sogar Teil des Problems. #femizid #gewalt #frauen #toxicmasculinity #patriarchat #sexismus #antifeminismus #broculture #rapeculture #männerwelten #feminismusoderbarbarei #feminismus
#ToxischeMaskulinität (und nicht nur), problematischen #Konsum reflektieren. Auch selbstkritisch, realistisch, ohne Dogma, ohne Dämonisierung.
Wir sind alle fehlbar – der Umgang (inkl. dem eigenen) damit macht den Unterschied.
1st they platformed #WhiteSupremacy, then they followed the “X” example of #moderation, now douchey-douche is cosplaying #ToxicMasculinity
Women make up just 35% of the #tech workforce & hold only 11% of executive roles. The industry has long been a prime example for the workforce’s #GenderGap, but acc/to #Meta CEO #MarkZuckerberg, “masculine energy” is being sucked from the workforce, & corporations need to bring that “aggression” back.
