If you're a 40 year old grown ass adult you can do whatever the fuck you like. Man cards are for insecure idiots who need reassurance.
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I don't know how to tell you this but man cards aren't real. If you have purchased a man card you have been a victim of fraud π
Metaphorical man cards are for insecure idiots who need reassurance.
I love the "man card" metaphor because the more you interrogate it the worse it gets. It implies that his masculinity is so insubstantial that he needs a special card to validate it, like a Linus Blanket or something, which in turn is a self-defeating act.
The Man Card Paradox is that holding a Man Card automatically disqualifies you from holding a Man Card.
I am always fascinated how the man who is strong enough in his convictions to do whatever the hell he wants is considered the "weak" one whereas the "macho" shit is afraid of his own shadow and that some other man may not like what he's doing.
In the 90s, especially in high school environments, homophobia wasnβt just common, it was socially reinforced. Gay was used as an insult, casually and constantly. People rarely questioned it. Teachers didnβt intervene unless things turned violent, and even then, the issue addressed was the aggression, never the prejudice. It was an era when appearing different, even slightly, could make you a target. Most people avoided standing out if they could help it.
During that time my grandma gave me a pink terrycloth nightgown. On her it was a nightgown, but on me it fit more like a long shirt. I thought it was amusing and comfortable, so I wore it regularly without giving it much weight.
Each time someone hurled gay slurs at me, I replied, βIβm secure enough not to care what other people think. Can you say the same?β They usually followed up with more immature remarks, which Iβd call out too. The problem wasnβt what I wore, it was that I wasnβt afraid to wear it.
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The manliest thing a man can do is whatever the hell he wants.
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I think worrying about if your actions will "lose your man card" is the surest way to "lose your man card."
The insecurity is pathetic
If you are a man over 40 attending a Taylor Swift concert it's highly possible you have a teenage daughter.
Caring for your kids interests is GAY men!
-twitter blue user & divorced twice
My brother actually gets this a lot from other fathers. They apparently can't comprehend a world where a man with two daughters might actually give a shit about what their daughters like to do, and take an active interest in those things.
As someone whose father didnβt give a shit about his daughter, please tell your brother he is a kick ass dude and give him a hug from this internet stranger.
Our local Scout troop closed in part, I'm told, because parents treated it more like a daycare for a few hours rather than something to be involved in and do WITH their kids. The troop felt they were no longer fulfilling their mission and decided to dissolve.
We weren't involved in the troop at all but I still found that news really disappointing. I'm a busy guy but I still try to make time for my kids.
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Having seen how little attention other fathers pay their own kids at those fathers-visit-school events, they absolutely don't. They barely even notice their boys.
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This US thing baffles me. It goes "whoa, a man cannot possibly buy tampons, or hold his friends handbag, or whatever..." because some braindead six year old idiot character out of Beavis and Butthead might magically pop out of thin air and guffaw "Haha, tampons!", which is somehow, potentially terminally embarassing and will end your public life.
Its not a US thing. Its a loser thing. This brand of machismo is globally available.
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What an ALPHA manly man with hardworking man-hands!
..where did his chin go though?
What does this "surrender your man card" even mean? I must transition to be a woman? So much for protecting people from being "force-transed" for showing even the slightest form of gender-nonconformity!
It means you're not a man, you pussy!
...it also implies that "being a man" is not determined by your birth, but rather by your decisions and lifestyle, and that everyone is in fact gender fluid and able to change their gender at any time.
So basically, toxic masculinity is actually woke as fuck
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You forfeit your Alpha Male Club membership and any dues paid immediately.
You are disqualified from ever becoming a Navy SEAL.
If your favorite sports team wins a championship it will have nothing to do with you being a fan.
If you have any male cats they are promoted to King (s) of the house.
Itβs brutal.
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My work has guys who have really high toxic masculinity. Off the top of my head, some of the things they complain about not being man enough are: umbrellas, gluten free, and mushrooms
The umbrella one always cracks me up. Lookin at these wet fools in the rain when I'm nice and dry. Such a strange hill to die on.
Rain?
I'm just here shoving them up my ass.
I personally don't use umbrellas cause I just put up the hoodie I wear and walk around like normal. But yeah, it has nothing to do with masculinity
I like the fact that the umbrella maintains visibility.
Yup, got em here too. We get provided either lanyards or extendable clips for our badges at work. Overheard a group of contractors saying wearing the clips made you gay. Its the dumbest shit I've heard. How can wearing an ID badge be anything?
Wearing the clip on your pants makes way more sense since the badge readers are all at waist height.
So where do they put their badges? Up their asses?
I can understand (NOT AGREE) how umbrellas and gluten free fit into their twisted view on what is 'manly'; using external sources to cope with difficulties. But mushrooms? The fuck? Just man up and eat them, they're delicious shakemysmheadmh
Mushrooms look too phallic to put it in a man's mouth
I bet they're the sort of guys who don't wash their ass because "that's gayyy".
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I'm fine with anyone saying "surrender your man card". It lets me know I can safely ignore this moron; they have nothing of value to add to any conversation.
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Iβm pretty sure taking your daughter to a Taylor swift concert is just good parenting
I think it's so funny that these toxic masculinity types all pay for a little blue participation trophy
There are very few things more manly than having the courage to do something "unmanly" in public.
There's a lot of gay ways to eat a banana...
But I can't imagine a gayer way someone would legitimately try to eat a banana than with a spoon.
Like, being ridiculous, sure, chopsticks. But maybe doing this but mashing it up with a bobba straw till it was a smoothie and drinking it
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I keep my man card in my purse and my woman card in my pockets
The most ridiculous thing in this image is someone calling himself "Gunther Eagleman"...
It's like a name that 80s cocaine-addled Stephen King would have come up with.
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My daughters and I (and my son, and my wife) have been to more than 50 concerts together. Got another on December 5th: 12 of us.
We love music. And one another.
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Heβs eating it with a spoon so no one can say he eats bananas for the shape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXLqDGL1FSg&t=68
Yes, he's serious. I present: Ray Comfort
I remember when I first realized that Flat Earthers were serious. For a couple of years after hearing about them, I assumed it was satire. Something in me broke then, the realization that not only a few people, but many people were really that stupid. It's only gotten worse since.
On the upside, my estimation of my own intelligence went from "average" to "above average". And, I'm fucking stupid.
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I thought long and hard about what it would mean to me if someone called me "not a man" for anything I do and I came to the following conclusion: nothing. I can do all the same things with or without the label "man". Funny.
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