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This is is patriarchy in real time. He's attacking that guy's masculinity as a public reminder that real men enforce gender norms even in the most intimate relationships. It's preying on insecurity to control men to control women.
This kind of gender enforcement is pretty common for boys aged 4 until death. The trick of the true oppressor is to get you to surveil yourself.
- I agree with you 100% and I want to highlight how weird that behavior is.
  First you need to analyze an ad. Then you need to ignore that she has a brand and marketing 101 is that ad needs to fit the brand. Then you need to feel like you can make place for your partner to shine. Only then you can come to these poorly thought-out conclusions.
  What it really is:
  She takes photos that fits her branding. It is a play on "behind every great man is a great woman..." Highlighting that the greatness of a woman can be her strength/power and the greatness of a man can be their love and care.
  What they read, "man behind woman, man take care of children, weak". How insecure is that?
  It is a loving supportive message to men and women and they read it like that.
- Allow me to share a small personal story. An anecdote, as it is often called.
  I was home for ten years with my children. I changed diapers, took care of meals and chores, and when it was time for it, I took my children to pre-school.
  Being a stay at home father, being present for my children, was trampled on by teachers and the mothers of other children. It was disrespectful, demeaning. I was unwelcomed and unwanted. Some even tried to create a narrative that I was a danger to the children.
  Women were more vitriolic and systematic in their gender affirmation than men.
  That is extremely sad and telling.
  The guy in the post is an idiot and being told to shut up and told off, followed by perhaps a couple of punches to the teeth would be enough to get him to stay quiet.
  Women would not be so easy to handle.
  
  This. I'm trans and I've existed in public as both a man and a woman.
  Nothing is more soul-crushing than being called The Devil simply for being of a sex that isn't even one you want to be!
  One of the few Right Wing talking points that I sort of agree with is the idea that men are demonized just for existing, because they REALLY are. I'm not surprised men are responding with hostility to being told their very masculinity is toxic.
  Don't get me wrong, Dudebros are still fucking awful, but... "I get it" if that makes sense.
  Doesn't mean I recommend anyone takes Andrew Tate or Jordan Peterson's advice and no incels are not based, but... damn ya know.
  
  I am of the belief that a woman would respond similarly to a couple punches to the teeth. ,Fuck around and find out. I'm not enforcing gender roles out here.
- I mean he's married to an extremely successful woman who is worth, according to my searching, $1.4 billion.
  I'd stay home with the kids too. Please be my sugar mommy, hot billionaire. I will live in your luxury mansion if all it takes is changing diapers and stuff.
- THERES NOTHING MORE STRAIGHT THAN BEING THE ALPHA MALE IN A SEA OF OTHER MALES.
  DOMINATE THE WEAKER MALES.
  MAKE THEM KNOW THEIR PLACE.
  DO NOT THINK ABOUT THEIR NON-ALPHA PENISES OR THEIR CUTE LITTLE BUTTS.
  FOR YOU, YOU ARE THE MOST ALPHA OF ALPHAS.
- Banger quote at the end right there
- I love this notion that “you’re not a real man” unless you do what real men tell you to. That is gold.
- To be honest it's not just patriarchy anymore.
  Nowadays conservative agenda serves the elite only.
  Meanwhile this controlling hurt most mens as well. Pushing them to only value themselves through work, to repress feelings for productivity... all of it makes for more servile workers.

Boys, we've done it.
It is now gay to be straight.
- last week we were told on lemmy that all men we were legally women now and were ok to get cheap drinks at ladies night. Now we are also all gay. OK I guess. So straight guys are all lesbians now?
  
  So many people's porn fantasies just came true.

After his wife died, Rick Moranis quit his successful Hollywood career to raise his kids.
What a total homo.
- Honey I Shrunk The Kids, So We Can All Fit In The Closet Together
- I love this. So gay
- I heard a rumor a year or so ago, that he might come back to do some passion projects, now that the kids are grown.

Fuck man. I'd love to be in his position lol.
Wife rich as fuck, hot as fuck, and all I gotta do is:
support her and be taken around the world by her
have sex with her
stay at home and play with the kids and toys?
Have you seen the toys kids have now? That shit is fire and a thousand times better then the shit I had as a kid.
Homey is jealous that the grind he on didn't come with a heavy dose of luck, and all he's got is a Twitter Account run by a non-sleeping, ketamine dosing nazi.
- Have you watched the show Mad Men? The whole Betty Draper (January Jones) story arc shows how much that lifestyle falls apart in the long run.
  What you described? Sounds like an amazing vacation for a week or two. But then as the months and years drag on, and your high-flying career spouse is never around, shit really starts to set in. That life is lonely AF!
  Sure, it’s great to be with your children, take care of them, teach them and bond with them. But small children do not provide the social and mental outlet that an adult needs.
  There’s a reason so many tradwives pull the ripcord after a few years. No one should ever feel like a prisoner in their own home.
  
  Did we watch the same show? I think you're ignoring the incredible amount of cheating that was occurring and how much that contributed to it all as well as that other big secret that's spoilerish.
  
  I was a stay-at-home dad twice. I found it very fulfilling both times.
  Maybe don't turn to fiction to figure out what reality is like?

He loves his kids! What a fag!
- So when he loves his kids he gets called a fag.
  When I love his kids I get arrested.
  The double standards are insane.
- What a cigarette?
- Huh?

Someone had't recieved enough love from his father and wants to be an asshole about it
- someone hasn't received enough
  asshole
  This comment is gay.

Conservatives believe there are only 2 possible roles for a father, absent or abusive.
- They don’t even consider the abuse abusive. Got in an argument with some conservative dumb fuck and that idiot had the gall to say,
  “My parents beat the shit out of me for doing things like that”
  Like cool, dude. That really explains way more than you think lol

I like how it calls out the bullshit that men can't care for their kids.
- Nothing is more homosexual than being a loving, present father for the children you've created with a woman.
  
  No cap that's actually so gay fr
- "I love you, dad."
  "Sorry, son. That's gay. I'm never speaking to you again."

I’d let Rihanna fuck me in the ass…just saying.
- Nothing gay about being fucked by a woman.

There is nothing manlier than gay sex.
So having sex with women is feminine.
- Yep, heterosexual sex between a man and a women is gay as fuck, she’s literally fucking a dude which is the gayest thing you can do.
- "Somehow I feel more like a man when I'm wearing a dress"
  Thurmon Munson

Guys: is it gay to have sex with a woman? This is urgent I have one in bed with me right now
ETA: Doesn’t matter had sex.
- Sorry I’m going to need you to turn in your hetero card.
  
  Okay I think I left it at your mom’s house. It could be anywhere cause she tore my clothes off like a fucking wolverine
- E'rybody hetero until they need they dick sucked

Poor guy is confused who he wants to bang more Rhianna or the husband. That's why he is so angry.
- I think he's angry because he's not confused about wanting to fuck the husband.
- I mean have you SEEN Rocky???? No wonder Lord Pretty Flacko Jodye is getting dudes confused

yeah i'd sub for Rihanna too
- No no don't give me incredible sex and a million dollars...nooooo
  
  No, I am a father to kids that have their future secured! Oh, my terrible fate!

That Shadaya dude is just African Andrew Tate. Bet many African nations are going to have to deal with maladjusted manboys in the near future, like what is currently happening in the West.
- Uganda has been leading the way in this

I never see anything useful from these alpha types - they don't post about what they've made, how they solved a problem, what new things they have learned, nothing. Just self-aggrandisement and shitting on people they deem lesser.
- The men who claim to be "alphas" are some of the least alpha men in society I swear. Not that that's even a real thing
  
  Alpha release if anything. Their minds are not properly debugged yet.

Why is the comment about being gay, he's talking about "emasculation", so this is about masculinity, not about heteronormativity. Still, assigning your perceived masculine virtues to everyone is kinda cringe ngl, as is defining femininity as inferior.
- I mean generally toxic masculinity comes with a healthy dose of homophobia on the side too
- Because emasculation of men is just a dog whistle for bigots. At best. At worst it is just a euphemism.
  Yes, those are two different things. For bigots they might be the same thing.
  End of the day, both are just cultural war olympics for dumb masses.
  
  Any energy spent trying to generalize some already poorly defined mass of people is wasted energy.
- reads Vogue
  cares this much about what other men are doing
  thinks having children with Rihanna is emasculating
  For a guy whose whole identity is based around their opinion of what straight masculinity is, this is an interesting hill to die on.

I wasn't worried about whether or not I was gay before and I'm still not worried about it. People like this seem to be very worried about whether or not they're gay. It's weird because all I need to know is that I'm not sexually attracted to men.
- Repression and denial. The most toxic person is always the one who is insanely jealous and trying to convince themselves that what they desperately want is bad.
  Be wary of people with compulsive phobias. It's one thing to be scared of something, but something completely different when they can't stop talking about it.

I think that might be the point of the photo, right? It's not exactly subtle.

Wait 'til he finds out about Versace

A palindrome.
- What on earth is the point of this
  
  Lol, I don't know! Palindromes keep linguists busy so we can all say slang words with freedom.

It tickles me how much more cordial this thread is compared to the one about violence at night. No essays about how it isn't true, or how women are presented "worse." Just empathy and good discussion, and some jokes here and there.