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BlueVeins · 22-25
No, most LGBT rights activists & feminists aren't gender abolitionists, and honestly gender abolitionists have some pretty good points. I'm not one, but the concepts of femininity & masculinity can really confine people and sway them to do things they don't need or want, or prevent them from getting things they do need or want. It would be pretty cool if we could loosen those restrictions, but I don't think it makes sense to fully abolish gender, since it semi-naturally arises from sex.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@BlueVeins Ask a woman - she can always distinguish American males from European ones. Dress and mannerism can be different, and certainly other nations have their own forms of machismo, but there is a gentler, more refined air to a European man. The de riguer cargo shorts/logo tee/ball cap uniform of the American male, combined with his worship of everything bigger/better/faster/stronger makes for relatively unattractive package of toxic masculinity.
No one's asking US men not to be men. We'd just like you to be a little less obnoxious about it.
(To anyone to whom this does not apply, do not take offense. It's not about you.)
No one's asking US men not to be men. We'd just like you to be a little less obnoxious about it.
(To anyone to whom this does not apply, do not take offense. It's not about you.)
BlueVeins · 22-25
@Graylight Don't need to ask a woman, all that shit is blatantly obvious to anyone who's seen either country lol.
There are actually people who want US men (and global men, for that matter) to not be men, and women to not be women, and their arguments tend to be pretty reasonable. Here's some reading material on the subject.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/its-time-for-a-world-without-gender/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgenderism
No one's asking US men not to be men. We'd just like you to be a little less obnoxious about it.
There are actually people who want US men (and global men, for that matter) to not be men, and women to not be women, and their arguments tend to be pretty reasonable. Here's some reading material on the subject.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/its-time-for-a-world-without-gender/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgenderism