Insightful! I’ve thought about how the “progressives” hate toward masculinity was lazy, a way to make a systemic problem of patriarchy into a problem with an individual’s masculinity. Same with pro patriarchy people minimizing criticism of patriarchy by claiming it’s an attack on masculinity instead. I wonder how much overlap there is between the people who cosplay masculinity they lack, and the people who are pro patriarchy.
Thank you for the comment and Of course. They are two sides of the same counterfeit coin …one trying to resurrect masculinity through hollow aesthetics, the other mistaking criticism of power for an existential attack on their own fragile sense of self. Both are in many ways allergic to nuance, addicted to a form of victimhood, and united in their inability to see beyond themselves.
Also the point of destroying masculinity to sell it back to us.. whew. The acceptable version of masculinity will eventually become something only achievable via products. Innate masculinity will need to be at least modified or fully replaced by purchased masculinity to be deemed acceptable.
The concern with corporatization of aesthetic has a lot of merit with the framework in modern masculine archetypes. Everyone will be weaker for the subliminal demand of conformity from the big corpos selling our dreams back to us. I believe queerness is antithetical to aimless nihilism which allows us to absorb identity through the shallow layers of egoic embodiment. Divergence from external systems, including overt fashion signals that translate gender, will always lead to the space where we are liberated from the role of gender performance. I see that space is not exactly void of purpose, though certainly presents its existential crisis in our cultural context. I hope people respect masculinity and femininity as the joined essence that generates self-awareness. Maybe its always been the purpose of commercial fashion to sell us the ideal of presenting a socially recognizable self, whatever manifests as the norm. Certainly, the western world is steeped with a legacy which propagates the merit of the individual through social categories. I can't deny the temptation of buying into an image has accelerated with the increase of manufactured convenience.
I know that you have to embrace your masculinity and your femininity in all aspects of life. I have been to war with all my masculinity and I have cared for my daughter with all of my femininity. Alexander the Great knew this fact and practiced both. He could lead masculine men into battle and when sitting around the fire with his lieutenants he'd let the feminine side show in order to build strong bonds between brothers in arms. I have always embraced both masculinity and femininity. They're in everything! Plant & animal alike. Get over yourselfs, ya silly human turds.
I wrote a poem about this! Masculinity took a hit! How will it recover?
https://open.substack.com/pub/spiralspace/p/past-the-time-of-the-wowboy?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=5ey4ok&utm_medium=ios
Insightful! I’ve thought about how the “progressives” hate toward masculinity was lazy, a way to make a systemic problem of patriarchy into a problem with an individual’s masculinity. Same with pro patriarchy people minimizing criticism of patriarchy by claiming it’s an attack on masculinity instead. I wonder how much overlap there is between the people who cosplay masculinity they lack, and the people who are pro patriarchy.
New subscriber, this is great!
Thank you for the comment and Of course. They are two sides of the same counterfeit coin …one trying to resurrect masculinity through hollow aesthetics, the other mistaking criticism of power for an existential attack on their own fragile sense of self. Both are in many ways allergic to nuance, addicted to a form of victimhood, and united in their inability to see beyond themselves.
Also the point of destroying masculinity to sell it back to us.. whew. The acceptable version of masculinity will eventually become something only achievable via products. Innate masculinity will need to be at least modified or fully replaced by purchased masculinity to be deemed acceptable.
The concern with corporatization of aesthetic has a lot of merit with the framework in modern masculine archetypes. Everyone will be weaker for the subliminal demand of conformity from the big corpos selling our dreams back to us. I believe queerness is antithetical to aimless nihilism which allows us to absorb identity through the shallow layers of egoic embodiment. Divergence from external systems, including overt fashion signals that translate gender, will always lead to the space where we are liberated from the role of gender performance. I see that space is not exactly void of purpose, though certainly presents its existential crisis in our cultural context. I hope people respect masculinity and femininity as the joined essence that generates self-awareness. Maybe its always been the purpose of commercial fashion to sell us the ideal of presenting a socially recognizable self, whatever manifests as the norm. Certainly, the western world is steeped with a legacy which propagates the merit of the individual through social categories. I can't deny the temptation of buying into an image has accelerated with the increase of manufactured convenience.
I know that you have to embrace your masculinity and your femininity in all aspects of life. I have been to war with all my masculinity and I have cared for my daughter with all of my femininity. Alexander the Great knew this fact and practiced both. He could lead masculine men into battle and when sitting around the fire with his lieutenants he'd let the feminine side show in order to build strong bonds between brothers in arms. I have always embraced both masculinity and femininity. They're in everything! Plant & animal alike. Get over yourselfs, ya silly human turds.
You should just delete this one lil bro
Could you expand on why you think this?
eye opening stuff- thanks for this dope exploration!