Men feeling ennoscriptd to female affection + men suddenly facing sweeping statements about their gender they weren't exposed to previously + the left failing to provide non-toxic masculine role models while the right provides the worst ones possible = The super misogynistic anti-feminism prevalent at the moment.

I do believe that the rise in particularly rancid misogyny right now comes from previously unexamined male privileges/attitudes suddenly being (rightly tbh) called into question and men getting violently defensive about their inherent advantages in society, but I also believe that the left's willingness to criticize without providing meaningful alternatives to toxic masculinity/examples of positive masculinity exacerbated the issue, and it's something the right deliberately capitalized on to create a truly horrific backlash.

Tl;dr, the left needs to make a point about talking about what "good" masculinity looks like

Anyway, on the specific subject of "men are trash" rhetoric, because there's a lot of debate and blame about the election results on it going around rn:

I don't think it's to blame for what happened, and I think people are being weird and reactionary for arguing that point, but I do think it's part of a wider environment of ineffective rhetoric.

Aside from arguably being gender essentialist (failing to distinguish men are inherently trash v. Men are cultured to dismiss, disregard and disrespect women) it also fails to leave room in its argument for men to better themselves, by rhetorically making the issue about manhood as a state of being, rather than the conditions of modern masculinity (which hurt men too!)

Anyway, that's my milquetoast thinkpiece for the day

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Destroying the department of education will only make this worse

Hoshoryu absolutely killing it rn, lfg!!!!

Let's talk about the gay panic defense. The gay panic defense, in simple terms, is a common legal defense where the defendant in a case for assault or homicide of a queer person defends themselves by arguing that the queer person was making "unwanted advances," potentially allowing the defendant to dodge a more serious charge, such as a hate crime.

Here is a map (via Wikipedia) of states (in blue) where the defense has been outlawed. I am not sharing this information to cause panic, but to help queer people further understand their legal rights, and to provide a list of states to consider relocating to, if one sees it necessary to flee their home state to avoid the threat of violence. Stay safe out there kids, you're stronger than you know.