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 ๐
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.
Iโm pretty sure taking your daughter to a Taylor swift concert is just good parenting
im confused is the guy in the second picture the one from the first tweet?
Jason just needs clarification
I keep my man card in my purse and my woman card in my pockets
What an ALPHA manly man with hardworking man-hands!
..where did his chin go though?
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.
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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 wasnโt just common, it was socially reinforced. Gay was used as an insult, casually and constantly. People rarely questioned it. Teachers didnโt 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, โIโm secure enough not to care what other people think. Can you say the same?โ They usually followed up with more immature remarks, which Iโd call out too. The problem wasnโt what I wore, it was that I wasnโt afraid to wear it.
In the 90s
Being a bit optimistic, eh?
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I think it's so funny that these toxic masculinity types all pay for a little blue participation trophy
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.
There is value hidden in there, they are saying they need a card to feel like a man. No card exists, so they have not and never feel like a man. Really only useful if you want to manipulate them.
Gotta love when they loudly proclaim they are a fucking moron not worth your time.
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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 tends to mean something akin to "you don't even need to transition to be a woman, because your masculinity is already so corrupted that you effectively already are one".
This logic isn't in contradiction with their transphobia, but in fact synergises with it. Trans men are seen as having no right to intrude upon the privileged position of masculinity, and trans women are seen as even more horrifying due to the fact that they willingly eschew their masculinity โ something that's incomprehensible to someone whose personal identity is 90% whatever hegemonic masculinity tells them to be.
A friend remarked to me once that one of the reasons she found transition liberating was because she had been bullied all her life for being too effeminate, so coming out as trans felt like shouting "you can't fire me, I quit!"
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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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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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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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
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