Do you feel pressured to be a useful man? - eviltoast

That is, do you feel like your worth as a man is related to your practical utility?

  • T. T. Perry@mastodon.social
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    1 year ago

    @TemporaryBoyfriend

    The topic is about being pressured to feel like a “useful man”, which is a central concept of patriarchal masculinity. It’s great that you are a responsible person. But you are the one missing the point here.

    • TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I suppose I don’t get the idea that people are feeling ‘pressure’ that isn’t a normal and natural part of merely being alive. Unless you’re an animal in a zoo, where your needs are met automagically by a benevolent altruistic force that wants nothing in return, the pressure comes in the form of being hungry and wanting food, being cold and wanting warmth, being outside and wanting a structure to live inside.