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Are you manly?
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Celestefey
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Nope, I'm more "stereotypically" feminine in a lot of ways. But it doesn't bother me. It really shouldn't bother anyone if they're manly or not, as long as you're happy in being yourself, that's what should matter most.
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Not to brag but I'm a staggering 5'2", weigh an impressive 115 lbs, and I can lift two 7 lbs cats at the same time. So yeah I'd say I pretty much define stereotypical "manliness."
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Lol what is this post.
Feminine things =/= weak things. They're two completely different things but stereotypically they're considered to go hand in hand with one another. A girl can be "strong" but still like feminine things, likewise a man can be "strong" and still be feminine, whatever, you know?
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Manliness is a social construct designed to make men compete against each other to be the Alpha Male? as well as a means of degrading femininity and the only way to combat this is accepting anything as manly because it is a fake concept anyways
Someone's been on tumblr for a bit too long it seems.
So you're saying that manliness is "social construct and bad" Cause it hurts femininity which by the same coin is also a social construct, and is no better at that, lmao.
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Depends on your definition of manly.
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If I had a nickel for every time someone called something they disagree with "tumblr" I'd be swimming in nickels.
Femininity is also a bullcrap term IMO (along with like... anything gender roley) but it's not a social construct because it is generally looked down upon rather than being praised like masculinity.
Maybe don't put words into peoples' posts that aren't there, that'd be a good idea.
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If I had a nickel for every time someone called something they disagree with "tumblr" I'd be swimming in nickels.
Femininity is also a bullcrap term IMO (along with like... anything gender roley) but it's not a social construct because it is generally looked down upon rather than being praised like masculinity.
Maybe don't put words into peoples' posts that aren't there, that'd be a good idea.
Tbh masculinity and femininity are okay terms it's just a pain in the ass to have to deal with all of the negative connotations each one holds.
It's so goddamn frustrating when I go over my girlfriend's house and cook a bunch, which I really love to do, and her parents are like "hur hur you'll make a great wife"
but then again without any of the connotations then there's literally no point to labeling things as either of them so...
why... do they exist?
wait, crap, my bad, im being too tumblr
seliph
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They're okay terms if you just want to use them to stereotypically define someone/something but yeah they hold so much poisonous expectations within them that I don't like using them unless I have to
But watch out Zephyr if you come up with any norm-challenging ideas you're automatically a horrid tumblr sjw feminist!
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I'm neither. I'm not masculine, I'm not feminine, I'm just me.
Celestefey
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Btw, just putting it out there, discussions about things like masculinity, femininity, social constructs, etc etc, have been happening long before Tumblr even existed. It's not a "Tumblr-y" topic, it's something that is happening in our lives, and it just so happens some people on a blogging website like to discuss it and spread awareness about it. You don't necessarily have to be interested in it but it's something people should be aware of because whether you care about it or not it does affect you as a person.
It's not a "Tumblr-y" topic, it's something that is happening in our lives, and it just so happens some people on a blogging website like to discuss it and spread awareness about it. You don't necessarily have to be interested in it but it's something people should be aware of because whether you care about it or not it does affect you as a person.
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I like manly things like auto racing but hell no I wouldn't say I'm of the manly type.
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Feminity and masculinity are fine terms to use. Feminity is defined as the finer side of life, attention to detail, emotion, etc. whereas manliness is pretty much just a rough-and-tumble sort of thing. neither of those are sexist. it's when we say that men can't be feminine and women can't be masculine that things become an issue. the only problem I see with this is that the terminology often makes people think they have to conform to one or the other. it's not true.
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It heavily depends on the context in which those terms are being used. My main problem with them is that they do have weight in the society we're in and generally cater to gender roles, and we all know why those are a problem. For example calling guys "feminine" is often used to degrade or separate them from other guys rather than just being... a thing about them like enjoying sports.
But anotherthing is "masculinity" is such like a frail fragile concept for so many guys for some reason like you touch a flower once and now you're simultaneously a gay guy and a woman
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