There's been lots of discussion about toxic masculinity and dudes trying to "be more masculine" without really talking about what masculinity means or what men who are truly secure in their masculinity look like. What does security and confidence in your masculinity look like and what can you do? The laundry? Knit? What?
#1
"...that I don't have to make declarative statements about how secure in my masculinity I am."
17points
#2
...I don't even have to wonder whether I'm secure in my "masculinity". I'm just a seventy-year old man who tries to treat all other people with dignity and respect. Really, that's all it takes. It's called Humanism.
13points
#3
... that it's never even occurred to me to think about how masculine I may be.
9points
#4
... I can embrace my femininity. "
I tend to disagree with masculinity/femininity, who gets to decide what is what? Tough fishermen used to knit themselves those thick, white, woolly jumpers on nights at home when not fishing. Fishing the cold North Sea made these men tough, you going to tell them knitting is feminine? Why would you categorise knitting as feminine in the first place?
People, you do what you want, masculinity/femininity is pretty much all nonsense.
I tend to disagree with masculinity/femininity, who gets to decide what is what? Tough fishermen used to knit themselves those thick, white, woolly jumpers on nights at home when not fishing. Fishing the cold North Sea made these men tough, you going to tell them knitting is feminine? Why would you categorise knitting as feminine in the first place?
People, you do what you want, masculinity/femininity is pretty much all nonsense.
7points
#5
I only paint my toenails manly colors
5points
#6
I wonder who is asking the question in the first place.
3points
#7
That I am a house husband and my woman makes the money. She brings home the bacon, I fry it up in a pan... and I'm all man.
2points
#8
... I share my favourite bamboo shoots with the gay panda from the neighbouring bamboo grove without feeling to have to drum my chest in a very heterosexual manner the whole time.
2points
#9
She brings home the bacon, I fry it up in a pan, and I never let her forget I'm all the man she'll ever want or need.
1point