The way I see it, they’re literally trying to affirm their genders. They’re insecure about if they’re really men or not, so they have to go by ‘alpha male’ so that everyone knows that they’re not just regular males but the full roast brand. Men+. It’s their version of a pronouns pin.
They also occasionally partake in other forms of gender affirming care like shaving their eyelashes because eyelashes are for girls. And getting together and going “ew girls” over Captain Marvel and other good looking women in tight fitting superhero spandex, in between praising how swole Joe Rogan is looking. These are things that make them feel like manly men.
Yeah they’ve created a crisis of masculinity but not the one they think. It’s one in which they look at men who are gentle, kind, or even just normal and see insufficient masculinity. They think a balding man with a paunch and a good and stable career is less of a man because he isn’t sigfried or heracles.
What is the place for men in our society? As people. The right is basically selling the idea that an overaggro epic hero is the only thing a real man is because the alternative is a slow and difficult growth whereby men cast off the chains and blinders of patriarchy and the rest of us joining in the growth as we learn to see men not as a threat/provider dichotomy but as just people. It’s to continue the slow and difficult process of our society changing it’s understanding of gender from as a class to as an attribute.
The way I see it, they’re literally trying to affirm their genders. They’re insecure about if they’re really men or not, so they have to go by ‘alpha male’ so that everyone knows that they’re not just regular males but the full roast brand. Men+. It’s their version of a pronouns pin.
They also occasionally partake in other forms of gender affirming care like shaving their eyelashes because eyelashes are for girls. And getting together and going “ew girls” over Captain Marvel and other good looking women in tight fitting superhero spandex, in between praising how swole Joe Rogan is looking. These are things that make them feel like manly men.
Yeah they’ve created a crisis of masculinity but not the one they think. It’s one in which they look at men who are gentle, kind, or even just normal and see insufficient masculinity. They think a balding man with a paunch and a good and stable career is less of a man because he isn’t sigfried or heracles.
What is the place for men in our society? As people. The right is basically selling the idea that an overaggro epic hero is the only thing a real man is because the alternative is a slow and difficult growth whereby men cast off the chains and blinders of patriarchy and the rest of us joining in the growth as we learn to see men not as a threat/provider dichotomy but as just people. It’s to continue the slow and difficult process of our society changing it’s understanding of gender from as a class to as an attribute.