I hate the whole x is manly/masculine crap.

Most of the time it’s just glorifying highschool jock behavior. Some stereotype of an alpha chad with their “masculinity” dialed up to toxic.

I’m a dude and you know what I think is manly/masculine? Being a good person, paying bills, working and earning money for your family, being a good parent to your kids, taking responsibility when you make a mistake and trying to fix it, respecting people property, boundaries, rights, and freedoms. Generally being helpful, productive, and kind.

Otherwise known as being a productive member of society.

You can be deficient in some of these areas too, like earning money to support your family, maybe your spouse is the breadwinner and you’re the stay-at-home parent. That’s good too. If you don’t have offspring, then we can waive the parenting stuff. Etc.

And these things don’t just apply to men, they can all be applied to women too, because being manly to me, is more about being a good human.

Anyone pushing a different narrative, to me, is someone pushing for people to be garbage.

I don’t care what you have between your legs, or whether you have kids or not, or whether those kids are your biological offspring or not. I don’t care what color you are, where you come from, who you love, what your job is, how much you make, what diplomas or degrees you have, or what God you may, or may not believe in.

Be kind to eachother. Support your friends and family. Be a productive member of society. Be a good human.