Men's Liberation
This community is first and foremost a feminist community for men and masc people, but it is also a place to talk about men’s issues with a particular focus on intersectionality.
Rules
Everybody is welcome, but this is primarily a space for men and masc people
Non-masculine perspectives are incredibly important in making sure that the lived experiences of others are present in discussions on masculinity, but please remember that this is a space to discuss issues pertaining to men and masc individuals. Be kind, open-minded, and take care that you aren't talking over men expressing their own lived experiences.
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Be proactive in forming a productive discussion. Constructive criticism of our community is fine, but if you mainly criticize feminism or other people's efforts to solve gender issues, your post/comment will be removed.
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Do not call other submitters' personal experiences into question.
No bigotry
Slurs, hate speech, and negative stereotyping towards marginalized groups will not be tolerated.
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Recommended Reading
- The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, And Love by bell hooks
- Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements by Michael Messner
Related Communities
!feminism@beehaw.org
!askmen@lemmy.world
!mensmentalhealth@lemmy.world
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this is so obvious to me, i'm hesitant to believe you're engaging in good faith, but i will answer like that's true behind the below spoiler. i hope you can appreciate the fact that i have had to go re-expose myself to this transphobia to explain this to you
cw transphobia
a direct quote from "TJ SNIPES"
if you don't understand why this is transphobic, idk what to tell you
there's also a later section from "AIDAN SILVA", which, while not explicitly transphobic, does blame losing the election on democrats going to bat for trans people, when they very much did not even go to bat for trans people. obviously, the democrats did a lot wrong during the election and also they didn't do anything right; i'm not here to argue that. but it's kind of shitty to blame us for that when the dems hung us out to dry (trans rights were not a core message of their platform and they really went out of their way to pretend we don't exist during the harris campaign). of course, this article was just asking some dudes what they think; they don't necessarily have the most informed opinion. it's just shitty and unpleasant to encounter, and i wish the article had acknowledged it in some way
I'm sorry you had to expose yourself to that again but I don't find that very triggering. First guy is religious so can't you just discredit his opinion because he's a nutjob?
what are you disagreeing with here exactly? it's transphobic and i left a respectful comment stating that as a warning for others and a request for better labeling going forward. do i need to justify my reaction to request that hatred be labeled? i don't appreciate being told i should just brush it off
i left the comment saying such because i think that hateful content should be marked as such, so that people can make informed decisions about if and when they interact with it. any given person may be able to handle such content on a good day or prefer to avoid it on another day. do you disagree that people should be given that choice?
like, i could talk about my individual reaction, but it's not really relevant to my making the post. i think that labeling content is fundamentally inclusive for everyone, because it's not just trans people who might be triggered by it. maybe a cis guy didn't feel like reading about how his fellow men are transphobic at that point in time, especially because he knows how bad society is and being reminded of it fucking sucks for him, too
this is not a controversial take, i genuinely don't understand why you're meeting it with such dismissiveness. this community literally has a rule against bigotry, i don't think asking it to be labeled is such a big deal