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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ok, I'm gonna say this one more time in a different way and if you still don't get it, then I'm done:

I listed characteristics and events from my life that are typically associated with being masculine in this society in order to point out that, though I meet many of the criteria, I do not always feel masculine; that masculinity (and by extension, all labels) is a social construct which we do not need to feel bad for not fitting neatly into. You have missed the point of my original comment because you became fixated on the fact that I actively partake in eating meat, and now you're attacking my character due to your own misunderstanding (which is beginning to seem intentional).

Your argument is invalid (to this discussion). If you'd like to argue about whether or not it is ethical to consume meat, I suggest you do so elsewhere.

I will say, however, that I have major qualms about the meat industry. This just isn't the place for that discussion.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago

You claim to reject rigid labels like masculinity, yet you still treat them as meaningful enough to center your entire post around. If the point was to show that masculinity is arbitrary, then why reinforce it by measuring yourself against those traits? You’re not just describing your experience, you’re using those traits to justify a sense of identity while insisting identity doesn’t matter.

You accuse me of missing your point, but the pushback wasn’t because you listed masculine-coded traits, it was because you paired meat consumption with manhood and then dismissed criticism of that pairing as irrelevant. You introduced beef as a symbol of masculinity, so the ethical objection is not off-topic; it’s directly responding to your own framing. Rejecting that framing is true masculinity, so maybe that’s why you don’t feel it. Hard to have strength integrity and compassion if you kill yourself because you can’t have a cheeseburger :’(

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Still missing the point. I'm not measuring myself by anything; only stating that society does so.

Have a nice life. Enjoy typing way too much for no reason.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Classic troll behavior, lol. Bye Felicia.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago
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