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Their only measure of "manliness" is cruelty (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 days ago by Keld@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Trump is a musical theater fan who dodged the draft, gossips about teen actors love lives, has never worked a day in his life, isn't in shape and has no signifiers of masculinity. He gets to be the pinnacle of masculinity purely because he represents cruelty.

Likewise no matter how grizzled whoever the Dems put up is they will always be effeminate in comparison, no matter how many of their supposed criteria for masculinity they fulfill.

Beyond the dems, none of their political opponents can ever be real men. No socialist is anything but a (gay) effeminate loser, nothing but their unwillingness to be performative cruel will ever be considered.

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[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 38 points 4 days ago

I think it’s because they follow the morality of power, and for them being a man = good.

Like their morality framework is that if you are a loser, you are bad (morally). If you are a winner, you are good.

Men “won” the gender wars. So they are good. Women trying to take space and have “equality” is something a loser would do, thus bad.

Cruelty is for them just another aspect of having power in our world. It’s how you express how much more powerful you are. You can be a dick, you can be arrogant. But if you are cruel and still get away with it? You are truly powerful.

Also, if you are a loser you are not human. Winners are humans, cause humans “won” the jungle survival game.

And so on…