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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (6 children)

A wife would know exactly what it means and how to do this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Two people who care about each other will provide all forms of validation and support that someone needs. This is kind of the point of being in a relationship, a partner who makes you feel like [insert thing you want to feel like] when you need it, and you give that validation back to them as they require it.

We seem to have gone severely off-course when we started expecting a world full of uncaring strangers to give us all kinds of validation for things.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (23 children)

Just change King to also say man.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A patient I dealt with had schizophrenia and dementia, "but I'm a man, not a little girl with panties" was his counterargument to everything.

You can only have one cigarette at a time because otherwise you lose them all and run out. "But I'm a man."

You know the doctor says your food needs to be cut up. "Do I look like a little girl to you?"

That's the communal cheese bowl, this is your plate. You can't eat from the communal cheese bowl with a fork. "Do you see me wearing panties?"

Whenever I hear people making these kind of gender essentialist arguments, they just sound pitiably out of touch with reality to me.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Have you asked him how often he thinks about wearing women's underwear?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's potentially worthwhile with someone who is cognizant but just an asshole. For someone with dementia, there's no point

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

In my head I made many cutting remarks. But the reality of this level of cognitive decline is like 90% miserably depressing and only like 10% infuriating. Plus he wouldn't be capable of understanding the criticism anyway.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

As a biological male and someone who identifies as a man, it's pretty weak, IMO, to need someone else to make you feel a particular way.

Are you in control of your feelings, or do you constantly need someone else to reinforce, or induce a feeling in you?

Personally, I'm in control of my feelings, and bluntly, nobody else has control over me. Neither for how I feel, or what I think/do; with the only exception to what I do being governed in part by legality. Eg. If I know a thing isn't legal to do, then I won't do that thing. Beyond the rule of law, I do, think, say, and feel, whatever, and however I want.

To me, having that much control over my own self is what makes me a person living in a free country. Anyone who does not have the ability, like I do, to think, feel, do, and love, whomever and, whatever they want, is someone who I want to support in gaining that right.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The idea of controlling your feelings seems laughable. If you have control they aren't feelings, just thoughts. You cant really control thoughts either, just control what you do with them. Except we know that humans in general don't have great control of our actions either. We just have to live in this comfortable little lie where we have control over ourselves despite all evidence to the contrary in order to maintain a remotely reasonable society, but it's not real any more than your belief that you control your feelings.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People in general like receiving positive feedback. There is no need to assign feedback to gender roles.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

If Men want to feel like Men then they have ways to deal with their insecurity:

Redo their own plumbing, twice. Once to change things and again to fix the problem they caused.

Chop firewood.

Build a furnace that you're only going to use like 4 times, ever.

50 pushups. If not reaching it makes you sad, start skipping numbers.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Redo their own plumbing, twice. Once to change things and again to fix the problem they caused.

I'm in this comment and I don't like it.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Just don't cast shit on a man that's had enough of it from his work or society. Sometimes we just want to feel human.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

A man likes to feel ~~like~~ a man

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but none of this is misandry.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Check the usernames. Someone that claims misandry as their identity is just spreading it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Or maybe we are just sick and tired of fighting the world and don’t want that kind of drama at home with our partner.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (45 children)

I'm stumped at the simple task of trying to imagine what does imply to "feel like a man".

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You listen to Shania Twain’s hit Man! I Feel Like A Woman backwards

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