A number of commentators today are noting the attempt of the Trump regime and its epigones to spin the tariff madness (and destruction) as boys being boys, a favorite theme of Republicans, since one can hardly blame boys for behaving like boys. Bless their hearts, behaving badly is just what men do after all, Republicans love to inform us.

On this topic, see Media Matters on Fox News' spin of the tariffs as "manly."

#Trump #tariffs #ToxicMasculinity #destruction
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https://www.mediamatters.org/five/fox-news-chyron-trumps-manly-tariffs

As Evan Hurst notes, Vera Papisova spent a year dating alt-right men to find out what makes them tick (this is so difficult to figure out?) and ended up comculding that on the whole they're “erratic, violent and incapable of managing their emotions." But, get this, "we" are somehow responsible that they're that way, since "we" have pushed them into isolation.

Himpathy much?

#MAGA #Trump #AltRight #masculinity #himpathy #ToxicMasculinity

https://www.wonkette.com/p/overrun-by-feral-cats-tabs-monday

#immigrants
#criminals
#toxicmasculinity
#lookinthemirror

As someone taking the opposite path from the below image:

I navigated it most of my life by constantly and obsessively managing my threat presence. It felt like a constant battle with the toxicity of other men. I had my guard up not because there was some threat of women assaulting me, but because watching their guard go up around me felt like being stabbed in the gut, like a lifeline getting cut off.

It took trauma and ego death for me to really start building an actual community for myself. I had bits and pieces I had gathered carefully and with great effort, but all that toxicity kept me from knowing what to do with it.

Now, even later, transition has been a massive weight lifted. (For those in the closet or eggs cracking: people clocking you doesn't make much difference here, if they put up that anti-creep guard around you they're a bitch anyways)

I feel like I can breathe. Connection is so much more casually there. I can see it in people's eyes, I can be in a crowd of strangers and I feel drastically less alone.

Unfortunately, those years of malnourished pain don't just disappear. I still have all of those threat management patterns, I feel like I'm scarred and sometimes even bleeding from that. There's a caution in me, afraid that people will misinterpret, that this wonderful person I want to make friends with will abruptly shut down on me and then disappear from my life if I relax too much, if I'm too open... I still feel like I'm emotionally walking on tip toes...

Toxic Masculinity Snowflakes
https://youtu.be/sP2Kr5frFiU

"Protecting girls" from trans people:

"Hall “screamed and shouted” at the player “you’re a fucking boy and shouldn’t be playing in a girls side...”.

"After the abused player left the field in tears, her father approached Hall informing him he could not speak that way to his daughter, to which Hall reaffirmed his belief that the abused player was a boy and should not be playing in a girls team."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2025/03/28/rosslyn-park-fc-cobham-rfc-under-12s-transgender-abuse/

Actual "grooming" threat: Far-Right Manfluencers Grooming Lost Boys
https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/how-far-right-manfluencers-are-grooming

* Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate
* rise in domestic abuse/physical violence/terrorism

#TransLivesMatter #TransRights #WomensRights
#HegmonicMasculinity #misogyny #manfluencers #JoeRogan #AndrewTate #NickFuentes #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #GOP #ToxicMasculinity #paternalism #incel #IMVE
#Trump #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide

CAVE: collaborate/advocate/vote/educate

Transgenocide: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

"What could be more masculine and cool than selling out vulnerable communities and women to impress the alpha male?" What indeed!
#techbros #orangeturd #toxicmasculinity

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers

"Tätermachung vs Objektivierung – Die ausgebliebene Emanzipation des Mannes"

Ein philosophischer Artikel über Vorurteile zwischen den Geschlechtern. Darin beschreibe ich die Folgen typischer Verhalten, die Benzin ins Feuer des Patriarchats kippen. Und wie man dem entgehen kann.

https://blog.dominik-dammer.de/tatermachung-vs-objektivierung-die-emanzipation-des-mannes