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Ultimate chad move - convince everyone else your midlife crisis is actually fashion (ArchonOfFlesh)
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hot take : it's because men have to be/are expected by society to be hypercompetant, and any divergence from that is shameful.
"oh, you got hair plugs instead of accepting your baldness? WEAK. PRETENDER."
(half baked expression of thoughts I've had for a while, don't even @ me, just think about it. May be edited a million years from now to express myself better)
it's always patriarchy.
i call this the splashback effect. the opposite of the curbcut effect. of a group oppreses another one, it'll inevitably hurt itself in the process (although only in small ways compared to the ones under their boot).
this is another small way that patriarchy affects men, by demanding they are like that.
you seem to get it. I have a paradoxical observance too : how come transmen are "less fought over"/"accepted as men" more than transwomen for the opposite while this "splashback effect" exists?
Like if a transman has no facial hair, is short, etc they are more readily accepted as "yeah sure it's a guy" than a transwoman that doesn't pass as well, with all the current rage that seems to be happening politically?
again, badly worded, might edit etc.
am a cis bloke, so take my uninformed opinion with a grain of salt, (giving uninformed opinions is part of white cis man culture). but aesthetic standards are much higher for women than men.
to be a woman is a fulltime performance with constant judgements. while a man can be a slob and is still a man.
to pass as a woman, the standards are much higher than passing as a man.
the "Splashback effect" is a term I made up,. wouldn't be surprised if there's an actual term for that for which I'm unaware.