Again, I disagree with this, because “socialist masculinity” isn’t backwards in any sense separated from it’s material context of gender and oppression. Muscles and oily, large calves and large beards are not counterrevolutionary, and neither are those who get off to them or whatever, but our insistence on associating them with certain personality traits and behaviors is (and is arguably part of the engine of patriarchy as a whole). I believe allowing this patriarchal engine to simply claim these superficial aesthetics, even implicitly by only allowing their existence as a “transitory period”, would be a step in the wrong direction. Especially when this superficial signifiers would not be counterrevolutionary in any sense when removed from their content in a post-communist world.

Instead, we should try to throw a wrench into this engine, by explicitly disconnecting the aesthetic from its original context. Have big, sweaty, muscled people who wear exclusively aprons and jockstraps work in flower shops as much as possible, and treat people with kindness and care. Have thin, long-haired, body-hair-less wearing bowties in their hair work in car shops and gun ranges and treat people distantly and competitively. Do whatever we can to make people realize these signifiers have no direct material connection to reality, and are only enforced by a complex web of social systems that try to force people into specific genders and specific, tiny roles.

Attempting to interrupt and remove these aesthetics from existence is somewhat revolutionary, sure, but it’s ultimately kind of idealistic in a different way. People already associate positive experiences and joy with the presentation of aesthetics, they are happy looking at them and being around them, and this is likely part of how gender as a social structure entraps them. This cannot be fixed by telling them the aesthetics they like are bad and they should just change their taste through sheer will; It can only be fixed by attempting to sever the connections between those aesthetics and the continuation of oppression, to “free” them and allow them to then grow organically into their own forms of expression and entirely new aesthetics.

DISCLAIMER: I have never read society of the spectacle or anything like that, I just have an attachment to how certain aesthetics look and think that, without any other

Also I think I agree with you in the sense of behaviors and such