Thread by @dadthatwrites, I'm tired of people talking about what "real men" do and don't [...]

I& #39;m tired of people talking about what "real men" do and don& #39;t do.

A fucking thread.

"Real men don& #39;t shave."

Bullshit. Your face pubes mean nothing. It& #39;s nothing more than face pubes. I love my face pubes but that& #39;s all they are to me. They symbolize absolutely nothing.

"Real men eat meat."

Fucking dumb. Your diet choice doesn& #39;t mean a fucking thing. Your "manliness" is not proportional to the amount of meat you consume. This is dumb as hell.

"Real men wear <certain clothes>."

Again with this shit. Wear whatever the fuck you want. Clothes are practical and expressive and they don& #39;t have a fucking thing to do with how "manly" you are.

I could go on and on with these, but the point is that the idea of "manliness" has become a fucking joke. It& #39;s turned into a security blanket for some men, and a weapon for others.

Now before I continue, let me be clear that this is neither to say women don& #39;t have to deal with similar shit, nor to diminish their struggles, nor to draw comparisons. I& #39;m just speaking on what I know.

Let& #39;s talk about dick size. We like to zing guys with flawed personalities by saying "must have a small dick." Hell I& #39;ve done it, but lately I& #39;ve quit and I& #39;ll tell you why: It just makes the problem worse.

The whole idea that the size of your dick is somehow linked to your identity as a "man" or your worth is fucked up. It means nothing. Guys listen to me...it& #39;s meaningless. You have no control of your dick size. You never did. You shouldn& #39;t be ashamed.

Just being surrounded by comments like "Oh he& #39;s a douche he must have a little dick," it has to make some guys wonder. Hell a lot of these guys probably shaped their identity around the idea of "big dick energy" or whatever the fuck it was called.

It& #39;s just fucking dumb. Your dick size doesn& #39;t mean anything. It has no bearing on who you are as person. If someone accuses you of having a "small dick" ask them what that has to do with anything. It. Means. Nothing.

Let& #39;s talk about manliness as a security blanket. Men like to ascribe a bunch of characteristics to the nebulous thing called "manliness." And it& #39;s usually dumb shit like what I mentioned above. That way, they can just exhibit those characteristics and be perceived as "manly."

But when someone comes along and undermines it, oh fuck! WHAT! That manly man doesn& #39;t eat meat? "HE& #39;S GAY!" "LITTLE DICK! LITTLE DICK!" They feel threatened! You& #39;ve taken their security blanket away! Fucking stupid.

That goes hand-in-hand with what I mentioned prior about weaponizing the concept of manliness. Insecure men like to browa beat other men with their definition of "manliness." It& #39;s like a metaphorical "dick measuring contest."

You& #39;ll see some stupid meme, for example, of a guy walking with a girl on a sidewalk and he& #39;s not on the side nearest the street, and the caption will read something like "REAL MEN know what& #39;s wrong with this." Fucking dumb.

"Real men are strong!"

Replace "strong" with any characteristics. Wise. Respectful. It& #39;s not that I disagree entirely but when you say this it sounds like "manly men" have a monopoly on "strength."

So when a woman or someone who isn& #39;t "traditionally masculine" (ugh don& #39;t get me started) comes along who also posesses those qualities, you& #39;ll hear dumb shit like "She has a dick."

This is going on and on, and honestly I could keep going. So let me sum it up. There isn& #39;t really such thing as a "real man." Stop injecting your insecurities into the definition of "manliness" and deal with those insecurities properly.

And while I& #39;m at it, stop injecting your preferences into the definition of a "real man." You like beards and trucks and abs? Fine. Someone else probably doesn& #39;t. That& #39;s what makes the world go around.

If I were forced at gunpoint to define "real man," the best thing could come up with is that it& #39;s a male who isn& #39;t threatened or influenced by this silly bullshit. And that definition excludes most of us, myself included.

Anyway, I& #39;m fucking done with this rant. Fuck! I want to fucking break something. Also I& #39;m not a fan of setting Kafka traps but here it is. I& #39;m willing to bet guys who get butthurt by this post are the same kind of guys I& #39;ve described. Well I& #39;m done.

Sorry for all the fucking typos. I rage typed it all without proofreading. The typos are raw emotions. Fuck off.

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