I’m a dude, but I grew up with little sisters and kind of am void of piggish tendencies due to that I think, I realize women aren’t objects at least. Kink is kink and sexuality is sexuality, but I would assume women want to be able to post photos without some nasty ass dude or neckbeard in the comments section commenting about how fat her ass or boobs are or how they would “hit it”. Or walk down the street without some dog trying to hit on her.
I just saw something like this happen on twitter unfortunately and ive seen it life as well from some of friends who I tell to their faces they’re being pigs.
Personally I prefer to identify more with a Bilbo Baggins model of masculinity and I find that helps me navigate the cultural pressures of toxic masculinity
I think thoraboos are hilarious bc in some places “Viking” gender roles were at least partially flipped - Men were considered too dumb and flighty to handle math or money so women were in charge of finances and household economics, while men got an allowance. Women controlled property and could divorce if they wanted to. It was an extremely different cultural and legal environment than the uwu demure viking tradwife a lot of those nerds seem to believe in.
on the other hand they did have a trade in slaves and violence against women was considered a legitimate means of a man insulting another man (e.g. Froki hates Ragnar so Froki might assault Ragnars wife)
The vikings weren’t all that progressive
This is slightly off topic, but this comment has reminded me how funny I think “warrior” dudes are. Like, have you ever met a guy who works a normal-ass job and insists that they are a warrior, as some sort of paean to their fragile sense of masculinity? Even if they take steps to work out or learn a martial art or something, they still spend their days coding, or being a line-cook, or selling cars or whatever normal-ass thing these people do. They go home in the evenings and watch TV or surf the net, the same schlub shit I do all day. You’re not a warrior, dude, you don’t have a warrior spirit inside you. They’re weak. And you know they know. They know if they got pulled out of time and dropped into the days of American settlers expanding westward, they’d be miserable, and die. If they got dropped in the Viking Age as a Dane raider going after some poor bastards in Brittany they’d be fucking terrified, then they’d get dysentery and shit themselves to death.
Even cops. Maybe cops especially. Most cops in this country could not be called warriors by even the loosest definition of the word. Maybe some cop gangs in major cities who do contract killings or whatever, like something from The Shield. But most cops, what the hell do they do all day? Plenty of them work desk jobs, right? And most of them are on traffic? Sitting in their cruisers, jacking off and stuffing their faces, generating revenue for their municipality through speeding tickets. That’s not what warriors do.
Unless you are a frontline infantry soldier in an active warzone or, like, a street enforcer for a gang, you’re not a damn warrior. If they could all just accept that I think they’d be a lot happier, and probably a lot less violent.
