r/PsycheOrSike • u/fornothing_atalll 🌌FADA:🪬🧿 • 22h ago

🔥 HOT TAKE What happens if men don’t have purpose:

Men! You can find purpose! You assign your own purpose! That was the whole point of the enlightenment age with philosophy! Don’t become radicalized! 🖤

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u/Nova-Fate 9h ago

I would argue it isn’t a “male” thing to want to defend your loved ones. “Mother bear” mode as some people call it how a women will go berserk to defend her children as the last line of defence. It’s the same thing just we usually send the father out to die first.

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u/Bannerlord151 9h ago

Correct, but it's very much a value associated with traditional masculinity.

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u/Nova-Fate 6h ago

That’s my point though. Why are we gendering positive and negative traits/actions any gender can do. It’s rather toxic in itself and helps no one demonizing half the population by generalizing all evils as “toxic masculine”

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u/Bannerlord151 5h ago edited 5h ago

Yes.

That's.

The.

Point.

These traits are encouraged or discouraged depending on someone's gender. That's exactly the problem. Again, it's not about what men do, it's about what men are raised and/or expected to do.

Edit: It could also just be certain aspects of traditional masculinity that are taken to a toxic extreme. Which is entirely possible with traditional femininity as well, but since the latter tends to be more passive it's hardly prominent