I hope this means less incest porn.

I understood pseudo masculinity without the explanation. I haven’t seen any evidence yet that the term has been confused.

But any term for a gender issue is going to be misconstrued and confused, just look at the term feminism.

Sometimes if you sneeze after a solid kegel routine it clamps and goes sideways onto your thigh.

But so is toxic masculinity. It’s used to describe men being assholes because they’re men, and not because they just happen to be assholes, too.

I’d never heard it before and I understood the implication before they expanded on it. I’m a woman and a feminist who thinks the term toxic masculinity is unsuitable.

Love the term “pseudo-masculinity.” It takes away from the gender slant of toxic masculinity, implies anyone can have it, and makes clear it’s not what masculinity should be.

I didn’t say it was a rational fear.

Look, I support bars making their restrooms gender neutral but I have an irrational fear of making eye contact with a man while he’s using the urinal which makes me extra observant of men at the urinals so I don’t accidentally stare into their eyes. Please just tell me which washroom has the urinals so I can avoid it.

By being Canadian. Y’all can come live in my basement, my little American basement babies.

You’re doing important work here, thank you.

I’m in my 30’s and watched this while zonked with covid. Fuck, best sick week ever. I cried like eight times.

Shout out to Hooty, wish you were my house demon.

I’m pansexual with friends of all genders. I would be delighted if they were all attracted to me, too.

At the same time I’d be pretty pissed off if anyone tried to reduce my close friendships to someone “just waiting their turn” like I’m a damn ride at a faire.

It was fake. It wasn’t even Republican.

Your hungry pigs and professor acid soup can wait till I’m done. I only get one life to eat a human.

I found a whole community of mostly dudes and a few chicks with AI waifus on their own platform. They’re all weirdly supportive and wholesome. I can’t even make fun of them, they’re so nice to me and each other.

Oh good. I don’t follow this com, another comment tipped me off.

While I do enjoy a little bit of chaos and schadenfreude, it would be nice to block out user names. Call out the mistake, not the person.

Most people here are lovely, but it only takes one match to start a fire. Might as well address some bullshit in these comments since I’m gonna get trolled by incels anyway…

side note: I’m not a mod there.

• The women’s com is trans and non-binary inclusive. Anyone who feels at home there (and is respectful) is welcome.

• It’s not all bitching about men. Looking at the last twenty posts, one was about men and two were related to men. We talk about pads and health and essays and positivity memes and do fun activities on fridays.

• I support men making their own support groups. Although the internet itself often feels like a menfolk support group(to me,) I’m sure there are plenty of things an easy to find, curated space, could offer men who want to be just a little more vulnerable, knowing they would be supported by the mods if any toxic women came in to devalue their opinions and experience.

Speaking as someone with recurrent severe depression, my closest friends are the ones who harass me with their love. That said, I would never want someone to try to reach me through my family. Her situation might be different.

Depression is very isolating, it can make you feel unworthy of being around people because you can’t be fun, and you get anxious about making “mistakes.”

My favorite people are the ones who randomly show up, drag me out, ask me for help with something (introvert cheat code,) and buy me games without asking so we can play together.

If she’s an adult, she’s capable of telling someone to back off if it’s too much.