Clément Mangin

La culture du char à son meilleur. Moins je ferais un audit sur les automobilistes, pas sur les pistes cyclables.

The very premise is false.

‘Toxic masculinity’ has been conceptualized precisely because men oppress themselves through harmful expectations, which can also be enforced by women who have internalized them.

Once again, reading bell hooks wouldn’t hurt.

You can call out being weak, being an ass, being a bully all you want, but nobody gets to define and gatekeep manhood just as nobody gets to define and gatekeep womanhood.

You can only neutralize them, in a psych ward or in a cage.

We really hit on something with the 12 year old theory of governance because that’s really the entire political project. It’s being 12 years old and not even normal 12 year olds but real pieces of shit 12 year olds

L’enfer, c’est ces autres-là en particulier

No, you are using an ad hominem attack to counter a point about the toxicity of a joke, and you can still go fuck yourself for that.

Do we get to bully NYT writers, BlueSky execs and JD Vance, or is it just punching down for sociopathic sadists?

I would have expected a Butlerian to not fall for the gender essentialist bullshit that would have us believe that women are perfect victims and men are eternal oppressors, and to question how toxic expectations of gender performances are hurtful to anybody, but maybe we didn’t read the same Butler

It’s been decades since feminists have opened discussions about the ways patriarchy and toxic masculinity also hurt men, even if in very different ways than they hurt women.

If you expect men to be always horny stallions, lest they be called gay, you won’t like what you’ll get.

You are literally responding under a post that calls a man ‘gay’ because he doesn’t want to bang a hot chick.

If you don’t see homophobia when it’s right under your nose, and how enforcing toxic gender expectations can be harmful, get the fuck out of my face and go read some bell hooks maybe.

Generative AI is ghoulish in both its inputs and outputs. It's digital colonialism that steals and desacrate for profit.

Its bubble cannot burst soon enough.

Could opening the door to call underperforming men ‘gay’ be problematic? Could casually gatekeeping masculinity over sex performance potentially backfire?

I wonder if there are overarching principles around consent that should apply to everyone equally regardless of gender, and if enforcing toxic stereotypes about male sex drive plays right into patriarchy’s hand.

En bons pères de famille, les patriarches caquistes savent ce qui est bon pour la maisonnée.

Comme dirait JD Vance, quand avez-vous montré de la gratitude?

"Hey this girl doesn't want to have sex with this super duper hot dude, she must be a lesbian somehow!"

Sure, a man could not possibly have a lower sex drive than their partner, and could not possibly be pressed to perform his marital duties against his will by any woman, because <insert some gender essentialist bullshit>.

I don’t care about the initial story, I care about the harmful joke being made out of it, and the shit it has enabled.

And I’ve been doing just that. Feel free to help.

In the meantime I see homophobic comments calling the man gay, and people gatekeeping manhood based on sex drive, throwing aces under the bus.

Is that the price you are willing to pay to pile on an asshole? Don’t you have less harmful ways to express your scorn?

If you gatekeep manhood, do men get to gatekeep womanhood?

Ah, there it is, homophobia to complete the shitty picture.

There is no assumption to make to assert that belittling someone for their lack of sexual drive despite the sexiness of their partner is stupidly harmful in itself and borders on rapey.

Women cry all the time about having to match men’s abusive expectations about intimacy, then proceed to shame man who does the same.

See how that works? Self-awareness isn’t your strongest suit, is it?

“She’s not even that pretty, she should be thankful to have the honour to suck his dick”

Ffs.

“What, his dick is magnificent, he wants to go down on you all the time, and you have the gal to say no? How dare you?”

Do you even realize how you sound?

Et le pire dans tout ça, c'est que ces idiots font preuve de plus de sens critique à propos de cette administration que le Washington Post ou New York Times ne le font encore à ce jour.

Kindly go fuck yourself with your armchair psychoanalysis.

No amount of training could ever prepare the brain for such mental gymnastics; it must have ended up in a purée that ran out of their ears long ago, the sole remaining cerebral functions being survival and aggression.

It may very well be bullshit (quite probable even), but that doesn’t legitimize joking about how could anyone say ‘no’ to someone like Nicole Kidman, and how we would totally bang her were we in his shoes.

Not unlike the arrogance of believing one could never fail to meet standards one holds others to, eh?