"What makes a man?" other than just being one, was once an aspirational question with its ups and downs

Awwww they saved the shark 🥹 He can be back with his family now, if you couldn’t tell, I love sharks

sexism on my racist app again

Ehh what? Which sex is attacked here? Men?

eh yeah men
stereotypes are bad

Not if they're good, noble and inspires courage. Just like it's good for a strong man to have some brains, it's good for a brainy man to have some trust in what his body can produce. It helps with general insecurities too. Notice how I'm not advertising a body type

men aren't noble, good, and don't inspire courage. some PEOPLE(notice not only men) do, others don't.
the idea that all men are filled with positive masculine qualities is not true

Positive stereotypes were never a generalization, but an aspiration. If you can't be part of a group of men who saves a shark, you can sit back and admire them just like times where everything wasn't about you all the time.
This situation is particularly gendered cus the same group of women with the same borderline self destructive courage, wouldn't be able to do the task, and these guys aren't even overwhelmingly tough to look at. But you can boo that fact and think it's a criticism even though it's just reality hand the fact tat something is gendered, doesn't equal competition.
The more you think men and women are (or could be) the same, the more anger you feel when they aren't. You get defeated and nihilistic and basically ruin your mental spirit in hopelessness. I've been exactly there in my teens and twenties - extremely idealistic and bitter

Not every male aspires to have stereotypically masculine traits. Of course I admire the men saving the shark.

"Positive stereotypes were never a generalization, but an aspiration."
really? if a guy aspires to be noble, smart, and strong, he should aspire to have those qualities because they are good, healthy qualities - not because he feels like he has to because he is male.

"This situation is particularly gendered cus the same group of women with the same borderline self destructive courage, wouldn't be able to do the task..."
ok but also no. sure women are usually weaker than men but that fact doesn't make the shark-saving a gendered situation.

"The more you think men and women are (or could be) the same, the more anger you feel when they aren't."
1) Men and women are different. that's a fact. generally, they have a lot of differences. but they also have a lot more similarities. their differences should not make them feel entirely exclusive. men can and will have feminine qualities, while women can and will have masculine qualities.
2) I'm not mad about it.

"You get defeated and nihilistic and basically ruin your mental spirit in hopelessness."
alright idk about you but this conversation isn't bothering me nearly that much. I'm barely emotionally invested in it at all, actually.

mainly what I meant to say was that the meme would've been just fine if it was just "watch these brave guys save this shark" instead of making the situation about "men"..

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sorry for the yap.

The noble, smart, and strong stereotype works with this gendered situation. Some gendered situations suck tits, so we give it an ism. It's rare for me to see a so gendered situation, so it was special to me. That's the twist I wanted to add to the vid. Finally men being men instead of toxic - an act only men can perform (not that I ever look for that). There's situations where you'll prefer a group of women to handle it - for this I'm happy it was a group of guys

I feel inferior to these guys.... rightfully so

These are true men
Reviving the danger in the world
It's enough to make a grown man cry, and that's ok

Yes. The types who do the shitty work. Women are right in being more careful - their general situation demands it, and it's their burden. I will always sympathize with it, even when they don't understand ours. I've managed to explain the male condition to even feminists, and twice they friended me immediately. I guess I managed to talk about it in a technical manner - like a faint memory, cus in my adult life I started getting suiters myself

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