#111

I don’t really follow days like this religiously but it’s helped me lots today finding out mental health resources on Twitter - I’m so happy and grateful that most of my male friends IRL are very open emotionally and never feel conditioned to act like and can see right through the cliches of (toxic) masculinity - one friend works on a psychiatric ward and he’s so good at calming those with aggression related conditions, but it’s more society and media that’s conditioned me to sometimes act with the worst, most thin skinned, boorish kind of maleness. I don’t mean but it’s more just sheer cringeworthy insecurity, as recently as 2018 I’d be reluctant about wanting to order a vegan option in a restaurant because other (probably trashy :D) men might think I was a “snowflake” etc

It’s no coincidence that the more I’ve moved away from that the better I’ve got on both IRL and on these forums and that can only be a good thing. So many fellow DiSers helped me a great deal when I had a bit of a MH crisis about 18 months ago and I’ll always be grateful for that :heart:.

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#112

So I’m not really convinced by the idea of an international men’s day per se, particularly after looking up some of the ideas associated with it up thread howevvvveeeerrrrr

I think there is scope to try and define a positive masculinity for the 21st century sort of in keeping with this video

and perhaps International Men’s Day could be a way to reflect on that? Idk

#113

im a man

#114

*I don’t mean misogyny or just being outwardly generally a loudmouth prat but it’s more just sheer, cringeworthy insecurity

#115

I’m a man I drive in my Mercedes
I’m a man I’m sweet, I like the ladies
All the dames they want my babies

#116
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#118

only two of those are correct

#120

Jeff Magnum

#121

tobey maguire?

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#122

Alvin Lucier’s ‘I Am Sitting In A Room’ but it’s Laurence Fox asking “why isn’t there an International Men’s Day?”

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#123

Love contra points so much

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#124

So when’s there a day for Provincial Men then?

#125
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#126

can we just shut men down now please

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#127

Imagine. You’re a young MP and you look for a role model and you plump for Philip Davies! Ringpieces

#128

I want to physically shake any cunt who does that “HOW COME THERE’S SOMETHING FOR X, BUT THERE ISN’T THAT SAME THING FOR NOT-X” argument about literally anything but this is the worst genre. As if it’s some kind of galaxy-brained gotcha rather than a solid indicator of being properly, properly thick.

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#129

Thing is he knows how much of wanker he sounds you can tell from the way he can’t bear to put any enthusiasm into it and is rushing through the script. Knows he’s a prick but doing it anyway.

#130

Always amazes me Ben Bradley is 30 years old. Young for an MP but so very very old to be drawing the conclusions he seems to on a daily basis.

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#131

30?! Hahaha being a Tory certainly ages the fuck out of your doesn’t it?

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#132

It’s all the EVIL

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