• @mindbleach
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    34 months ago

    For a lot of them it’s about being gay or ace and deep, deep in denial. Masculinity as a toxic goal says they gotta be a real manly man, as judged by arbitrary rules ranging from archaic to stupid to just plain nonsense. Failure to uphold all those contradictory goals means someone’s gonna revoke their penis license.

    The guy who wrote The Game has a deeply telling passage that’s like ‘a vagina’s just a wet hole, right?,’ and that page might as well come with a collection of queer flag stickers for taking bets about how exactly this dude is not straight. Some of these future fascists don’t even know why they’d want sex, except that they’ve been told to.

    The most charitable possible reading is that they figure it’s when everything will snap together and make sense. Like post-nut clarity is literal enlightenment so long as there’s a woman, y’know, adjacent.

    The least charitable reading is that they don’t think other people are real.