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meadowlander

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5. I really liked the scene in the fourth episode
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 04:06 PM
Apr 2025

when the parents were reminiscing about how they'd first really noticed each other and it featured the father being a terrible dancer, sliding all over the place in his bowling shoes, doing the splits, and the other kids making fun of him.

Because the incident wasn't supercharged by social media though, he was still able to laugh at himself and not think that any tiny crack in his masculine facade meant that he was a failure as a human being. The stakes were a lot a lower and also it was demonstrated that we don't all have to take ourselves and this masculine/feminine thing so seriously all the time.

I think having a sense of humour about your failings and being able to keep things in perspective is also a very attractive and admirable trait that is potentially being eroded by social media and a lot of the manosphere discourse.

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Excellent post! SharonClark Apr 2025 #1
Problem, conflict, solution. Well done. cachukis Apr 2025 #2
Excellent! SheltieLover Apr 2025 #3
Thanks for this excllent post canetoad Apr 2025 #4
I really liked the scene in the fourth episode meadowlander Apr 2025 #5
Can't say this enough: yardwork Apr 2025 #6
Wow, I think I'm about to be the seventh person to say that this is an excellent post, if I can keyboard fast enough. FadedMullet Apr 2025 #7
Little frozen spermies in test toobbies BoRaGard Apr 2025 #8
I've been a male for all of my almost 80 years and I hate the male-oriented culture. erronis Apr 2025 #9
true DonCoquixote Apr 2025 #12
Excellent! LoisB Apr 2025 #10
Misogyny came first. It has always been with us. We can tamp it way down, but will never eliminate it. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2025 #11
The key is that misogyny should not be cool! Mopar151 Apr 2025 #16
I think in the *very long run it can be defeated to the point that it will effect very few women, and that will no electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #21
History May Help PocatelloLiberal Apr 2025 #13
Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2025 #24
We need to revisit the hero's journey nuxvomica Apr 2025 #14
Well Lilith said, "To hell with you" and left Adam alone in the garden. 1WorldHope Apr 2025 #15
Alpha-male obsession is a narrow cage. Mblaze Apr 2025 #17
... Solly Mack Apr 2025 #18
Well said! GiqueCee Apr 2025 #19
Amen brother. meadowlander Apr 2025 #20
A good, nuanced post. 👍 Like your various examples, too... electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #22
DURec leftstreet Apr 2025 #23
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