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Funny thing: only ever heard women say this

But maybe you could still pretend I am a strong man every once in a while anyway? As a treat?
no... oh... okay...

Normalize feeling like a man as somebody who is given space to feel anything beyond anger or shame. A man needs to feel like he can talk about things on his mind at any given time, to anybody he trusts. A man is somebody who can cry when he is hurting, and it be okay; that he won’t be labeled as weak or a coward.

I mean it’s right there in the quote. They want to feel like a man. They don’t actually want to be one.

Geekandmisandry. Misandry ie. someone who hates men.

Well at least you're open about it. Many aren't when they attack men.

Here's the thing about "toxic masculinity". Some people are toxic. Women and men tend to express that toxicity in different ways. Attacking an entire gender for the behaviour of the worst is stereotyping.

More broadly it's part of the modern notion that we are on teams and that the other team is bad.

Pride come before the fall