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mxluc1.bsky.social
MX-LUC1F3R
@mxluc1.bsky.social
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They/he. Marginally competent furry doodler. Occasional sass queen. De-rez the oligarchy.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 6h
Trump emerged as their Peter Pan - The Eternal Child placed at the head of a band of children to convince themselves that their childish bravado and puffery were actually adulthood.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 6h
They became like a feral version of Neverland's Lost Boys, indulging themselves on the toxic candy of the Internet without someone to show them healthy alternatives. The "good old days" of the 50s gave them something tangible, but even that model is a farce. A suit and hat do not make a man.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 6h
They looked to fictional models and idolized characters from shows like Peaky Blinders. And no surprise, because the Internet is driven by toxicity more so than healthy discourse and models. Anger, outrage, and insult get the clicks.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 6h
Lacking models of healthy masculinity, they felt lost. The messaging around them was not that there were healthy alternatives but that masculinity itself was just bad. Their only role models like Musk, Tate, and others were just older boys with a good grift and resources.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 6h
I saw this a lot on 4chan. Young men - still boys, really - who set unrealistic standards in physique by trying to model themselves after DBZ characters. Boys who would work on their squat and bench press then wonder how that didn't make them feel confident enough to talk to girls.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 7h
When he's gone, open up the White House to the people. Tell them to bring their sledgehammers and safety goggles and come prepared for an HGTV-style home renovation demolition. Let the American people have the joy of busting up his trashy patio.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 16h
JD is pulling that "boys will be boys" crap that gets rolled out whenever some guy rapes someone.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 17h
Thanks @bsky.app. Throwing sports into my refreshed discovery feed no matter how much I try to curate it out is a great way for you to demonstrate you've got nothing worthwhile left to show me for that moment and it's time to go do other things. It's shaved a ton off my screen time!
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 18h
So PedoFelon47 is watching videos from 2020 and thinking it's modern day Portland and getting ideas for punishing California by watching... The Rock???
a man in a suit and tie is screaming at another man in a suit and tie .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is screaming at another man in a suit and tie .
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 22h
Also, stuff like this surges in times of strife and uncertainty. It may be less Christianity is on the rise by choice but, rather, from fear. Not that it matters to them. By hook or by crook, you know.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 22h
Spotify threw a couple Christian songs into my discovery playlist this week, so that percent is kinda sus if they're pumping it at the folks who don't even want it.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 23h
This means they cannot open up about the diversity of their outlooks and experiences. They cannot support each other in awakening to how "manhood" and "masculinity" as prescribed are a lie.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 23h
And to say men cannot share deeply, love each other fiercely - be that romantic, sexual, or even platonic - keeps each one disconnected. They cannot "compare notes" on their experience other than in socially-sanctioned ways, which is largely "not at all."
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 23h
metaphorically, to keep themselves in line. If men who don't see themselves as measuring up keep themselves small for fear of their differences then they never become empowered enough to challenge the status quo.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 23h
These institutions and individuals know, however, that they cannot be as overt with men. And so they assert and sell a vision of masculinity that assures that being a "real man" keeps those who would similarly question, rebel, and assert individuality step on their own necks,
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 23h
The idea of being stoic, independent, and strong yet "humble before God" is a concept that keeps people cowed before the church - thus securing it's power base against those who would rebel and present new visions of how a person can be.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 23h
The problem is that none of these things are "manhood" or "masculinity." What you wear is an aesthetic and possibly a social norm (think business suit vs. the "nice dress" joke leveraged against what Asian immigrants wore in the early days.)
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 23h
In those comments, the men writing in espoused the same tired old vision of "what it means to be a man" - the aesthetics of the 1950s, men wearing suits and hats, references to Gary Cooper and men who were the old, grizzled sailors yet clutching their hats in their hands to be "humble before God."
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 23h
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Kind of reminds me of something I jotted down the other day after reading a blog about masculinity, being someone who works clinically with men and hears a lot of this, and more specifically the stuff I saw in the comments section. 🧵
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 1d
You really should do a Tarot deck.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 1d
How long before they claim it was there from the Biden administration?
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 1d
33% of Americans looked at a guy who was such a financial loser that he couldn't even keep a casino afloat and said, "Yep! Sign me up!" The only thing he's been successful at is conning people into thinking he's successful.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 1d
Also, sad and pathetic that ICE is LARPing a bit that wouldn't be out of place in a Mel Brooks movie or Monty Python skit.
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 1d
If you get so offended by being called a Nazi-lover that you seize a guy in a giraffe costume on public property for calling you a Nazi-lover... guess what? You're a Nazi.

"Those who are offended by something are most often those who deserve to be offended by it." Derek R Audette
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MX-LUC1F3R @mxluc1.bsky.social · 1d
This feels like one of those episodes of M*A*S*H when there's a ceasefire and talks and everyone starts getting hopeful. Then the episode ends with them in surgery, stuffing soldiers' guts back in place while shells explode in the distance and the credits roll silently.
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