Hell, watch some gay porn and you’ll see this. We’re not all drag queens and Sassy Gay Best Friends. We love masculinity-sometimes to a fault. If you’re gathering with queer people in meatspace, you’re gonna see pretty quickly that queer male culture idolizes masculinity in the real world. Yes, I am fully saying this is largely a Terminally Online problem. Rejection of queer masculinity is also largely-but not solely-a problem among people whose only contact with queer folk is online. They’re just human beings who human slightly differently than you. They’re not threatening, they’re not disgusting, they’re not somehow dangerous just by virtue of being open about their sexuality and sexual desire. One of the best things you can do is to help bring them back. You aren’t seeing these men because they’ve been forced out of spaces THEY CREATED. None of this touches on the rather large queer kink communities around “men in uniform.” Military, police, construction, I can’t tell you how many strip nights I’ve been to at a local gay bar with a guy dressed as a sexy firefighter getting absolutely swamped with dollar bills and lap dance requests. They will readjust your spine, your touch starvation, and your entire outlook on life. I don’t know how true it is, but I can confirm every bear I’ve ever met gives amazing hugs. Literally “I’m big and hairy!” In the 00s there was a stereotype(?) that bears were also super-cuddly. He’s too young to be a bear.) The furriness and the beards and the age and the bellies ARE THE POINT. (I said “most” because the guy in the sunhat is technically a cub. These dudes (well, most of these dudes)? They’re bears. that's the point when i make these kinds of posts. please accept masc enbies, butches, bears, and masculine trans men with the same kindness, love, and passion that you do neutral and feminine people. just know that when i make positivity posts it is to remind us all that masculinity/manhood and queerness are not opposites and that you do not have to be a feminine man or masc person to be viewed/seen/heard as queer.Ĭhasing men, masculine people, and masculinity out of queer spaces isn't helping anyone currently and won't help anyone down the line. you're made to feel like you need to walk a tight rope feeling like you're inherently out of place, as if you existing and being masculine or a man in queer spaces makes others uncomfortable inherently. It is very difficult to exist in queer spaces as a hyper masculine person & a man. The point of my masculinity and male positivity posts are to underline that masculinity and manhood are seen as a threat or in direct opposition to queerness, and that often times in order to be seen as queer you have to be partially or wholly feminine or gender neutral, or express your manhood in a feminine or gender neutral way in order to no longer be threatening, invasive, or a problem. The sky is full, fucking FULL, of stars, and you’ve never seen them. Your ancestors looked at the night sky and said “surely, that is where the gods must live.” And you might be lucky if you can see hardly more than a handful of stars. It is not the sky that inspired constellations. The sky the vast vast majority of us grew up with is not the sky that inspired us to look up. Seeing a perfectly dark night, no clouds, not a hint of light pollution? That’s a fucking religious experience. So, so few people have see the sky in all its glory and it’s not sad. People talk about how you can’t see stars in the city and yeah, that’s true, but their concept of “seeing stars” is being able to make out orion’s belt. It is so hard to explain to people that what they think is a proper night sky is fucking pathetic. I’ve been in the middle of the ocean at night and now live in texas and it is so hard to explain to people that no, they have not ever seen the night sky.
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