@thefinancialfreedomgirl: If we’re going to critique rigid notions of masculinity, we can’t then make fun of and project assumptions onto men who don’t conform. Even when something is a joke, we gotta ask ourselves why we think it’s funny in the first place 🥸 #performativemale #feminism #manosphere
absolutely 💯 but LeBron (whom I love) deserved the laughs for it lmao (it wasn't a big deal it was just funny)
2026-08-21 19:46:21
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user59949575741 :
I think people invent these bottomless lists of requirements and icks because no one knows how love actually feels, or they’ve long since forgotten. They try to invent a Frankenstein’s monster out of dozens or hundreds of filters but it never fulfills what love is meant to.
2026-07-23 03:41:02
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gallenfier :
Anytime I hear “performative, most, all, etc” that is being applied to a group I assume I am about to hear bull
2026-07-14 15:52:48
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Jason :
because it's safer to point to men as the problem
2026-08-19 14:39:56
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Craig Ethan :
I think judgment of the performative mail thing is kind of about timing in the Zeitgeist. like you didn't see guys doing this stuff until after they were told they were allowed to do it. and when you do things because you are told that you can do them, that is performative.. rather than doing them and not giving a crap what other people think
2026-08-19 18:14:37
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Matt :
thank you. seeing this as I have my book opened in front of me... I should go back to reading.
2026-07-10 16:33:06
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idl3andy :
I think of it like, if a couple has a baby, the roles of mother and father are a little irrelevant. They both will have to 'parent' the baby in the same ways at times. It's not feminine for the father to burp the baby and sing lullabies, it's just his turn.
Just the same, I can read in the park, cook, shop, even admire the color pink and still be sure of the man I am.
2026-07-26 08:02:20
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Evan Pickering - Author :
You are 100% correct on all this.
2026-07-22 03:50:14
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Salmon :
the thing that did it for me was how anything that was considered as a "performative man" it was a man doing something feminine. did not gaf about any "performative man" opinions after I realized that. it started calling out a small subset of guys acting in order to get female/women's attention. then it just turned into "hey guys that's gay stop doing that" basically.
2026-08-05 14:00:45
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Curryfriedhaldol :
Men get more grace for being shitty than they do for trying to be better.
2026-07-21 21:31:43
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Churder :
And it just gave regular homophobic men more ammo
2026-08-21 19:41:46
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Super Secret Side Account :
It’s not just hobbies, I expressed some very basic feminist ideas because, duh women have it rough, and I got dogged on for being performative.
2026-08-07 05:56:04
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sckb9 :
Yea men typically get ridiculed if they try to step outside of the box of masculinity
2026-08-17 00:31:31
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Give me the rock :
I wouldn’t necessarily say it was regressive because nobody was making fun of the individual parts of the trend. Like people weren’t making fun of Matcha people weren’t making fun of quarter zips. They were making fun of the person who does all of those things, quarter zips Matcha, the fake glasses the reading on the subway, the tone of voice that sort of thing it wasn’t necessarily making fun of those traits. It was making fun of the person who does them performatively
2026-08-17 06:06:15
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backforthefirsttimeagain :
When not whenever
2026-08-12 04:05:08
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_pablo_pablo_ :
I agree, but when I was hearing you mention Shawn Mendes I remember as an elder millennial I feeling this way about Ricky Martin. lol
anyway, yeah, agree
2026-06-27 21:06:37
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Ryan :
Dude as someone from NY I absolutely hate the performative male trend thing because it’s very real and annoying sometimes lol.
2026-07-31 23:35:20
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duraace205 :
women might like the idea of sensitive men, until they come across one. that is not what women are picking or reading about in their romance books
2026-07-21 08:33:24
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rroche :
The performative part is that they are dressing a certain way or reading a certain book not because they want to, but because they think women will like it. It’s true though it’s not fair to the people who actually like to read though 😂
2026-07-24 06:38:42
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🏳️⚧️Mika shelly🏳️🌈🇮🇱 :
just because people know there's a patriarchy doesn't mean they're actively trying to dismantle it. for example, just because people know it's good to eat a balanced diet doesn't mean that they're going to do it.
2026-06-26 00:49:31
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Guyg :
How dare you bring up a valid point 😡
2026-06-22 23:09:09
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dopella :
And the pendulum swings back the other way 😢
2026-06-22 23:07:26
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Ryan Walsh :
My favorite free time hobby these days reading at the local cafe. I had NO IDEA anyone had ANY thoughts about this!!! What’s the performative part all about?!
2026-06-27 00:38:28
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Caleb 🇻🇦 :
You missed the point of the bit. The performative man wasn’t being genuine. He was being manipulative through passive posturing.
2026-08-19 18:56:20
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Anxious :
The thing is they’re not being themselves, they’re catering to what’s popular to women, there’s a reason they were wearing the same exact stuff
2026-07-23 11:24:42
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