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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
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- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
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- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
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Why do you think those men make it a point of pride not to ask for help? It's because they've internalized the subtle (and not-so-subtle) messaging that they've received since childhood that asking for help is weakness, and weakness is bad, because you're a man so you're supposed to be strong and know how to do everything by yourself.
Social norms and individual behaviors are a chicken and the egg situation. Yes, societal norms are made up of individual behaviors. However, those behaviors are also influenced by societal norms. And often, society punishes any deviation from those norms.
It's literally the same process that teaches women to do the things that basically all of the feminist literature ascribes to societal norms and internalized messaging. It's the same process. So why do people always try to invalidate it whenever someone brings up the male side of that coin?