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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

Well I guess there wouldn't be much of a "male lonelyness epidemic" for one.

I guess we found our solution, instead of going back in time and killing Reagan we need to make a gaygun and go back in time to give it to him!

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Even if everyone was suddenly turned gay, having grown up in a patriarchal society might still leave many cis men unable to express their emotions, form meaningful connections and do anything effective about their loneliness.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

yes, at first and for a long time while the perceived need for machismo gradually fades away.

hetero-normative social expectations & toxic masculinity are the biggest sources of fuel for male loneliness and the remaining parts can become manageable in a gay dominated world as it becomes clearer and clearer that there will be fewer and fewer people to exploit in search of the capitalist profit motive; thus slowly eliminating the 3rd largest fuel source for loneliness.

[-] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

yes, at first and for a long time while the perceived need for machismo gradually fades away.

I don't think it necessarily would fade away in those circumstances. You can have gay patriarchy. It'd be different than hetero patriarchy, but patriarchy is patriarchy.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

very true, but i'm betting that it's not going to take the same toxic form that it has now.

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, I guess the economic reasons for patriarchy would still be there. Splitting productive wage labor from unpaid labor that reproduces the ability to work would still be helpful to capital.

[-] woodenghost@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Okay, I'm convinced. Let's go ahead and turn everyone gay.

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