He's eating it with a spoon so no one can say he eats bananas for the shape
If you're a 40 year old grown ass adult you can do whatever the fuck you like. Man cards are for insecure idiots who need reassurance.
I think it's so funny that these toxic masculinity types all pay for a little blue participation trophy
I mean...maybe the two guys being talked about are just gay.
And what is manlier than doing it with another man?
Doing it with two men.
im confused is the guy in the second picture the one from the first tweet?
Jason just needs clarification
There's a lot of gay ways to eat a banana...
But I can't imagine a gayer way someone would legitimately try to eat a banana than with a spoon.
Like, being ridiculous, sure, chopsticks. But maybe doing this but mashing it up with a bobba straw till it was a smoothie and drinking it
If you are a man over 40 attending a Taylor Swift concert it's highly possible you have a teenage daughter.
Caring for your kids interests is GAY men!
-twitter blue user & divorced twice
My brother actually gets this a lot from other fathers. They apparently can't comprehend a world where a man with two daughters might actually give a shit about what their daughters like to do, and take an active interest in those things.
Our local Scout troop closed in part, I'm told, because parents treated it more like a daycare for a few hours rather than something to be involved in and do WITH their kids. The troop felt they were no longer fulfilling their mission and decided to dissolve.
We weren't involved in the troop at all but I still found that news really disappointing. I'm a busy guy but I still try to make time for my kids.
As someone whose father didn’t give a shit about his daughter, please tell your brother he is a kick ass dude and give him a hug from this internet stranger.
I love the "man card" metaphor because the more you interrogate it the worse it gets. It implies that his masculinity is so insubstantial that he needs a special card to validate it, like a Linus Blanket or something, which in turn is a self-defeating act.
The Man Card Paradox is that holding a Man Card automatically disqualifies you from holding a Man Card.
I went to a Lourde concert.
Because Run the Jewels was opening.
What now?
Lorde and RTJ are both great. If you enjoyed Lorde but were afraid to admit it, that'd be the only thing revoking your man card.
I did actually really enjoy Lourde! I wasn’t too sure what to expect TBH, I knew Royals and I knew the South Park parody, but that was it going in. She’s great!
I keep my man card in my purse and my woman card in my pockets
I am always fascinated how the man who is strong enough in his convictions to do whatever the hell he wants is considered the "weak" one whereas the "macho" shit is afraid of his own shadow and that some other man may not like what he's doing.
In the 90s, especially in high school environments, homophobia wasn’t just common, it was socially reinforced. Gay was used as an insult, casually and constantly. People rarely questioned it. Teachers didn’t intervene unless things turned violent, and even then, the issue addressed was the aggression, never the prejudice. It was an era when appearing different, even slightly, could make you a target. Most people avoided standing out if they could help it.
During that time my grandma gave me a pink terrycloth nightgown. On her it was a nightgown, but on me it fit more like a long shirt. I thought it was amusing and comfortable, so I wore it regularly without giving it much weight.
Each time someone hurled gay slurs at me, I replied, “I’m secure enough not to care what other people think. Can you say the same?” They usually followed up with more immature remarks, which I’d call out too. The problem wasn’t what I wore, it was that I wasn’t afraid to wear it.
In the 90s
Being a bit optimistic, eh?
The manliest thing a man can do is whatever the hell he wants.
I think worrying about if your actions will "lose your man card" is the surest way to "lose your man card."
The insecurity is pathetic
There are very few things more manly than having the courage to do something "unmanly" in public.
My work has guys who have really high toxic masculinity. Off the top of my head, some of the things they complain about not being man enough are: umbrellas, gluten free, and mushrooms
The umbrella one always cracks me up. Lookin at these wet fools in the rain when I'm nice and dry. Such a strange hill to die on.
I personally don't use umbrellas cause I just put up the hoodie I wear and walk around like normal. But yeah, it has nothing to do with masculinity
I can hear the mongoloids now...
Hurr hurr, mushroom looks like dick. U ghey.
Glad I left the presence of that insufferable bullshit when I left high school. That really sucks you have to listen to that garbage
Yup, got em here too. We get provided either lanyards or extendable clips for our badges at work. Overheard a group of contractors saying wearing the clips made you gay. Its the dumbest shit I've heard. How can wearing an ID badge be anything?
Wearing the clip on your pants makes way more sense since the badge readers are all at waist height.
So where do they put their badges? Up their asses?
I can understand (NOT AGREE) how umbrellas and gluten free fit into their twisted view on what is 'manly'; using external sources to cope with difficulties. But mushrooms? The fuck? Just man up and eat them, they're delicious shakemysmheadmh
Mushrooms look too phallic to put it in a man's mouth
I’m pretty sure taking your daughter to a Taylor swift concert is just good parenting
What does this "surrender your man card" even mean? I must transition to be a woman? So much for protecting people from being "force-transed" for showing even the slightest form of gender-nonconformity!
I'm fine with anyone saying "surrender your man card". It lets me know I can safely ignore this moron; they have nothing of value to add to any conversation.
There is value hidden in there, they are saying they need a card to feel like a man. No card exists, so they have not and never feel like a man. Really only useful if you want to manipulate them.
Turned mine in long ago, I don't like beer and sports.
This US thing baffles me. It goes "whoa, a man cannot possibly buy tampons, or hold his friends handbag, or whatever..." because some braindead six year old idiot character out of Beavis and Butthead might magically pop out of thin air and guffaw "Haha, tampons!", which is somehow, potentially terminally embarassing and will end your public life.
Its not a US thing. Its a loser thing. This brand of machismo is globally available.
While it's globally available, it's really much much much more prevalent in the US. And it has been for, litterally, decades. Fourty years ago, a US girlfriend was already complaining about it, and I didn't understand what it was about (Yes, I might be older than you are). It's also completely obvious in US mass media.
It really isn't, BUT American media is a power house globally and makes many of our cultural events more prevalent than reality. If you travel the world, you'll find things far worse in India, Brazil, Mexico, and really most non-first world countries. I mean theyre so afraid of homosexualty in parts of the world they consider you a demon and kill you.
One of the reasons you hear about it in the USA is that its considered newsworthy. If it was as common as you were implying it would be like reporting on the prevalence of turkey sandwiches for lunch. We dont eat them all the time but its not weird or rare.
Modern men are engaged with their children of both genders and youtube has further propped up the narrative that being a good father means doing so at only a positive reflection of your masculinity.
It's also, because you bathe in it, that you don't realise how utterly different the US is in so many ways from the rest of the werstern world. No, really.
From the innumerable religious sects, the numerous racial things, the bizarre poliltics, the relationship to the body (like the ritual cock cutting to avoid masturbation, or the fear of areolas), the extremely strict gendered roles (see above), the love of money (which, admittedly, was kind of a global thing, until it became Gelt Uber Alles! and fucked up your whole society, even though it was the one that started with the most progress for the working class, inspiring people everywhere else... what the fuck happened?).
And that's probably just scratching the surface. Of course, you can start to find some of this here and there in other "western" countries nowadays. And you can find more of it in "nonaligned" countries.
That's not the point though. What I meant to say is that the US mindset is on average very different from that of the other western countries when you start to dig a bit (and yes, of course you'll find lots of exceptions). So the rise of something weird in the US isn't really surprising. Although I would have expected something more explicitly religious than a rapist paedophile.
I've travelled and it seems to me like every country has their own insecurities when it comes to gender roles. Like, in some countries they have hangups about men in the kitchen. But, those same countries don't have hangups about men dancing that the US sometimes does. Other countries have hangups about hairstyles or shoes, but it's ok for men to show physical affection by hugging or holding hands.
I thought long and hard about what it would mean to me if someone called me "not a man" for anything I do and I came to the following conclusion: nothing. I can do all the same things with or without the label "man". Funny.
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