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The rise of the ‘performative male:’ How young men are experimenting with masculinity online
The Conversation ^ | November 19, 2025 | Jillian Sunderland

Posted on 11/20/2025 5:28:56 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 11/20/2025 5:28:56 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Ministry of the the church.

Keep women out of trying to teach masculinity and let healthy males teach it. Being a Christian warrior is the best example of healthy masculinity.


2 posted on 11/20/2025 5:30:39 AM PST by Jonty30 (I've been diagnosed as being polemic and there is no cure. )
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To: Red Badger
young men are rewriting what masculinity looks like today, sometimes with matcha lattes, Labubus, film cameras and thrifted tote bags.

Oh, that's nothing new. Those are just "fags".

3 posted on 11/20/2025 5:32:34 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.d)
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To: Red Badger
“performative male”

Hell no!

4 posted on 11/20/2025 5:33:23 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: Red Badger

Well, we don’t know which ones, but some of them are actually acting as the Scarlet Pimpernel, faking a Sir Percy Blakeney-type persona in public.


5 posted on 11/20/2025 5:35:39 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Red Badger

That was my first thought before trying to tread water through this multi fathomed article: our old friend :
Pajama Boy with his lukewarm cup of latte.


6 posted on 11/20/2025 5:38:57 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Red Badger

Everyone is performative on monetized social media platforms. Even the “crash out” videos where someone is just losing it online are staged for clicks and monetization. In some ways, you have to give the Devils their due. If they can make money being “performative” online, why not? It beats digging ditches for a living.


7 posted on 11/20/2025 5:40:23 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Red Badger

At “performative male” contests, participants compete for laughs and for women’s attention by reciting poetry, showing off thrifted fashion or handing out feminine hygiene products to show they’re one of the “good” guys.


“Just mention Modern Art, civil rights or folk music and you’re in like Flynn”


8 posted on 11/20/2025 5:41:12 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Dr. Sivana

The pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle. The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true!.................

9 posted on 11/20/2025 5:41:19 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: dfwgator

And you are vegan................


10 posted on 11/20/2025 5:42:25 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
From the article: A 2022 content analysis of popular TikTok male creators...

Popular only because non-soyboys are outright banned or have their channels throttled.

The Left abhors masculinity which exposes the flaws of their matriarchal societies.

11 posted on 11/20/2025 5:42:56 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: lee martell

Chamomile tea..............


12 posted on 11/20/2025 5:43:09 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: T.B. Yoits
From the article: ...signalling the rejection of “toxic masculinity.”

The only toxic masculinity is the masculinity in women.

13 posted on 11/20/2025 5:45:27 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

Ha that reminds me:

Below is the result of a writing assignment given by an English professor from the University of Colorado. A “tandem story” was to be written by two students, one male, one female.

The story was to be compiled in alternating paragraphs via email, with CC’s to the professor. There was to be no communication between the writers aside from each successive email. The story would end when both participants agreed a successful conclusion had been achieved.

THE STORY:

(first paragraph by Rebecca)
At first, Laurie couldn’t decide which kind of tea she wanted. The chamomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked chamomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So chamomile was out of the question.

(second paragraph by Gerry)
Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic, tea-drenched bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. “A.S. Harris to GeoStation 17,” he said into his transgalactic communicator. “Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far...” But before he could sign off a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship’s cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.

(Rebecca)
He died almost immediately. But not before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who ever had feelings for him. Soon afterward, Earth stopped pointless hostilities toward the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. “Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel,” Laurie read online one morning. The news simultaneously excited and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth, when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no cell phones, no Internet to distract her from her sense of innocent wonder at the beauty around her. “Why must one lose one’s innocence to become a woman?” she pondered wistfully.

(Gerry)
Little did she know she had less than 10 seconds to live. The wimpy peaceniks who’d pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through Congress had left Earth a defenseless target for hostile empires determined to destroy the human race. Just hours after the passage of the treaty, alien ships were on course for Earth with enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet. Their lithium fusion missiles entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, was rocked by the inconceivably massive explosion which vaporized poor, stupid Laurie.

(Rebecca)
This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic, semi-literate adolescent geek.

(Gerry)
Yeah? Well, my writing partner is a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. “Oh, shall I have chamomile tea? Or shall I have some other F______ TEA??? Oh no, what am I to do? I’m an air headed bimbo who reads too many romance novels!”

(Rebecca)
Asshole.

(Gerry)
Bitch!

(Rebecca)
F___ YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!!

(Gerry)
In your dreams, ‘Ho. Go drink some more f_____ tea.

(Rebecca)
I hate you. Don’t ever talk to me again.

(TEACHER)
A+ I really liked this one.


14 posted on 11/20/2025 5:46:23 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Red Badger

The return of the metrosexual.


15 posted on 11/20/2025 5:49:58 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Jonty30

Keep women out of trying to teach masculinity and let healthy males teach it. Being a Christian warrior is the best example of healthy masculinity.
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As a member of the male gender it never occurred to me that I had to behave or act in a manly way. It was natural, inbreed, and instinctive to me and its kept me in good stead for more than 80 years - now still happily married for more than fifty years, raised by example two children who are now married and productive offspring, served my country for more than 30 years. I will never pretend to be something or somebody I’m not.


16 posted on 11/20/2025 5:55:25 AM PST by iontheball (, )
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My last text would be “Enjoy you old age with 55 cats.”...............


17 posted on 11/20/2025 5:58:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
Walk Like A ManBut my own father said, "Give her up, don't bother
The world isn't comin' to an end"
(He said)
"Walk like a man, talk like a man
Walk like a man my son
No woman's worth crawlin' on the earth
So walk like a man, my son"

18 posted on 11/20/2025 6:14:46 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

As they sang in falsetto voices................


19 posted on 11/20/2025 6:16:19 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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jesus i am so old

man-buns were the beginning of the end
20 posted on 11/20/2025 6:17:40 AM PST by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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