• BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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    5 hours ago

    The reaction gif is implying that you aren’t a man if you express that you want to feel like one.

    Doesn’t say that anywhere on the gif

    • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 hours ago

      You are correct, technically it doesn’t. It is about kings, and the poster tells you to replace king with man.

      Also technically it is saying that a trans person who tells you that they are a man, is not a real man. I mean trans men are men.

      But I don’t think that is a fair reading of the text. But sure you can read the message that I call toxic, as a toxic message to men in general and especially towards trans men. I just don’t see where you want to go with that.

      Alternatively, and admittedly, I am reading it in the context of the post in which it is about men expressing that they want to feel manly. Still toxic, and implicitly transphobic, but at least matching the post.