jared on Nostr: Your use of demeaning, violent, and demeaning speech will only serve to perpetuate ...

Your use of demeaning, violent, and demeaning speech will only serve to perpetuate the stereotypes you claim to belittle.

If you are not interested in responding respectfully and in good faith, please kindly move along, sir.

Your speech is free — no one can or should take that away from you. However, that doesn’t mean it is without consequences. All men are victims of the violence your “masculinity” demands of boys, first to themselves and then to others. It is our job to heal now, sir. This is not the way.

It is a fragile strength that needs to threaten or demean others in order to feel secure. We can do better, and we must. Else we are no better than the fascist contraptions we seek to dismantle.