https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT6RJscGT10
#ARKANSAS: #FASCISTS Demand #Haircuts Fit Outdated #GenderRoles
These morons are BANNING #gendernonconformingHAIRCUTS
#Farright #extrêmedroite #FASCISTUSA #HB1668
#ProtectCisgenderKidsWhoAreGenderNonconforming
....meanwhile, #EggsAreStillHigh!!
In Adolescence, online misogyny is taken to the darkest extreme
By Rachel Rasker
Netflix's new one-take crime drama takes toxic masculinity to a violent extreme. We asked an expert to help us unpack how reflective Adolescence is of our real world.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-20/adolescence-netflix-manosphere-incel-jamie-crime/105066666
In Adolescence, online misogyny is taken to the darkest extreme
By Rachel Rasker
Netflix's new one-take crime drama takes toxic masculinity to a violent extreme. We asked an expert to help us unpack how reflective Adolescence is of our real world.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-20/adolescence-netflix-manosphere-incel-jamie-crime/105066666
Africa: Online 'Manosphere' Is Moving Misogyny to the Mainstream: [UN News] A decline in democracy and harmful content spread on social media platforms are helping to drive a backlash against feminism, and the growth of misogynistic and retrograde ideas about the roles of men and women and society. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJQnv1 #Manosphere #Misogyny #Feminism #SocialMedia #GenderRoles
Apropos nothing
(Art credit: webcomic "Scandinavia and the world")
Republican #Men and #Women Are Changing Their Minds About How Women Should Behave
Surveys from 2024 show that support for traditional #genderroles is increasing. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this is happening primarily among Republicans. Perhaps more surprisingly, it is happening among Republican women as well as among Republican men.
Put another way, the rise in gender traditionalism derives more from politics than it is does from #gender.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/opinion/trump-republicans-masculinity-gender-traditional.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U4.FUOW.YWH4GvKskYHM&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Leonard Crofoot joins us to discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Angel One". In this clip, Leonard talks about his character, Trent's, motivations.
Video Releases 2/25 at Patreon.com/HumanistTrek
Audio Releases 2/27 on all Podcast Platforms
Leonard Crofoot (Trent) joins us to discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Angel One". In this clip, Leonard talks about planting the seed of gender equality in a deeply matriarchal society.
Video Releases 2/25 at http://Patreon.com/HumanistTrek
Audio Releases 2/27 on all Podcast Platforms
Why are white men so weak, fragile, and selfish. This is shameful and embarrassing.
“The whitewashing of military schools”
#uspol #genderpolitics #WeakMen #GenderRoles #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #NonWhiteHistory
We got diamonds but they only got cigars
Please Explain
Christine Potter
#Poetry #ChristinePotter #ActionSpectacle #GenderRoles
https://www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2024-part-iii/potter
Doing interesting work with a #MexicanAmerican (formerly just #Mexican) coauthor about #GenderRoles and right-wing #voting behavior across multiple ethnic/racial groups. The colleague is a political scientist so his view of things like "masculinity" is different from mine. It's a lot of fun to discuss. I just made this graphic for him and the other authors to stimulate discussion about what we want to measure. The lower-right yellow explosion indicates the discrepancy currently of most interest to me as a measure of masculinity conflict/threat/stress, though I'd truly prefer (and have tried once to construct) a measure that somehow combines all three discrepancies.
Submissions to #SPSSI are due today for the conference in #portland #oregon in June.
(Note: gender roles and #masculinity are related to my areas of #research but not central; if you a have notes or suggestions, I'm open to them)
![A triangle with words written on the vertices and sides.
Vertices:
a. Perceived cultural masculinity norms [Cultural messaging about characteristics of “real men” in the man’s developmentally-important cultural milieu. Example: “Growing up I knew that men should be tough.]
b. Attitudes about cultural masculinity norms [How the man feels (evaluatively) about cultural masculinity norms. e.g. “I don’t think men always need to be tough”]
c. Perception of own masculine behavior/traits [A man’s perception of himself, in terms of the masculinity-related traits/behaviors/characteristics his (developmental) culture considers important. Example: “I am medium tough”]
The sides indicate discrepancies between the constructs in the vertices:
a-b: "Does anyone measure this?"
a-c: "Some masculinity conflict scales measure only this"
b-c: "This feels most central to what we want to know"
A key indicates that discrepancies could be measured by subtracting to different scale scores, for instance.](https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/113/975/652/531/602/176/original/47ca29882348f629.png)
Art can be a wonderful catalyst for emotions. I remember my little thriller box that I invented after I found the background image (more in the alt text). Given the current political situation, I immediately realise who my fictitious muffin-baking princess would fill into cans and send to Mars without return ticket. 
My wifey and I have switched #genderroles. I’m making dinner, while she’s assembling #IKEA furniture. She said she wanted more LEGO to build, but I guess she really meant LEGO.
Dominance benefits men and prestige benefits women in social influence, but time equalizes these effects, study finds https://www.psypost.org/dominance-benefits-men-and-prestige-benefits-women-in-social-influence-but-time-equalizes-these-effects-study-finds/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SocialPsychology #GenderRoles #Influence #Dominance #Prestige
I highly recommend everyone go listen to the great 
️️️️️ conversation Emily Peck and Harold Pollack had on the @Slate Money podcast episode "Money Talks: The Cost of Caring" about the challenges his family faced when his intellectually disabled brother-in-law suddenly came under their long-term #care . Aspects touched on include #unpaidCareWork #genderRoles #healthCare #disabilitySupport #disabilityRights #privilege #financialPlanning #mortgage #housingMarket #racialInequalities #nimby https://slate.com/podcasts/slate-money/2025/01/finance-cost-money-longterm-care-healthcare-disability
@jredlund @temptoetiam
The article about "the real reason make college enrolled is dropping" may be a deconstruction as you say. The article acknowledges it is only portion of the problem of declining male enrollment. However, it also points out how gender role influence is being ignored. I think it is correct in that it is a significant problem, if largely from my experience and that of others.
You wrote:
Some personalities, male and female, are temperamentally inclined toward action and doing rather than objective study...
Is this not simply another shade of gender roles, something learned and then reinforced by our society? My spouse and I acknowledge we have reversed gender roles, and our "temperament inclines" us to differently "gendered" solutions as a result. My goddaughter once shied away from math because her female peers thought it wasn't something girls did. Her parents "corrected" that misconception about gender roles, and now she's a doctorate candidate in mechanical engineering working on a top flight astrophysics project.
I work to reflect upon my context and ensure it doesn't color my logic, but I do make this argument nevertheless. Furthermore, I try not to see everything as black and white:
So college is seen as girly and gay...
... by a statistically significant population of those that might have otherwise attended college, not a majority. More data is required, and I think promoting the article may promote researching whether or not this is an increasing factor educators can combat.
#EngenderedWriting #gender #genderroles #college #university
#writer #author #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon
re: https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-dont-go-to-college
@bennomatic @temptoetiam @futurebird
Think about it: Most religions enforce gender roles. Media and popular culture glorify gender norms. Male gender roles teach female domination, so is it any wonder, if not taught any better, that men find it hard to treat women as equal, as peers, or are willing to accept them as superiors?
College with "too many women" stops being a place where "a man" (pejorative) can find brainy marriage prospects (to answer your question) that can make a man's life more equitable—and instead becomes intimidating. Just as a room of mostly women is comfortable for a woman compared to one full of men, the opposite is very true. Sadly. And what can we attribute that fear to? Teaching gender roles instead of each person is A Person exactly the same as you regardless of strength or sex.
This is why I am an author. I try to depict worlds that aren't scary because of gender because that isn't necessary to be fully human. There is so much more than being human than being brutish in this way.
[article about men males not attending college as much because of increasing female attendance] https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-dont-go-to-college
This article is so on point it makes the hair on the back of my neck raise. Teaching our children they're only good enough if they adhere to male or female gender roles maims and cripples them for life. Gender roles make people conform so a society can control them and strip choice and individuality that harms power structures, or privileged authority. It harms flexibility to excel and if our times hint at anything, promote a return to brutishness.
I highly recommend this article. Study it.
Hat tip: @temptoetiam
TL;DR: #genderroles, Christianity, and US politics
When I was #LDS I gave a lot of talks in church. This is normal. There's no clapping in Sacrament Meeting, but people express their appreciation for especially good talks afterward, with a handshake or a "nice talk!"
Well, I gave a few that got no positive responses. For example, I once gave a talk--backed up with plenty of scriptures and prophetic utterances--asserting that Jesus' message could validly be interpreted as "Brothers, why can't you be more like your sisters?"
I still think this is a reasonable take on the teachings of Jesus as appearing in the #Bible (and the Book of #Mormon and Doctrine & Covenants). Turning the other cheek, not complaining about your occupiers' oppression, blessing those who despitefully use you, and--gasp--identifying with a sexually promiscuous woman instead of the people trying to punish her: these are direct rejections of age-old hegemonic #masculinity.
Yeah, nobody told me they enjoyed my talk that day.
And here we are, at least 20 years into the violent return of the most toxic wife-beater rhetoric. All our big fascists are going all in on pure contempt for femininity and #women, rabidly preaching #misogyny. Most of them call themselves "Christian," while their "#Christian" followers cheer.
This is not an education issue; this is not ignorance. Every one of those Christians cheering Joe Rogan, Andrew Tate, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and now Zuck and Bezos have 100% been taught the words of Jesus. They've been sermonized to since birth about the Man from Galilee feeding the poor, talking with women at wells instead of men in houses, and telling rich guys to give away their wealth if they want to go to heaven. They've had a choice, day in and day out, to either listen to the stories about kindness and compassion for the disadvantaged or the ones about domination and oppression. They are making their choice, and this choice, at least, is fully fucking informed.
Why Not Zoidberg? 
