A Crisis of Male Identity: TransM
Disclaimer: Two spirit individuals are real. They occur in every species and are a natural, wonderful expression of nature. This article if NOT about individuals who are two spirit in their souls as gifted to us by nature.
So are you a man?
How do you know?
The explosion of hyper machismo across the screens has violated the basic truth of biology.
Men are kind. Men are nurturing. The are sweet. And emotional and they get scared and sad.
Having babies does not make u a man. Loving them does.
Raping women does not make you a man, loving one woman enough that she wants to be with you does.
There is nothing wrong with heterosexuality. Heterosexuality is responsible for the propagation of the species. LGBTQ+ individuals are potentially around 10% or less of the general population. They are rare and that is why indigenous cultures celebrate them so much.
You hear the soullessness of the world beat the trans “movement” like a punching bag. never once looking or asking them why they feel they do not belong.
Let us say for argument sake, there are alot more young boys who have started to categorize themselves as trans. Not women. Women tend to explore their identity.
Now imagine being a young boy. Your 13- you like people. And every aspect of society around you is telling you to hurt someone. the initiation process of manhood has become INFLICT PAIN.
in my culture, we do not have gender ROLES. but gender identity is biological. the absence of gender roles removes the cause for socialized machismo. you do not want to question the manhood of a man from punjab unless you are suicidal.
but it allows for the natural evolution of male identity. which is kind. there is violence inherent in certain aspects of the male and female identity. catabolism. the breakdown of things that need to be recycled. You must kill an animal for nutrition. u can hit a kid with kindness to teach a lesson. the intention is not to cause harm but to punctuate the moment with a form of shame that teaches them collective community norms.
the current hyper machismo videogames, the corporate culture, the Andrew Tate variety of how to be a man is in violation of the male natural identity. causing the number of young boys and men who are now identifying as not that man. young men are identifying as trans, adhd, dyslexic — ill be anything just im not that guy. i wont hurt u and sometimes i also need to cry.
it is interesting to see the evolution of the male identity over the last 20 years since social media has become a ubiquitous tool. i found myself endeared to one of the muscle macho men Chris Hemsworth in an interview he did on late night where he told a story about how his young daughter painted his toe nails.
as young girls our dad would let us dress him up sometimes with our silly jewelry. we were forbidden from using make up.
but these are endearing signs of male nurturing instincts that have somehow been lost in the airwaves. so if you consider the absolute kindness it takes for a man- let us presume farming is a male activity due to the physical effort needed- you must care for the harvest.
they water it, they plant it, they watch over it. this is the most nurturing activity in the world. cowboys are most kindly sung as heros in country songs. country music is the farmers love song. there is not a single country song or artist i can think of who advocates for rape, violence against women, or the need to have many many children.
indicators like how many women a man has slept with, how many girlfriends he maintains in one moment, how many kids he has fathered are signs that a man is using external indicators to quantify his heterosexual identity.
being gay does not turn off sperm. many gay men are fathering children for lesbian couples. often in co-parenting arrangements because it is a natural human instinct- it is the most fundamental of instincts to LOVE. to want to care for someone.
The Crisis of Masculinity:
How many 13 year old boys entering puberty go rabid raping young girls?
I am an avid and dedicated watcher of all teen drama, and the jock only gets the girl when he is nice. he is “niced down” to a kind level away from his moron jock friends who dont know that he loves someone and love is kind.
now be a kid in the same high school and not a jock.
ur definitely not the muscle guy. what archetypes, what role models do you gravitate to?
you are a boy- looking for your male social identity and your not an asshole. you dont want to hurt women, you think you do like women. but u dont care which kids use which bathrooms. u dont want to be mean but you want to learn how to accommodate someone because u r a nice BOY.
ur not a pansy. ur not a sissy boy. ur just a kid. and u r not going to hurt anyone. if she says no, then u will go home and cry.
where in todays world of men do you see yourself?
i am a 41 year old, binary identity, heterosexual female. i do not see u anywhere either. maybe if we did we would not have a declining birth rate. more women would have kids with kind men who treat them with care than with men who use them as tools to masturbate.
we dont have a “trans issue” we have a man issue.
having a dick does not a man make. having kids also does not make u a social man. having bitches in cribs is not the demarcation of manhood.
i would like to thank Zakir Khan for teaching us how a real man acts when he is a real man and he cant find a woman because the gender ratio in india is asymmetrical due to how much india hated women.
woh titli ki tarha aai
meri zindagi bagh kar gai
mere har napak irade ko
woh pak kar gai
(translated for real men)
she fluttered into my life
and destroyed it in a breeze
my every distasteful thought
she transformed into poetry