Hey anon from the gotg post. I thought I should inform you that the person who made that Gotg vol 2 and toxic masculintiy post replied to the anon post that I sent you essentially saying that she is proud of a post that demonizes men by relying on a piece of fictional media mind you as proof of a so-called changing tide of toxic masculinity. You’re right about fandom gentrification. It’s so hard to enjoy anything without these people messing it up for me.
I saw. One of her buddies chimed in whining about “fandom bros”. Are you even a “bro”, anon?
Have any of you read it (and do you have to keep putting these rants in the Guardians of the Galaxy tag?)
It’s not demonizing men in the slightest. Why would I want to demonize men? I like them as much as I do women. It’s demonizing abusers who hide their abuse behind a veneer of ‘hey, it’s okay to do this to boys, it makes them into men’ which I would assume is a thing everybody is against, although I’m growing less and less certain by the minute.
(This is not a small thing for me. There are plenty of men I know, older men especially, who have been so utterly shoved into the box marked ‘be a man, don’t show weakness, don’t show hurt’ that it’s legit affected their mental health. Without going into my family history, yes, that’s linked to the above.)
I’m baffled, really and honestly, that anyone so much as skimmed what I wrote and came away with anything along the lines of ‘demonization’. Unless they’re a really big fan of Ego as a person, I guess?! The entire point of the article (well, post, hopefully it’s soon to be an article. @themarysue?) is “Let’s not hurt boys. And let’s not raise them to believe women are weak, because that hurts everybody.” How did something like that inspire aggression, when no-one is demonizing and no-one is whining, just looking at a movie and praising it for tackling an issue no-one tackles very much?