argumate: generalchelseamayhem: argumate:feotakahari: If anything, it seemed to be a term to disti
argumate: generalchelseamayhem: argumate: feotakahari: If anything, it seemed to be a term to distinguish “guys who dress like Patrick Bateman, but have actual jobs.” remember in the ‘80s when we used the term “the New Man” remember in the ‘90s when we used the term “Sensitive New Age Guy” remember when every few years we remember when we heralded the arrival of a new breed of masculinity that equates to “can change a nappy occasionally” as if it was entirely unprecedented. Inquiring minds wish to know: in your opinion, would this have been largely due to a recurring failure of traditionalists to embrace men acting outside of their gender roles (thus inventing new words every successive generation) a failure of progressives, particularly LGBT activists, to remember that men acting outside of their gender roles did not necessarily imply a non-straight sexual orientation (thus inventing new words every successive generation) a combination of both, and/or a tendency to analyse all unusual behaviour (through an ever-widening scope of what counts as exceptional or unusual) as though it is indicative of a new trend, social movement, or something more philosophically meaningful than mundane pragmatism (thus inventing new words every successive generation)? just a corollary of “every generation thinks it invented sex” which is itself a corollary of every generation literally inventing everything, as we are all born without knowledge of language or culture and we don’t absorb it so much as reconstruct it.this is why progress sometimes feels impossible and “we” are constantly refighting battles that “we” already won: because every year a hundred million people are born who don’t know any of that stuff and have to figure it all out again. I’m reminded of the anecdote among medievalists that a large piece of evidence for medieval women going on pilgrimages is how year after year the church would issue statements that “women are NOT supposed to go on pilgrimages! We really mean it! In case you didn’t hear it the last five times let me reiterate that women are NOT” and so on. Like how if you see a sign that says “seriously do not microwave fish in here” your first reaction is to think that somebody’s been microwaving fish -- source link