Quote: (12-28-2016 10:56 PM)Menace Wrote:
...Are they really saying that? Absolutely stupid. It's quite sad that male dedication and loyalty is always twisted into some kind of gay thing.
Any honest display of traditional masculinity, especially as close relationships between men, is perceived by women as a threat to their interests, and is a source of envy.
It's a threat, because it revolves around the interests and needs of men rather than women, and doesn't involve them or their interests. From a woman's perspective, something that doesn't revolve around her interests and needs is by definition not serving her interests and needs, and so cannot be good.
It's a source of envy because women by their nature cannot share that dedication and loyalty with other women (or with men for that matter). No matter how much they might want such relationships, there are always mental reservations getting in the way - hypergamy, status-striving, etc.
And so, instead of accepting that men are different from women like their ancestors did, modern women and their similarly excluded-feeling mangina courtiers use shaming tactics to penalize men for having what they cannot share. They portray or reframe any relationships not focused on female interests as an expression of behaviors or traits such men despise in other men so as to get men to reject them - in this case it's reinterpreting brotherhood as down-low, but it also happens with familiar taunts like "oh, so you're afraid of women in [x]?" or questioning a man's morality, character, or mental integrity for doing anything in which women are not interested or not the focus.