It's honestly pretty sad. The type of masculinity they're trying to recapture is basically just about being useful. They want to contribute more to society than just making their boss more money by sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day. They want to feel like they can build stuff people need, fix stuff, and bond with the guys over a pint. What they're really looking for is solidarity and meaningful work, but they can't figure out how to do that so they buy masculine-branded shit instead.
There really isn't a lot of solidarity and meaningful work to go around. There's plenty of meaningful work that absolutely needs to be done right now but the people holding the means of production hostage still have their heads attached.
It's honestly pretty sad. The type of masculinity they're trying to recapture is basically just about being useful. They want to contribute more to society than just making their boss more money by sitting at a desk for 8 hours a day. They want to feel like they can build stuff people need, fix stuff, and bond with the guys over a pint. What they're really looking for is solidarity and meaningful work, but they can't figure out how to do that so they buy masculine-branded shit instead.
There really isn't a lot of solidarity and meaningful work to go around. There's plenty of meaningful work that absolutely needs to be done right now but the people holding the means of production hostage still have their heads attached.
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