There's a one minute video with the joke in the tweet.

Aside from from the obvious shit on whether you should wokescold stand-up comedians (of course you should), it made me think about the weird position straight cis dude gender nonconformity has in today's progressive spaces. Like there are people with trans flags in qrts explaining that a straight guy having his nails painted is a bad sign.

Here in Russia when I was growing up you could get beat up for being a guy with painted nails. One time I almost did.

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah it's just toxic masculinity, transphobia etc. passed off as OK.

    People think as long as the person right in front of you is a cis guy, it's fine to basically just say painted nails make you a sick perverted f-word. Liberal identity politics sees oppressed classes as just types of individual people you shouldn't be mean to, instead of seeing any kind of system. There's a certain water-off-a-duck's back quality to being in a culturally dominant group, but at some point it's really easy to just demand toxic masculinity out of men.

    There's really very little pressure to filter out reactionary ideas whenever the proximate target is a representative of some dominant group. Like yeah let's all spend our Saturday accusing straight guys of being secretly gay or something, in a way that makes it clear we think being gay is incredibly wrong and embarrassing -- maybe they'll do some wild and freaky shit to compensate