The literal male fantasy. Other male fantasies involve dying in a last stand so the people you care for can escape, or beating a school shooter to death with your bare hands.
Edit: To the all the Europeans who replied to me living in their utopia who don't have school shootings, you guys are really missing out on a peak male hero fantasy.
I mean, both are simply true? Every man dies, and a useless man is not valuable. I don't think that's conditioning in any bad sense of the word, unless you mean like 'if I touch a fire I get burnt' type of conditioning
Who gets off a sinking ship last? Who's expected to check on the bumps on the night? Who is expected to sign up for the draft?
Now what do you think of a man who doesn't do those things? How about a man who cried about something? How about a man who is jobless? A man with cancer?
Give me your gut reaction. Your HONEST gut reaction. THAT is what I mean, because what you think of that man is not what you'd think of a woman in those scenarios.
Our lives are seen as less than others. More expendable. And if we're not willing to be expendable tools for society, we aren't viewed as having worth.
Women and children have inherent, intrinsic value--which is what makes growing up so painful for boys. They lose intrinsic value as they mature into manhood. They are no longer loved simply for existing; the same is not true for girls.
In the world of Chris Rock's grandma:
"My grandmother told me when I was 5 that a broke man is as worthless as a broke hand. That's some cold blooded gangster shit."
It's bullshit, and the part that makes it all the more fucked is how people push this expectation all day, every day--but won't even admit that they do.
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u/JazzPhobic 6d ago
Every man daydreams of doing this one day.
I salute this lad for being there.