You can just vent if you want, but here’s more context: We’re playing a DnD oneshot soon, and the theme is toxic masculinity (particularly in a gym). We’re all playing dudes who visited the gym for a long time already. I already have some ideas for my character, but I want to collect some more stories of toxic masculinity, as I’m quite lucky that my bubble doesn’t have much of it.

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    22 hours ago

    One of my earliest memories was being into Britney Spears. I was young, 10 or so. Dad was never home and I learned to like my own music on my own time without him, and I liked her music. My memory is that I was listening to it in the car, my CD of hers, and then I remember mom and dad arguing, and I don’t remember ever seeing that CD again.

    Its so funny to see all those guys, who called groups like Nsync and BSB “gay” back in middle school in the '90s, lose their fucking minds and start singing and dancing along when something like “Bye Bye Bye” comes on the jukebox at the bar.

    To be honest, I hated boy bands back then too but there’s definitely some nostalgia hearing them today.

    • Soapbox@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      10 hours ago

      He didn’t want you listening to her music. But I bet he would have appreciated you putting a poster of her over your bed.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      Honestly I look back and put them. How many of them had similar experiences to me? That was taught to them, they didn’t make it up themselves.