Subnostr

Effeminate men are despised not because they are like women—women are excellent creatures with many virtues worth imitating—but because they possess the vices of a bad women.

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MichaelJ 1y ago

It's the same in the other direction. A woman who possesses the vices of a particularly bad man is far more contemptible than one who is just bad at being a woman.

Nobody 1y ago

It's Friday night. Go have a pint or two. I'm on my third. 🍻

H 1y ago

Interesting. What would those vices be?

MichaelJ 1y ago

Indecision, gossip, emotional manipulation, and indirectness in speech are a few that seem particularly bad when you see them in men.