Toxic Masculinity is a creation of the Consumer Culture.
The Consumer Culture is our dominant culture.
It’s sole purpose is to make money. No other reason.
It really really discounts all Men in many ways.
It teaches that Men, to be Manly, must “buy” Manliness.
Buy clothes, a car, a house(s) take substances to build muscle, have sexy partners.
This message discounts and hurts all Men.
The Martial Culture, the culture of the fight gyms, teaches that Manliness must be earned.
Fighting produces and nurtures Manliness.
It is much much harder to become Manly outside the Martial Culture simply because the Consumer Culture puts pressure on Men to conform.
Most Men today are “soft” Men because they do not know how to fight, not able to defend and protect themselves and others.
Visit a fight gym today and learn more about this beautiful way to live.
The Martial Culture builds Men!
The Consumer Culture uses Men to make money!
Train and fight!
Always seek Manliness!
WarriorMale
how can you speek ill of consumer culture when two of your examples are from marvel movies
Because watching a movie does not equal buying sports cars. You are missing the point here and considering how obvious it is I feel like you are doing it on purpose.
how are marvel movies, which come out every few months, not a part of consumer culture? Especially since they are super heroes who have been around for more than fifty years.
You are really not getting the point so let me help you understand.
Warriormale was not talking about consumer culture as a whole. He was talking about a very specific part of it, which he also made pretty clear with his examples. He was talking about the beauty industry for men that tells you that you need show muscles to be a real man, like all the models do, when their muscles are worth jackshit because they train to be physically “appealing”, not useful.
He was also talking about the part of consumer culture that uses the ownership of expensive items to determine your worth as a man. Aka the part of society that will tell you that, in order to be a real man, you need a big house, a fantastic car, have to buy your botoxed wife gifts every day and you need a massive paycheck.
Movies and franchises do not fall into this category, ever. No one will say “He is a real man, he watches all Captain America movies.” or “He is a keeper. He spent 2000 bucks on his Warhammer 40k collection.” Both types of men, the show-off and the nerd, participate in consumer culture and spend lots of money, but society will drool only over the dude with the sports car and the show muscles.
And that’s what Warriormale was talking about.
Thank you for explaining this in greater depth.
These are excellent examples.
WarriorMale
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