[323/365] happy international men's day

[cosmolinguist]

Today is the first International Men's Day where I have felt like it might be anything to do with me.

Thank you to the men and masc people who've introspected about their gender and decided, whether cis or trans, to embrace manhood. You've shown me it isn't all toxic and unemotional and aggressive and hurtful to everyone it comes into contact with.

Thanks to those who've made me feel welcome with my new name this year and my increasingly defaulting to he/him pronouns (the others aren't wrong but, well my new favorite spatial metaphor to describe gender goes, I'm one of those people who "may use one set of pronouns because that’s where they pick up their mail and it’s convenient"). But especially thanks to those who've made masculinity a thing I feel welcome to investigate and visit and maybe now set up some kind of home in, or at least a P.O. box.

Comments

[worlds_of_smoke]

♥

[silveradept]

I'm glad you've found non toxic men that help you feel welcome. I wish there were many more of them in prominent places.

[cosmolinguist]

I do too. I shouldn't feel like I've won a scavanger hunt just because I've found some good ones. :)

[momentsmusicaux]

I didn't know about the road metaphor, and I like it a lot!

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah I only found out about it a week or two ago when a friend linked to this article. It immediately delighted me, and I'm glad you liked it too.

[sfred]

<3