Re:19th Century Marriage Manuals: Advice for Young Husbands
by eimai134 on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @03:15PM
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I'm glad to hear of more and more young people feeling this way. As a female who is a little bit older than you, I get worried about some of the negative effects of the younger generations being too gender-neutral. As an example, my mother and I both have a condition where we tend to get dizzy ("fainting spells"). That's one very small example of where we need to be feminine and allow men to help us out.
Re:19th Century Marriage Manuals: Advice for Young Husbands
by cauterized on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @10:23AM
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Please don't try to tell me what I do or don't need to feel.
One thing I've realised over the past few years (I'm 22) is the importance of feeling masculine. Not in the generic socially prescribed sense necessarily, but in my own way, that took a lot of contemplation about "what makes me feel masculine?" and obviously the specifics will be different for every man (and I equally think it's important for women to feel feminine in a way which empowers them), but it has made me feel so much more confident and empowered as a human being to be more in touch with my roots so to speak.