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I am increasingly annoyed with "boys will be boys" and "dudes rock" in response to videos of men, say, digging a hole at the beach or doing tricks on a trampoline. I'm not a hater and I enjoy seeing people have fun, but men are just given the space to be whimsical and carefree in a way that women are not. Girls are expected to be caregivers from such an early age, sexualized earlier, effectively denied a childhood. I'll see a video of a guy giving random people on the street hugs and everyone observes that "all the women ignored him but the dudes had his back," and it's like well yeah, women are used to being harassed and have their guards up. And I want to see women get their own "dudes rock" treatment without being considered immature in a way that reflects on their entire gender, labelled "manic pixie dream girls" (a term used in media criticism not to be leveraged against real people just living their lives), or denied the kindness reserved for men with a sense of childlike wonder.
When I first saw all the homie memes like the ones with guys and their homies being all touchy and fruity and stuff I thought it was fake but when I actually witness it I was like what in the fruity fruit bowl of the almighty gays is this cuz I kid you not I saw them grabbing their homies ass in the middle of English class like bro can you not wait until recess?
Me, seeing a lad dragging something along the floor in town in a plastic packet on a dog leash : what's that
Me getting closer to see the dog leash is attached to a dog collar around a fish : OH
him to his friends : I'm telling you, it's dead vicious
normalize men being so so so gay with each other like gals being pals for men but it's bros being dudes (tongue kissing)
Can you all stop trying to pair "Boys will be boys" to rapists?
Boys will be boys means lovable goofballs.
If the phrase offends you though because it's not PC, fuck you.