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If you internalize all the lessons of toxic masculinity & then just point them at women, you& #39;re a feminist!
All right I& #39;m supposed to be working but this 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👆" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach oben" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach oben">really f& #39;ing irritated me so I have to rant a minute. One of my favorite things about AOC, Katie Porter, and the rest of the young generation of women infiltrating American politics is that they are modeling a new kind of strength.
They are showing, through their daily behavior & comportment, that "strength" does not have to mean what it has come to mean for American masculinity: stoicism & emotional illiteracy. It doesn& #39;t have to mean being an asshole or gritting your teeth & tolerating assholes.
It is perfectly possible to be strong & also reveal vulnerability. Shitty, insensitive behavior from men is frightening, infuriating, & hurtful, & there& #39;s nothing wrong with revealing fear, fury, & pain when it happens. It would be stifling & inhuman *not* to.
When AOC spoke on the floor after that meathead Yoho accosted her on the Capitol steps, she did not "take it like a woman," whatever TF that means. She didn& #39;t pretend it wasn& #39;t scary & unsettling & infuriating. She was open about that, signaling it& #39;s *OK* to be open about it.
But she also didn& #39;t back down. She didn& #39;t grin & bear it. She made Yoho & his meathead buddies & all the meatheads watching TV confront what he had done. He can giggle & high 5 his buddies & collect MAGA donations, but he can& #39;t pretend he wasn& #39;t a bullying asshole.
Embracing your full humanity, in public, takes way more gonads than being yet another third-rate John Wayne ripoff, unable to identify, process, or articulate your emotions. It& #39;s a kind of strength & courage that emerge out of, rather than deny, being a whole-ass person.
