Fellow men, I want to share with you a truth. If you express non-platonic interest in a woman and she rejects that interest, it will hurt. Here's what a man does next: he lets that go and moves on. #ToxicMasculinity 1/?
It's okay to recognize to yourself that being rejected stings. Feel your feelings. We're allowed to do that. Being hurt, however, does not last. Being hurt grants you no right of revenge. A boy throws a tantrum. A man lets it go and moves on. #ToxicMasculinity 2/?
We are failing on so many levels by not teaching boys how to be men, to offer our feelings honestly and to accept rejection gracefully. A man accepts rejection as a thing that happens, because we respect those to whom we offer our feelings. #ToxicMasculinity 3/?
If the person to whom we offered ourselves accepts, we honor and cherish that. If not, we let it go and move on. To do anything else dishonors you and your intended.
Feel your feelings, try again with someone else. This is being a good man. #ToxicMasculinity 4/4
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Here's the thing: no one "made this" by themselves. Your coding, your maker skills, anything you know how to do is built on top of the efforts of those who came before and had it harder than you. 1/
Everything you know how to do, someone else had to figure out the steps to make it possible. They invented tools to fill gaps in capability, and they did so building off of the efforts of people who came before them who had it even harder. 2/
However hard you think you work now, people just 10 years ago were working harder to do about as much.
Everything you do today depends on a chain of events, labor, and intelligence supplied by the continuing functions of society. 3/