#male representation

[greetings-inferiors]

how do you find good male representation that like isn't feeding into toxic masculinity?

Dumb luck mainly. Obviously if you find something that has good male representation then the things associated with that will also have good male representation, but finding that starting thing is genuinely just luck. Apart from recommendations (I will oblige)

Gravity falls is great and dipper has an entire episode about manliness and how even though he’s a nerd, a wimp, and REALLY likes the equivalent of abba, that doesn’t make him any less of a boy, or any less of a man.

Jojo’s bizzare adventure is honestly really good for positive masculinity. Hirohiko Araki has said how his goal is to portray “beautiful men” and it really shows. Sure the first three parts the “beautiful men” are all hyper buff and “manly”, but later on they show their more “effeminate” side, like josuke with fashion, or giorno with… I mean look at him, but that doesn’t make them any less of men, and they’re beautiful.

Now that’s kind of all I can think of where it’s a focus. There’s things like kingdom hearts where Sora isn’t stereotypically manly, his whole character is being bright and optimistic and kind, and he’s still strong and a man, and you also have Riku who’s more stoic and not as kind to begin with, but learns to warm up. There’s even a lovely scene at the end of kh2 where they bond and it’s honestly really heartwarming. Do I think they focus too much on Sora “saving the girl”? Yes, but kingdom hearts is second to none when it comes to portrayals of platonic relationships. His friends are his power.

To summarise, I think that “good male representation” is just showing that men can be good and kind and smart, but not emphasising it. They’re not good and kind and smart because they’re men, just as the women aren’t good and kind and smart because they’re women. Hell, maybe they’re not good or kind or smart at all, because that’s how humans are. At the end of the day, being a man or being a woman doesn’t define who you are because we are all human, and I think that’s what I needed the most growing up. I believed that women were a completely different type of person that were kind, intelligent, gentle, graceful, and that men were cruel, idiotic, rough, and violent, and yes it was stupid. Are men and women different? Yes of course they are, just as me and you are different because we share a different name (I assume). Just because we have a trait doesn’t mean we are fundamentally different, me as a man and me as a woman are practically the same person.

Anyway that was a lot of words. The best male representation is showing men and women as human beings.

#text post #randyposting #ask #anon ask #hopefully this made any sense #I am very tired #long post #gender #men #male representation #gender equality #tagging is hard

[mysticdragon3md3]

There’s bad male fantasy armor too! Not just skimpy female fantasy armor

#armor #male representation #character design #costume design

[arian-archivist-11]

My biggest ick is the hyper feminization of an obviously masculine character in a m/m ship. It's weird watch this happen so consistently, but then i realize that a lot of people in Fandom are young woman/girls so they project their understandings of relationship dynamics onto said ships. Or that the male artists who work in the Fandom themselves like a more masc/fem approach in their works. Fem interpretations are okay and frankly needed but for some people it seems they can't enjoy it without unesecarily projecting those qualities onto characters and take away their actual personality in doing so. A concerning amount of these people are young woman (attracted to men) who bulldoze past, and ignore the obviously queer relationship and themes they're engaging with, essentially making it cis-het light.

This isn't some "mlM FeTiShIZaTiOn" post because there are enough of those brain dead, thinly veiled misogynistic takes in fandom spaces, but that I'd really like to see more male/masculine/gay influence in fandom spaces. Because many of those girls are young, over-enthusiastic, and queer themselves.

As much as woman and girls do enrich fandom spaces I feel as if there is a lack of people who know how to handle, write, and draw masculine themes. A lot of us are in fandom spaces, but the people actually ruling narratives and influencing fandom spaces aren't us.

From tumblr, to tictok and twitter most Fandom and community accounts are rarely ever men/masculine aligned peeps and the ones that are, are usually not as popular and sometimes treated like they're anomalies. Many male accounts I follow for these ships and communities talk about how suprised people tend to be when they hear their gender because it's not common for men to be in these fandoms spaces. Even when those spaces are about us. The weirdest part is that reddit is the only solid place with gay/queer male oriented communities of large size and that is simply unacceptable. Not only because its fucking reddit. But the fact that there should be many more spaces oriented around us. God's know I need to just feel surrounded by understanding and similar people. Let alone someone in a worse position then my own.

It'd be everything to just be surrounded by people I share an essential part of me in commen with when I'm talking about silly needy stuff. And communities seem hell bent on ignoring us or being downright hostile.

This isn't even mentioning the not very disguised bigotry we face.

Some experience micro-agressive, and even bigoted behavior from peole who interact with them or their work. I hardly interact with anyone to avoid this kind of shit but I see it all too often around me.

Fandom is lacking a masculine presence. Even when we're the ones making the art and writing the fics, the people who run the massive blogs and accounts are usually never us. And when we make blog spaces and run them our precanse is treated as unusual or even met with varying degrees of indifference and anger.

Fandom has a problem with anti-masculinity and heteronormativity in how it enteracts with male/queer male stories. We owe ourselves some basic self respect to push back against unhealthy narratives and to let stories that value our masculinity thrive. And for younger guys in fandom to feel safe in being themselves when they interact with our spaces.

I've heared to many stories of guys pretending to be more fem or swallowing down complaints about content made for m/m relationships because they feel like their "taking up space" and "being too loud" by voicing their concerns.

I'm a pretty fem gay boy but I still desire to have a more masculine presence in queer spaces that are oriented around fiction. The sheer amount of nerdy accounts that are ran by really masc guys who think no one in non dudebro, cis-het spaces would be interested in them is heartbreaking.

Masc or fem you're appreciated and talente and you deserve to express yourself however you want. Trust me every time time I see a content creator post and image of themselves in a skirt or another showing off his jacket or fitness gains it acts as a little more inspiration to me.

Ideas of masculinity being threatening or incompatible with our communities is crypto-terf bullshit. If you want to be an openly masculine/male blog, account, or personality then be just that. One of the greatest barriers for masculine queer people is feeling out of place no matter where you go, so they deserve a space to be at home. To feel like their masculinity isn't dampened by their queerness or that they cause problems by being masculine and queer. Masculine queer people are my fucking world. Healthy masculinity that's unafraid to be itself is something I wish I had in my male "role models" growing up.

It's fun watching my favorite streamer talking about how hot boys are in the most manly-man, guy-dude way ever. Young guys deserve that recognition and relatability. We deserve role models and inspiration.

No more about, us without us. Even for simple shit like fandom.

(Also i find it really fucking interesting that with a rise of terfy, right wing puritinism in fandom there is also a rise of conditional ecceptance, homophobia and trabsphobia towards anyone male aligned. This is more widespread problem then I think is fully realized. There's an abnormal amount of push back to just our precanse.)

#male representation #mlm representation #gay representation #queer representation #masculinity #queer masculinity #men of fandom #fandom discourse #mlm #gay #gay blog #gay male positivity #male positivity #trans male positivity #gays of tumblr #men of tumblr #fandom gatekeeping #gay stoires #queer stoires #gay community #gay discourse #queer discourse #inspiring words #positive words #positive self talk #queer joy #gay masculinity #mlm relationship #gay thoughts #gay pride

[ashersanity]

— “Shit, who’s my good boy?”

-> content warning! dub-con?, blood, m top bastard! reader

Ever get that high whenever you ruin a cocky bitch, reducing them to a blubbering mess beneath you as they frantically claw at any nearby surface to steady themselves? Dumb fuck, bitten lips normally quirked up into a smug smirk now oozing fresh droplets of blood running over their chin. The panted sighs that escape them, wheezing and gasping, struggling for any sort of breaths. Just the glassy look in their eyes, the wet eyelashes beaded with tears, freely running down their flushed cheeks. Makes you wanna ruin them, bruised fingers curling deeper through the strands of their hair and using it as leverage to fuck ‘em.

If they’re going to be all bark and no bite, might as well use them like they’re meant to be used, slutty and begging to be stuffed full of your cock. Idly rubbing a rough palm over your throbbing, clothed erection, barely constrained by the constricting fabric holding it back. It’s almost amusing, how the stupid fucker is so helplessly out of it, that they don’t even flinch at the smack of your cockhead, oozing precum against their bloodied lips. With a low curse, prying their mouth apart, experimentally slipping a finger in to drag over their pink tongue. Whorish, instinctively sucking on the pad of your thumb only for it to be replaced by something thicker, hotter insistently nudging against their swollen flesh.

Alright, so you might be the bastard here for even taking advantage of the bitch like this, but after all they’ve done to you. Snarky and bratty, never once listening to your well-intentioned advice, it’s only fair to do as you please with them. Fuck it. Cockhead weeping pre-cum, you shove the entirety of your length inside their mouth, head thrown back at the warm, tight heat snugly wrapped around your fat cock. There’s no gentleness to your action, none of that crap, not after how they’ve acted as you grasp for the back of their head, practically face fucking them. Stifled whimpers slipping into needy whines, curve of their throat rhythmically bobbing in time with each of your heated thrusts. Equivalent of a fucking glory hole, that’s what it is. This stupid, dumb bastard is now all yours and they’re gagging on your cock as though they’ve just been given the taste of it.

— “Fuck, fuck — Haah.. That’s my good fucking bitch. Keep suckin’ like that fer’ me.”

That’s right, balls tightening in need, pulsing cum squirting across their pretty face, burying yourself into the back of their sloppy mouth one last time. Your thick, sticky load dripping from between their lips, struggling to take it all in as you begrudgingly part away from them at last.

— “Make sure to swallow it all, you slut.”

And they do — they do just that, swallowing your thick seed with a faint gulp, dazed off of your fucking cock. Utterly broken.

— “Now that’s my boy.”

whitney, avery, remy, gojo satoru?, suguru geto?, childe?, toji fushiguro?, kaeya alberich?, scaramouche?, reo mikage?, your favorites. shit, i fucking forgot.

#bastard reader coming in clutch #i love it when reader is a bitch who does what he wants #i need the representation. alright? #top who takes what he wants with no remorse #top male reader #dom male reader #x male reader #male reader #dol #whitney the bully #avery the businessman #remy the farmer #jjk #jjk x reader #gojo satoru #geto suguru #toji fushiguro #genshin impact #genshin impact x reader #childe #kaeya alberich #scaramouche #blue lock #blue lock x reader #reo mikage #asher writes

[reasonsforhope]

"Glamour UK launched its digital June Pride cover this week featuring a pregnant transgender man. 

The cover features transgender activist and author Logan Brown standing topless with a suit painted over his chest and his pregnant belly on full display. 

“I am a transgender pregnant man and I do exist, so no matter what anybody says, I literally am living proof,” Brown told the magazine. 

Glamour UK, an online women’s magazine published by Condé Nast, launched its Pride cover issue on Thursday, coinciding with the start of LGBTQ Pride month. The magazine has previously showcased prominent figures in the LGBTQ community, such as Grammy-award winning artist Kim Petras and "Queer Eye" cast member Antoni Porowski.

This year’s issue “celebrates the allyship between women (cisgender or not) and transgender people through our shared experiences — in particular pregnancy, healthcare and childbirth,” the magazine explained.

The cover interview, which was conducted two weeks before Brown, 27, gave birth to his daughter, Nova, recounts the cover star’s experience with an unexpected pregnancy and navigating the medical system as a trans man...

Despite the backlash, the cover star expressed his desire to educate those who may hold misconceptions about transgender individuals.

Brown shared with Glamour that he is working on a children’s book and an autobiography that highlights his pregnancy, and hopes it will serve as a resource for other transgender people. 

He added that he would also like the book to reach people who aren’t transgender but “are curious and want to know about the situation,” referring to trans pregnancy."

-via ABC News, June 2, 2023

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Especially heartening to see this coming out of the UK, given the dramatic rise in transphobia and TERFism there the past few years.

Right now, it can be a really stressful and heartbreaking time to be trans. Widespread change takes time that it often feels like we don't have. But we're here, and we will always be here, and despite what it may feel like, we have made unbelievable amounts of progress in the last 20 years alone.

I promise you this: the transphobes are going to lose.

#united kingdom #uk #uk politics #trans #trans issues #transphobia #trans pregnancy #pregnancy #male pregnancy #lgbtq news #lgbtq community #good news #hope #childbirth #representation matters #queer #queer representation #trans man #trans pride #trans positivity

[ricomola]

A redraw of the latests stenka squad merch bc I keep thinking about these guys having different body compositions.

🌲 Hero type, pretty shredded from high metabolism. 🐻 Built fat. Muscular but also gained fat from those extra meals :3 🌙 Built. It's mostly due to training and genetics rather than diet (he's always had good physical health). 🎏 Moderate muscle and healthy fat. His training is focused on strength instead of mass gain.

#also now we have confirmation about Tanigaki being more pinkish and Tsukishima being more yellowish #golden kamuy #my art #stenka #sugimoto saichi #tanigaki genjirou #tsukishima hajime #koito otonoshin #male anatomy #muscles #we don't have enough soft abs representation

[meirimerens]

pathologic fest day 27

"Reflection"

Tropique du groupe du Laokóôn / Don't think too much. That's how someone else gets to heaven.

#pathologic #pathologic 2 #daniil dankovsky #andrey stamatin #peter stamatin #(gets scared) and who's that...? #farkhad pathologic #AAAH!!! #pathologic_fest #моросентябрь #pathologic fest #мор утопия #threefold bullet #threeandahalffold bullet #fourfold bullet #everyone is here really #héhéhé... ''reflection'' both as ''mirror'/''image; representation''' and as ''thought';''consideration'''.... héhéhéhéhéhéhé #every friend group got the [pensive homosexual] the [staring bisexual male] the [staring bisexual male (2)] the [fancy corpse (homosexual)] #my art #this would be my portfolio tag if i had a portfolio [portfolio tag]

[beanghostprincess]

I think constantly about Pudding and Sanji being obviously parallels of each other and how fucked up it is that Pudding had to live the life Sanji managed to escape but she constantly gets hate online as if she hadn't been literally manipulated by her mother through the whole fucking arc. But okay. Yes. God forbid women have any sort of trauma response and if they do they're not allowed to have a redemption arc because of course they're extremely evil for making your silly baby boy cry and they don't have a heart even though it's explicitly shown in screen that they do and they regret their past actions.

#sorry every time i see people hating on pudding i have to defend her with my whole soul #it's a physical need it's a condition if i don't do it i collapse #sick and tired of people babying male villains but the second a woman does something wrong she's a monster #ofc what she did was wrong and it honestly fucked me up too but give the girl a chance she obviously regrets that and she's not like that #i mean she IS like that she's a little bitch and i love her BUT you know what i mean #also even if she were evil like that ??? i've seen so many people complain about her as if they didn't love worse villains lmfao #pudding is the representation of a teenage girl with mommy issues and a lot of drama going on in her life leave her alone #one piece #charlotte pudding #black leg sanji #whole cake island

[despairots]

- “its just fiction” i love how u guys use that excuse every time u erase gay rep 💀

#⑴ kaz’s rants! #hazbin hotel #angel dust x reader #gay #queer representation #angel dust x male reader

[greeneyedgoldenchild]

Person A: "I'll slaughter them. Each and every single one of them until I stand in a sea of blood. I'll paint the moon red with it, so every night when maroon moonlight bathes their lonely graves no one will ever even dream of disrespecting you, my darling."

Person B, weeping: "Yes please baby"

#damon albarn is a representation of what a male Angel looks like. fact. #sterek #cherik #stucky #lawrusso #damon albarn x liam gallagher #hangster #shassie #obikin #derek hale #stiles stilinski #shawn spencer #carlton lassiter #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #spideypool #destiel #dean winchester #castiel #icemav #harringrove #bradley bradshaw #jake seresin #lokious #person a and person b #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker

[ffc1cb]

i’ve always found it peculiar how during meeting the chargers cutscene the game just assumes your character automatically understands what krem is talking about when he mentions binding (though, granted, it’s all very unsubtle). like, this is a roleplaying game. what if i want to play a character who just doesn’t get it

#dragon age #cremisius aclassi #inquisitor trevelyan #at least give me an in game explanation of why the inquisitor would Know this right away #it's not like transgenderism is a widely explored topic in da lore. the most you can find about it in inquisition specifically excluding #krem and seras countless transmisogynistic lines is one codex that mentions that some previous divine mightve been a trans woman #and the way it's written sucks ass. the infamous sex in thedas codex also mentions nothing on the topic of transness. so like #whats up with that #art stuff #before anyone says anything i fully realize how i look critiquing a bioware game that came out in 2014 on its faulty queer representation #please trust me i know. im just thinking out loud #ALSO. in case it isnt obvious. parsley transed they gender. the joke is that theyre a nonbinary femme now #its hard for me to show it through art because it would involve misgendering them but they dont actually start going by they/them pronouns #until after halamshiral. so like technically if i made them refer to themselves as he/him at any point before that it would be canonical but #its not like my art is chronological by any means and cannot be taken out of context by virtue of it existing as an individual post online #if someone were to reblog an art of them saying hi im a dude theyd go cool! hashtag male inquisitor. or something #the tragic case of sacrificing narrative in order to not get second hand discomfort at seeing parsley misgendered #ANYWAY..........

[mysticdragon3md3]

"Anime is GOOD actually!" By F.D Signifier

#male representation #analysis #shonen genre #shounen genre #anime #manga #fandoms #Youtube

[kanelia]

I am not surprised anime is so popular with people with gender identities. 99% of anime is extremely misogynistic.

#especially naruto #i have been watching it lately to see what made it so popular #and the female representation is horrible #every female character this far is either boy crazed bimbo or a toddler voiced shy girl #and the males have all the special powers and character arcs #if i had grown up watching this i would have internalised misogyny too #radblr #radical feminism #radfem #gender cult #tra misogyny

[greenvillainredemption]

One thing I love about mutant mayhem is that Leo has a crush on an April who’s not conventionally attractive. It almost feels like, because of the turtles’ isolated upbringing* he hasn’t been influenced by the popular western beauty ideals and just thinks this ordinary human is beautiful! And I think that’s really cool! Because she is!

*though they’ve clearly been exposed to celebrities and other pop culture so ?? idk lol

#tmnt #mutant mayhem #I’m usually a very ‘I’m ugly and that’s okay’ type of person #but that’s really only about the definition of ugly that = not fitting into the popular western beauty ideals #but everyone has something about them that’s beautiful to someone yknow #idk I don’t want to be out here calling this April ugly because I don’t think she is #but I know a lot of male fans of older turtles have been saying she’s ugly #and yeah it’s very cool that this teenage boy character has a crush on an ‘ugly’ girl #and I know I have no stake in straight representation lol but it’s just good to see the girl crush have unconventional features #though I will say personally I don’t want them to be together just because any turtle x human relationship gives me the ick which is fully #just a me thing I think like I don’t think it’s morally reprehensible to ship any turtle with an april or karai (03 leo and karai had me #shipping them as a kid before I even knew what shipping was lol) #my words #ALSO whoever voiced dr stockman sounded SO similar to the 03 him. I was cryin #i feel like this movie wasn’t the best I mean I heavily enjoyed it but I hope it builds up to more. the mid credits scene had me screaming #so here’s hoping we get sequels aaaaa #give me karai or give me death #SMOOTH LIKE BUTTER LIKE A CRIMINAL UNDERCOVER

[mradriannn]

Our community still suffers with extreme homophobia that is gaslighted and brushed under the rug. The hate is so normalized

#afrolatino #afro #gay male beauty #blackexcellence #lgbtq positivity #lgbtpeople #lil nas montero #lil nas x #lil nas fanart #gay pride #lgbt representation #lgbt history #black lgbt #blm movement #blm #gay black #gay poc #poc aesthetic #gay #transgender #bisexual #lgbtq #lgbtwriter

[angellic-critique]

Oh yeah, Angel Dust has a sister, her name's Molly, there are a bunch of speed drawings with her.

Anon I think you are the only fan of Molly as I have not sent her be mentioned outside of 2017.

Genuinely thought that Molly was like Niffty/Vaggie situationship because I had NO fucking clue what stance Molly even was outside of just looking at a distant glance over definitely not realizing that was what happened to the past 'Angel Dust Drag'..... The fact that it personifies into a woman that is barely mentioned [much like angel representing or doing drag in the first place], turned into fucking THIS????

I cant even begin to comprehend.... She speaks for herself honestly. You can tell that viv genuinely did not give a fuck about the implications here or the lazy design that is 'Hmm angel dust but pink girly'

I feel like she just became cut content considering there hasn't ever been a mention about angels' family besides his Arackniss

Kinda weird how angel is more focused and put down upon in the spotlight more with Valentino and less with his 1930s mobster Italian spider persona :/ Even attempting to make a different womanly character known as the sister of angel dust, she is still tied down to him and has nothing besides this rainbow vomit old design.

How could I not be confused over angels' stance on dragging while VIV can't even fucking make characters up for him without retconning over herself!

You want this mess of a character design to be made but not Baxter???? I'm baffled. Thanks for bringing this horrid 'writing' decision to my notice. Since viv doesn't give a single lick of sense about Molly I too did not realize that Molly was supposed to be the hyper feminized pink eyesore that was SUPPOSED to be Angel's DRAG PERFORMING CARICATURE???

Your ask has the exact same amount of punch as telling me that Blitz has a sister, they are underwritten to be one of the same since they're women obviously Viv just doesn't like writing women ! :/

#also she looks like she wouldve been hell to animate :/ #didnt even mention how turning a males DRAG QUEEN persona into an ACTUAL FEMALE REPRESENTATION is a horrible thing rlly #anti vivziepop #fucked up #trash askbox #helluva boss critical #hazbin hotel critical #anti spindlehorse #please stop supporting spindlehorse #thats like even worse that she was supposed to be his sister ugh 😑 #she looks more coked out then the character NAMED angel DUST #still #there is no characterization or bite to angel outside of his drag sona #im just baffled over arackniss and cherry bomb having more spotlight then the fact that angel is a drag performer :/ #i got into hazbin for angel dust because he made me realize i was transgender at a really low point in my life. #hence why the character USED to mean a lot to me alongside stolas but like wow im not excited over vivs' spark of hope for addiction #she can barely handle that stolas is a pill addict much less angel dust genuinely trying to kill himself through pleasures #vivziepop critical #please stop supporting vivziepop #spindlehorse critical #for a bit i thought they were the same fucking character #scopohobia tw #anti hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel criticism #leather with no mystique and lace with all the abuse blatantly written over :x