#and ALSO more capable of recognizing and embracing the masculinity i already have

[theradicalace]

I wonder what made forcemasc suddenly pop because I've also gotten into it and been super tempted to make a sideblog for it 🤨

i'm not sure myself! i stumbled upon it by chance on tiktok (yeah i know), but it's not at all popular over there, so i was kind of surprised to find the tag so well populated over here. i'll take it as good fortune, though, because it somehow completely recontextualized the way i see myself and the way i'm visualizing my transition path, in the most awesome ways. i've never felt hotter it's epic.

[lilyrachelcassidy]

Moonlight

Draco x Reader One-Shot

Summary: This is based off the song ‘Moonlight’ by Ariana Grande. During the bad times of War, not everything has to be so black-and-white. Both Y/N and Draco know it just too well.

Word Count: 2.6k

Warnings: language 

tags: @drawlfoy @eltanin-malfoy

Composing yourself had been more than a hard thing to ask for lately.

The Death Eater had finally taken Hogwarts under their control; famous Harry Potter, who was allegedly supposed to play a hero, disappeared in the depth of the unknown; the plan of escaping the school turned out to be an utter failure since the Dementors encircled and blocked every passage of absconding, escalating the disappointment over students.

Yet you hadn't thought of the plan B as an alternative solution, but you were sure, even if you managed to find one, it might take a few more months to figure things out. And you had to admit that increasing anxiety about your parents made you cry yourself to sleep at night. Despite your insistent pleads of the letters to contact you, you hadn't received any response or other sign of life ever since over two months of a constant worry.

And yet, it wasn't the worst part.

The Carrows, who unwarrantedly preferred to call themselves professors Carrows from now on, had decided to introduce their new methods of teaching everyone. And punishing for any triviality.

Once, for example, in Charms class -- which was the worst nightmare of a week -- you had been asked to stand up in front of the class and demonstrate a Crucio curse on the First Year who happened to accidentally bump into Alecto in the corridor. Obviously, you hadn't obeyed an imposed task to which Carrows only reacted with unrestrained rage. Instead of punishing the eleven-year-old boy, the lesson had turned out to be your disciplining session of torture for not being submissive enough. Although the feat had brought you more renown later on, which served to make Carrows more flustered, you still couldn't get out of the Hospital Wing for whole three days.

All of that also led your Occulumency to suffer, which was doubling the struggle. There was for sure no doubt it was an important skill to have, not only to create a mental barrier protecting yourself from uninvited intruders; but also preventing others' thoughts from leaking into your head. It was already enough of bearing the non-stopping suspense in the air. So, the idea of accumulating more emotions on your account would probably navigate to an outburst.  

One thing, however, surprised you. You had found out that people who outwardly seemed to have quite a reputation of cruel tossers were actually more decent and human than you could think. In particular, certain Draco Malfoy, who had been selected as a Head Boy in terms of this year.

Wandering around the school and doing the night patrols, he had happened to find you sitting hunched over, face buried in your knees, and sobbing brokenly at the fate the Wizarding World was faced to deal with. He had flumped next to you, without question, silently accompanying and comforting you in moments of solitude.

Two other times of your encounter had been in the library: spotting you among the crowd of students, he would come over and take a nearby place. You didn't know whether it was a matter of pride or disposition, but he had never spoken up, which you, in fact, didn't mind. At first, you had been a little bit dubious about his sudden influx of approachability. However, as to mute your suspicions down, you tried not pondering about it too much.

Funny, how the real nature of the boy who you had known for a nonchalant sneer and teasing remarks, could suddenly become so interesting and mysterious.

It was on a Thursday late that you were strolling up to The Astronomy Tower to see the Thestrals soaring in the air. Normally, it was around the time when you would be putting yourself to the bed, but too many thoughts were buzzing in your mind, and you knew it wouldn't give you much space to sleep anyways. The only optimum, instead of staring aimlessly at the ceiling and flipping from one to the other side of the mattress, was busying yourself with something else. The lack of sleep was due to nothing else than today's lesson with Carrows. They had thought up an idea of having some practice with a Confrigo spell which, rather unfortunately, was presented on a living phantom. As always, a whole hour of torments was disastrous, to say at least, and even after classes, you couldn't shake off the echo of troubled screams and beggings, which carried over the petrified room of students. That's why you were thinking you could swallow your emotions down, quietly and undisturbedly, in the only place you could wish for some private space. Besides, it was the only spot resembling the old Hogwarts you had known from the previous years, showing the calming extent of green grounds.

However to your surprise, when you pushed the door to The Astronomy Tower, noiselessly, you could notice a silhouette of a man already standing at the barrier, which made you momentarily flabbergasted suddenly considering an option of running upon a teacher. To save yourself from much too unwanted detention, you decided to change your track, rushing straight into your dormitory. But almost as you succeeded doing so, in the last moment, a person shifted in their place and spoke up before you had room to move.

"Pretty late for a casual stroll, huh?" At once, a feeling of dread ebbed away, and you exhaled deeply air you didn't know you were holding as you recognized none other than Draco with his back turned towards you. His tone was as usually taunting, but something in a timbre of sadness was hitched to it as well. "Shouldn't be sneaking out of the room on the patroling hours, you know? I'm the least of who you could come upon today."

Your dignity told you to say something in order to defend your harmless saunter to calm down your nerves, which benefited only your mental account. However, he made a point -- you could have been caught not only by some random teacher but Currows themselves who, you were inexorably aware, wouldn't let a chance of dehumanizing others slip away. And besides, you were a little too dumbstruck to speak, realizing it must be the first time Draco fucking prince Malfoy had uttered more than a word to you. What was a coincidence of meeting up with him just on the same day as you had been wondering about your atypical relationship formed within this school year?

Before your contemplation ended, Draco's voice carried on with a conversation, echoing off the walls. "Care to join? Seeing as you're already here."

Frowning to yourself at how surreal the situation can become, you stepped off the stairs with no more hesitation. You truly wouldn't have suspected the things would turn out that way -- embracing his Head Boy position, you thought he would send you off back to the Hufflepuff Tower with his dismissive attitude as it usually was. Inviting you over to company him was a top cherry you hadn't even considered. Truthfully, it made you feel a little thrilled to accept this offer.

As you walked over to him, his facial features became much sharper than from afar. Now, as you looked at him closely, you could define the contours of his face were even more angelic yet still masculine than in daily light. The platonic hair glinted accordingly to the moon above; his blue eyes were focused on a black void in the sky, clearly pondering more than concentrating on a particular object; a mouth pursed into a line, not a mocking expression he was usually carrying himself with. Eyeing him like that and still not being capable of deciphering him suggested he must be someone between a completely unemotional git or an excellent master of Occulumency. You preferred to presume the second one.

Quickly, realizing you were staring, you turned your head to behold a collection of vivid stars hovering above your head. You knew it was only in the Wizarding World that sky flickered so brightly -- your father was a muggle, and a whole family dwelled among a non-magical society, which you didn't mind at all. And that's why you were able to recognize... differences existing between those two worlds.

"Why are you here?" you asked curiously, not quite capable of restraining yourself from doing so. You were standing close enough to him to smell his sandalwood cologne.

He gave you a perfunctory smile, and although it was a three-second gesture, it somehow made you lighter on the chest to know he was convenient with a conversation. "Needed someplace to think," he explained, not darting his eyes away from where he was looking. He took a pause there. "You?"

"The same reason," you answered simply, shrugging. "My roommates can be too loud sometimes, and I needed some silence to sort out...stuff."

Draco nodded in understanding, not interfering any further into the topic. Brushing your hair habitually with fingers, you scolded yourself for coming up here in the first place. How could you act so irresponsibly to think you could smoothly break a regulations' rule and without anyone finding out? Although you were desperate to hide it, the presence of Draco made you inexplicably nervous, and even though you tried to gulp it down, your stomach was churning when he was around. Time proved his intentions weren't bad after all, and you confronted with the truth ever since he first happened to find you at the moment of your meltdown in the corridor, clutching to him as if he was your sanity. But that didn't dispel your doubts about him becoming a fully active Death Eater, who praised with a Dark Mark on the left forearm like with a reward for some kind of acrobatic stunt.

Your gaze swept briefly over the rolled-up sleeves of his snow-white shirt only to assure yourself the mark didn't disappear off his arm with some help of the power of your imagination. Yet it was still there -- as always, tinted coal-black, scary and blood-curdling every time you looked at it.

That evidently didn't escape Draco's notice who, as though reading your mind, started. "You know, I didn't want this." He didn't have to show what he meant by saying so because you instantly figured it out. You looked up at him, and almost invisibly, his skin pale as it already was, changed even to the whiter shade. "He has bait on me. All of this: assassinating Dumbledore; obeying his will -- it's not because I want that."

The sudden shock welled up at these words, and you gawked at him stupidly, not quite able to process what he had just told you. Swallowing with some difficulty, you coerced yourself to a mutter. "Why... why are you telling me this?"

For the first time this night, his steely stare landed at you, scanning your face to detect signs of emotion. You attempted to conceal it, but he could see you were thunderstruck by his unexpected confession. Without preamble, he smiled slightly at you. "I thought you ought to know."

Ignoring the clenching in your chest, you did your best to not break eye contact with Draco when his eyes were intently locked on yours now. You could swear, something on the verge of interest and sympathy flickered in them for a second. "Why?"

"Because you're the only person who doesn't freak out when I'm around," he explained carefully. "Every time I go to the library or appear in any other public place, you're the only one who doesn't glare."

He closed his eyes, clearly relived with the fact he could confide the worries he had been carrying for a long time. Breathing out through the nose and his lips flinching a little, his head spun again to the blank of the sky.

It was a depressing sight to see him in such dejection, and the images of him being cast aside by his former group of friends with who he had been laughing merely a year ago rolled into your head, try as might to suppress it. You could only imagine what it must feel like to be rejected by everyone around; to play the main role in something you never wished to participate in.

For a moment, you thought he was going to continue because he grunted enigmatically, but the silence remained. Unable to restrain the urge to offer physical comfort, you affectionately grabbed his palm, squeezing it in the reassurance that you were there for him. He didn't attempt to break himself out of the grip, which presumably was a good indication.

"I believe you," you stated, for some reason, satisfied with the fact you're the one to comfort him. "You are a good person, Draco."

This time, it was he who clasped your hand, and he glimpsed at you once more, towering over you with his long legs. "No. In the past, things happened, and to say, I'm not proud of them. Jeering, mocking, insulting -- that wasn't fa-."

"Past is a past, Draco," you cut him off, knowing where it all was leading, and you wanted to bring it to an abrupt end. It was the least adequate moment for apologies. "You can't fix it. Good that you understand your mistakes by now."

He hummed in comprehension, smiling, and his grasp tightened around your palm as if you were about to run off from him, which he couldn't be more wrong about. Admitting to yourself, you loved his smile -- though it was seldom, it much differed from a smirk you were accustomed to at that point -- and you secretly hoped he could do it more often. You also loved that even if he didn't talk much, he was very successful in lifting you up.

Therefore, there you were: standing arm-to-arm with your ex-bully who you had happened to run across; observing the moon in its full exposure; holding hands in reassurance. Both of you clearly enjoyed this gratifying moment and were lingering towards it not to end.

"Thank you," Draco finally choked out. "Thank you for...everything."

Ultimately, smashing the wall of uncertainty down, he wrapped his arms around your neck, hunching a little to adjust to your height, and buried his face in the crook of your neck. At first, your body stiffened at the sudden touch and a skip of the boundary, but as not to agitate him, you adapted yourself soon enough by reciprocating the hug. You started to rub the slow, steady circles on his back, and little by little, he began stroking your hair, softly grazing your scalp.

How long you stood clinging to each other like this, you didn't know. Hearing Draco sigh quietly, feel the rise and fall of it against your hands. Your heart sunk when you heard him breathe out, and you prepared yourself for him to mix out of the embrace because of sudden consciousness he was cuddling with a half-blood Hufflepuff he had been mocking for half of a decade ('I should get going'; 'I didn't mean what I said earlier; 'leave me be, Y/S'). But none of this happened, and he was only murmuring into your ear.

"I presume I should escort you to the dormitory. I could tell you were the whole time with me so no one would get any suspicion if we run into...anyone," he offered, yet you felt him almost grimacing at the thought of ending a moment you were two having.

"Mhm..." you agreed with no more opposition. "But let's give it one more minute."

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A/N: This is so typical of me to do something other than what's necessary lmao ;) The second chapter of Summer Nights is almost up if anyone interested. As I think of it now, this one-shot gives me such a vibe of Loud Places/Turn. However, I hope you enjoyed it :) Oh, and I'm explaining the sudden change of schedule with posting: 1. I'm very irresposible; 2. I got the super inspo to scribble this one-shot. Hah, sorry...

[madamhatter]

Just wanted to touch up on something that comes up frequently as a visible challenge Sophie faces: her seeming inability to leave her current circumstances and following her dreams/beliefs/etc.

(Head’s up: under the readmore contains my observations in the RPC and a minor complaint mixed with HC).

In all verses, this is an arc that Sophie usually goes through (or has gone through) that takes a great toll on her and takes a long time for it to be completed. This has a presence in most aspects of herself including her ambitions, self-perception, relationships and much more. Some are indirectly influenced by this like when it comes to romantic relationships. This manifests in her having issues with long-term relationships. This ranges from believing any relationship with her is doomed, relationships that do happen may continue existing only if she provides/she has use, and generally, it is not possible for her to keep one since her misfortune will directly make her partner unhappy. 

Overall, this aspect of her character is largely ingrained in her and greatly impacts everything she does and everything she believes herself to be. 

While this rarely happens, I get into situations where people underestimate or brush it off as more of a bother than actual needed development. In comments and questions, the general energy is quite off-putting. It undermines the circumstances and literal life-changing move that Sophie needs to take. It becomes a hinderance and gripe of why she can’t drop what she’s doing and go out there already.  (If you feel this is towards you in any way, it isn’t. If this ever did come up between us, I would’ve addressed that immediately. This post is in no way a vague-post and this section is more of my observations. Also this hasn’t happened in years but the memories creep on me.)

I know some people are peeved about this "opinion,” but it isn’t one. This a repeated offense that happens across fandoms and rpcs: muses who identify, act, present, and appear out of the particular desired spectrum of characters do get shafted by other muns/fans and/or get scrutinized unfairly by them. This isn’t anything new. It’s clear that a character in any series will get numerous amounts of “hate” because of certain traits, while a white/white-passing cis-male who they share traits with are praised and embraced the community. Moments of vulnerability and emotional openness with a character become common complaints about said characters. A nuanced perspective/expression becomes reductive by fans to being “weak.” Same goes with elusive and abrasive characters, same goes with soft-spoken and careful characters, same goes with empathetic and kind characters, same goes with defensive and caring characters who are not the fan favorites.

If characters do not exhibit the archetypical “badass” and do not endorse the power fantasy, they are usually not well-received by audiences. There is a persistently aggressive mindset in many fans that devalue, ignore, and undermine the variety of stories in a series in favor of an acute selection. While people may not admit it, this largely falls into the community's perpetuation of misogyny, misogynoir, colorism, racism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia, etc. that they could not and will not address. 

Just because you aren’t invested in a character does not mean their story is underdeveloped, uninteresting, and unimportant. If you dislike a character, consider the reasons why. Compare it to your favorite character if they have similarities. You may start noticing the larger, but unfortunate, implications that will arise in review or in the comparison. I.E., Is your favorite “not like the other girls” in canon? Do you dislike this character so much for not being as “capable” like the others? Why is this character be able to express their trauma through visible expression while the character you dislike can’t? 

This isn’t a “you can’t dislike characters” conclusion. You can dislike whoever and whatever nilly willy and that’s you. This is a “consider and check the criticisms you have about this character” conclusion. Recognize when criticism starts and ends before it becomes prejudice.

I realize this is left-field from the original topic and doesn’t directly relate to Sophie. But as I described, there are these narrowed funnels of tolerance for particular characters and if who you’re writing for doesn’t fit that, it becomes a hassle. A hassle in exploring character motivations, dimension, strengths and weaknesses, and just generally a harder time in getting anywhere for future thread/relationship/plot development.

Sophie’s background, personality, and conflicts are better received in characters who are masculine-presenting. People are more likely to actually understand the development and struggle too. They’re less likely to see it/refer to it as as an “obstacle,” which beyond annoying! Her challenges aren’t an “issue” just because she isn’t forward and immediately reciprocating to your character! She isn’t an accessory to a ship you want with your character! Her internal endeavor does not make things “difficult.” It makes things difficult for you to get whatever commodity you want out of her that benefits/flourishes your character. 

But, to Sophie’s situation and why she can’t “drop it” as easily as she can. 

Canonically, Ingary’s culture has cemented that birth order plays a large role in what is expected and possible for daughters. As abundant as the references are on this blog, the eldest daughter is basically defined by having no fortune or chance in her future. Any AU she is in would still keep these ideas persistent because these conditions are essentially the foundation to why she made certain decisions as a child that A) made everything about herself secondary to her and B) focused and drove herself for the betterment of her sisters’ lives.

The structure of everything to Sophie is her family; that is the only thing she has known for herself, despite the conflict she carries. That has been everything she’s known all her life and it has been reinforced by how the adults in her life treated her and taken advantage of the situation. She hasn’t known anything outside of these circumstances and only has been proven by her loved ones that it is something meant for her to do and something that she will keep on doing. 

Sophie’s biggest challenge means she has to unlearn almost everything. She has been groomed to participate with the world in a certain way and perceive the world in a certain way that places her at a disadvantage and makes her exploitable. The entirety of her worth has been equated to her usefulness and what she can bring to others; there is quite little she sees in herself that is worth something.. and what she does see as ‘worth something’ means it is valuable for someone else’s use. 

To challenge the foundation, her family of her current self would break her. The biggest trust she has is in her family and they are the consistent people in her life that she would not ever let go of (unless, it would make them happy/safe/for the better). To have to unearth what her parents essentially done to her and taken from her....The act of acknowledgement would make her spiral into a ways of questioning, hurt, and great terrors that she doesn’t want to face. She would continue with the construction everyone has made because if no one else does, who will? She wouldn’t even dare consider having her sisters taking ANY of the responsibilities she’s done or any of the unsavory things she did. 

After all, this is all that she has, that she can trust, they she can rely on. She is clinging onto it for dear life. 

To rectify the wrongs in her life, to her, will be a state of forever displacement and distrust. She cannot throw herself to do everything when she’s already a part of a system that requires her. To get rid of that system means that she is, once again, the the odd daughter whose destiny was proven right. She is the eldest daughter meant for misfortune if she couldn’t even keep this position in her late father’s hat shop and couldn’t keep supporting her sisters as she vowed herself to do. Too much of what she’s built for her family and their stability relies on her, and if she isn’t there, everything else will crumble, which would be destroying what she spent all of her life trying to maintain.

Considering that she will need to process that her circumstances are NOT normal, that her treatment is NOT normal, that her experiences ARE trauma, that her childhood and youth never existed, that the main figures in her life, that the few individuals she truly trusted used her (both mom and dad) and almost RUINED the family (dad), ...it is nothing something someone who’s into her budding adult years can handle within a matter of months. 

So, she lives painfully aware of it, but doesn’t move; she weighed the pros and cons and decides that it is best to keep where she is than leave. Too much is at stake, too much...

It is...really...a process. A painful and slow one, but not tedious and not a bother. It is a necessary for Sophie. 

[lostinletoland]

Jared’s interview in GQ Spain:

(translated by me, I apologize in advance if there are mistakes but I did it as fast as I could that way you all could read it too; now, enjoy his wise words) 😍 [Credits of the photos and the article in spanish to gqspain]

Actor, musician, director, and especially, a free soul. Jared Leto is all of this. Prototype of the modern gentleman and a living example of the positive evolution of the masculine model. Nobody better than him to be in the cover (dressed, obviously, with Gucci) of our especial 25th anniversary number. The photoshoot, with the realization of our fashion director Joana de la Fuente, took place at his house in Los Angeles and for this occasion the photographer Cameron McCool opted to use an old movie style that had been stored for years to achieve a unique vintage look (and analogic).

The actor, director, musician and ambassador of Gucci Guilty receives us at his home in Los Angeles to explain how to be a free soul in the world's most important cultural industry.

The best way to start a text, always, is to steal the first sentence from another one. Hence, I ask Jared Leto for permission to use a piece of one of the songs from his group Thirty Seconds to Mars: "Lie awake in bed at night, and think about your life. Do you want to be different?" The verse, which opens the song Beautiful Lie, could be the first thing that would cross your mind when you meet him. There is no other person like him. It's impossible. One night he decided to embrace the difference and there he stayed. Imagine that each letter, each glance, each chord, is a brick of the house where he decided to shelter forever.

Jared Leto (Bossier City, USA, 1971) is an actor, musician, director, producer and free soul. He has an alternative rock band for over 20 years; he has been a winner of an Oscar, Golden Globe and SAG; on a small table in his house he has his own head in a glass urn. "I have it; it's true. It all started after seeing that Gucci parade a few months ago — fall/winter 2019 — where the models appeared with those prosthetic heads. I thought: 'It's interesting, why not play along?', so I suggested it to Alessandro Michele [creative director of the firm]. He loved it, and we worked very hard with several engineers in Italy to get it done." That's how Jared showed up in the red carpet of the last MET gala, dressed in Gucci... and with his own head in hand. Internet burst. "Maybe one day it can be in a Gucci museum," he says.

His relationship with the brand and Michele seems already legendary. "It started after we meet in LA and see we had in common the same way of looking at things: we both dedicated our lives to create." Since then, they live a kind of "shared adventure" that also extends to the launch of several campaigns. One of them is the Gucci Guilty perfume, which Leto stars alongside Lana del Rey. "It was amazing to do it; we shot part on the porch of my house, actually." In the ad, both appear playful and close while walking through the supermarket or living with tigers. A normal day, a standard romantic date. "Well, maybe if the date is in Africa..." jokes the actor, although always maintaining a certain serious air, without forced laughs.

The truth is that Gucci is an unexpected (or not) success that has revolutionized men's fashion in last seasons. Michele has dynamited the clichés: the excess can be elegant; men and women can share their dress codes. "It's the right ideas at the right time. Now it’s the time. Michele and Gucci have decided it's time to be brave and explore. And the world was prepared to hear exactly that," Jared analyzes. It is what happens but, also, the moment in which it happens. At the end, our form is created by others.

As a result, Jared adds to his abilities the idea of influencing and creating fashion universes. Any other artistic ramification that he has not shown? "Well, maybe not that I haven't shown. I studied at the Art School. I've always loved painting, for example. I don't believe in art as one or more disciplines, but as a path." The truth is Jared can be considered a total artist and his connection to the entertainment business is like a relationship of unlikely lovers. Hollywood on one side; Jared in the other. "They don't give Oscars to people like me," he said when he received the award for his role at Dallas Buyers Club (2013). The tinsel against integrity. Jasmine and cigarettes. He would be the flower: "The conflict exists," says Jared after thinking the answer for several seconds. "On the one hand there is the business and on the other the art. But the key is to listen to yourself, your heart, your mind. What do you really want to do? A part of all this is productive, that works, and that allows you to do the other things you really want. It's a matter of balance. " He uses his position in Hollywood, the advantages of the business, to also make committed stuff and to reach others.

And he takes chances. Always. Right, Jared? "Look, I have never cared that my creative decisions implanted risks. It is absurd not to take risks. Big things, things that really can change something, always come after a brave decision, there is no other way to do it." The actor also recognizes he has never had problems with this way of being, that he has never felt "strange or trapped" by his art. There will always be "an audience that applauds you and is with you" when your creation is pure and true. With his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, with which he has been going on stage for two decades, the same thing happens. "We are an alternative band and my brother and I always talk about the same thing: we will continue doing it as long as we have passion. That's it."

Jared Leto is shown as the perfect example of that Gentleman that still appears in the GQ title. It may not be the same today as it was 25 years ago, it may not be the same as it was in the early 50s, when the magazine began to run as we know it today. In fact, how is that gentleman of the new era? "I imagine a person capable and forgiving, who defends dignity, strength, honor, kindness. I have an optimistic view of the gentleman of the new century," he confesses. Perfect to celebrate our silver wedding.

And where was Jared 25 years ago and where do he thinks he will be in 25 years? "25 years ago I played music and acted. I had dreams. I was beginning my path of creativity. In 25 years I may be dead and don't want to regret not having lived bravely." Boom.

One thinks many times that measuring time is almost impossible. That it is always late to see you arrive and soon to see you leave. We understand time, in the end, only as time it was. For Jared Leto the clock is broken. The physical, the mental, the creative. Broken. It doesn’t matter. And that is a great life lesson.

[bellphilip91]

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How Trump’s Brand of Masculinity Hurts Us All: It’s Toxic But We Can Fix It

You can easily find tweets, posts and messages on all forms of social media with horrific messages designed to degrade and humiliate women. And we just elected a president who unabashedly slanders and bullies women.

I want to consider the hate that some men have for women, whether in public, on social media, or in private, where domestic abuse is still all too common. These men seem to lack empathy for women. What could explain the lack of empathy that fuels misogyny?

Neuroscience suggests it has something to do with universal core emotions that men can’t — and shouldn’t — get over.

As a psychotherapist who studies trauma, shame and emotions, I recognize this kind of hate as a symptom of what some psychotherapists call “small ‘t’ trauma.” Small t trauma is what happens when the brain has to accommodate to environments that cause repeated emotional pain or neglect on a regular basis. The current culture of masculinity, one where men are forced to disavow their more tender emotions such as sadness and fear, is one such emotionally neglectful environment.

We can begin to look at misogyny as a symptom of trauma.

We live in a culture that refuses to recognize that men — even Donald Trump — have the same emotional needs as women. Because emotions are universal across sex, gender and culture, men (just like women) need an outlet for their pain, sadness, fears and loneliness. This statement alone will evoke protest, despite its biological fact and clinical findings.

Charles Darwin and William James wrote about the role of emotions at the turn of the century, but our society was already puritanical. In the time since, emotion researchers such as Silvan Tomkins, Paul Ekman, Antonio Damasio, Diana Fosha and many others have demonstrated the universality of emotions across culture, gender and sex.

But the mantra, “mind over matter” — which is code for “get over your emotions” — still dominates our society, at great cost, and mostly at great cost to men. The problem is men cannot “just get over” their emotions.

To understand why, we need to learn a little about the science of emotions.

We have basically two categories of emotions. We have core emotions, like anger, fear, joy and sadness, which are evolutionarily designed for survival purposes and pre-wired into our middle brains. We also have inhibitory emotions: anxiety, shame and guilt, which serve to block core emotions.

Core emotions get reflexively set off. We can’t stop them from being triggered  —  they are not subject to conscious control. If we experience a loss, for example, the human brain triggers sadness. If we win something, joy is triggered. If we are in danger, say a predator is about to attack, we had better run before the conscious awareness of danger sets in, or we’d be dead as a species. We are programmed to run from danger faster than we can cognitively process it. Emotions are thousand-year-old survival programs that work unless they are blocked.

Men and women have the exact same core emotions. We all have sadness, fear, anger and joy. We all have needs for love, connection, acceptance and emotional safety. As babies, children and adults, when it’s safe for us to express our emotions, they resolve and we feel calm and positively connected to others. But when the environment thwarts emotional expression and connection, bad stuff happens to us.

The source of men’s aggression

Men learn in our culture — through religion, family, peer groups, and societal rules — that their tender emotions like sadness and fear are not wanted, and worse, shameful. Therefore, they cannot be expressed without the threat of emotional danger, i.e., humiliation, bullying, etc. The emotions remain blocked in the mind and body and eventually cause symptoms of stress, i.e., high blood pressure.

It gets worse from there. Depending on the level of emotional cut-off, the more anger, rage and shame will accumulate. These toxic emotional cocktails cause symptoms of stress, one of which is aggression.

Science proves that both men and women need love and attachment. The research is conclusive. But in our culture, boys are shamed into renouncing their inborn needs for affection. We first see signs of this in preschools and elementary schools when bullying behavior begins. There is a connection between thwarted emotions and aggression.

When women become toxic for men

The truth is, men who hate women really hate their own emotional needs, the very needs that women are culturally allowed to display. Because many men are shamed into disavowing their tenderness, they cannot tolerate women, who in our culture are the keeper of the tender feelings. They must reject those emotions that women get to have. As a result, women become the object of hatred.

It feels better to project their self-hatred for the buried tender emotions outward on women than to hate their tender feelings inside themselves. Like a starving person would resent someone eating food in front of them. Men need to hate the “feminine” or tender emotions both inside their skin and in women.

Yes we can!

We can change the culture with education on emotions, redefining masculinity based on the reality of biology. Then men could embrace the full range of all their emotions, not just anger, without fear of shame and ridicule by others. We would see trends in rage and aggression towards women reverse.

Here’s why: When we block our universal inborn core emotions (sadness, fear) and needs for intimacy (love and connection) with inhibitory emotions (shame, anxiety and guilt), we develop psychological symptoms such as aggression, depression, anxiety and addictions. Symptoms go away when we become reacquainted with our core emotions.

I’m not saying that everyone who reads this will be aware they have those feelings. We learn to bury them and defend against feeling them. But we can recover. The human brain is both resilient and capable of change and healing.

Healing begins with education, recognition and compassion about what it means to be a “real man” or a “real woman.” Men and women with influence — coaches, mentors, politicians — must speak out about this “cultural ignorance” that people can ignore their emotions and “get over it” without paying a price in mental health.

We learn in high school that we have a stomach, heart, muscles and lungs. Why are we not taught about our emotions? There is knowledge available to help mankind find its collective empathy once again. And it will benefit us all.

from World of Psychology https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2017/02/08/how-trumps-brand-of-masculinity-hurts-us-all-its-toxic-but-we-can-fix-it/