It’s mostly stuff that’s seemingly directed towards teenage stoners - not necessarily at the dispensary level (mine is very professional and “artistic”, lol) but in smoking/vaping devices, some seed dispensaries, and of course “bud babes” which like “booth babes” really don’t do much to sell the product.

Passing means the world to the transperson and transfolk, come on. Again, I’m not telling people to subordinate their hierarchy of social issue importance for my benefit, nor do I expect other people to. I really feel like there is no reaction to this from a cis person that you’d want to discuss with them other than…

I’d rather deal with cogent (and pointed) replies that inform me, like yours, rather than mouthbreathers on any sort of internet sphere with a male majority. Yeah, I’ll just hop on reddit with this, I’m sure I’ll get something half as thoughtful and direct as what you wrote.

Pedant away, I’m better off for it.

And he broke that stereotype by adopting a hyper masculinized aesthetic which in itself is a stereotype. It’s not a bad thing, it doesn’t diminish what he’s accomplished and been through, it’s merely a reflection of how you can’t fight society in informing you on how you should be and what is aspirational within each…

It only invalidates the significance of this if you can’t hold two opinions about something simultaneously. People who can’t enjoy something because there is a critique within aren’t my problem.

HAHA, damn right!

Thank you, this is a way less patronizing way of saying what I was trying to.

I guess the most satisfied I can be in this whole thing is, it’s not breaking my stereotypes for what makes a man, it’s breaking the stereotypes of people who are stupid and regressive and reactionary, people’s whose opinions I wouldn’t even concern myself with if I could help it. But I have that luxury and he doesn’t.

And since I’ve already decided for myself that being a man isn’t about being born one, I now press on to other measures that we use to define manhood. You still seem hung up on perceived expectations from cavemen in Iowa and think that blowing their minds is going to mute the question that men still face every day…

Because gender identity issues matter to me, being somewhat conflicted in how people treat me as a man vs. how I feel as a man vs. the expectations of being a man. There are days where I wonder how I’d be treated if I didn’t look the way I do, because of the interests and passions that I have, a lot of which are…

It’s no small feat and the results as we can clearly see are amazing. But still, all his body and face tell me is that to be the ultimate man (according to Men’s Health) you have to look masculine and to look masculine you need the beef and the beard. If you can pass as a man so thoroughly to be #1 on this, you’ve…

Yeah, but why does he think that he’s doing so? Isn’t that weird?

It is special and unique contextually and certainly inspiring to the millions of people who want to bust out of their societally decided gender identity but... It doesn’t break a stereotype of the overriding mode what it means to be a man aesthetically. That thought shouldn’t derail all the good vibes from this and it…

He’s hella attractive, that’s not the issue. I admire that about him, verily I do.

So he chose to transition to a stock image of what masculinity is and is saying that he broke some stereotypes. It’d be like a MTF looking like a Stepford Wife and saying they broke the stereotypes. No, you just traded the one society foisted upon you for one society foisted upon another.

I tend to fixate on paradoxical statements, take it or leave it.

I can do multiple things at once, can you?

He’s allowed to look however he wants and he doesn’t have to be anything for QUILTBAGs, that’s not in question at all and not where I’m pointing out discongruity. It’s drawing the conclusion that this reframes what masculinity looks like and is. It might be validating to feel like that’s what you’ve done with all the…

Which to me, subverts the idea of breaking stereotypes of what a man should be. Like, yes, this is awesome from the transgender angle and from a personal angle, but in terms of taking a look at what it means to be a man, apparently its having a beard and muscles, say no more.