Why it is not OK for men to show their feminine side?
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A dad who says having daughters changed how he views gender is trying to challenge toxic masculinity with his blog.
The parenting journal Woke Daddy has become an online hit, with posts such as “coming out as a male feminist and why to do it” being widely shared.
In it, he said: “I buried it deep, deep down because my environment made it unsafe for me to be sensitive.
“They (men) are never presented the option in their lives. This leads men to associate vulnerability with weakness and by association, weakness with the feminine gender.”
33-year-old Ludo Gabriele, who is originally from France and now lives in New York City, decided to start Woke Daddy after becoming a father.
“How can a father of a daughter not be a feminist? It simply does not make sense to me,” he toldBroadly.
“I just want to live in a world where my daughter can look for a job and be hired for her skills, and not for the way she looks. A world where she is not short changed on her pay and where she is not sexualised on a daily basis.”
He now has a team of writers, but as the profile of Woke Daddy has grown, so has the backlash from traditional right-wing conservative websites such as Daily Wire vand Heatstreet, who claim he is “chastising” men who are “playing into the traditional ‘male’ role.”
And unsurprisingly, Gabriele receives plenty of negativity online.
In response to his post about why men should be feminists, he was called a “cuck for life.”
Another added: “Men are GENETICALLY meant to be masculine. MEN are meant to be tough and protective.”