This is toxic masculinity at its most pitiful. How sad—and I don’t mean that with disgust, it is truly, profoundly sad—to let us all die because you’ve been taught that wanting not to die is cowardice; that vulnerability is weakness; that anything short of charging into the increasingly brief future, assault rifle blazing, exhaust belching, with half-chewed feedlot steak falling out of your mouth, constitutes some sort of romantic tongue kiss with a perfect male figure skater, and that a romantic tongue kiss with a perfect male figure skater would be something worth genociding the planet to
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