#performative man

i think performative males were a psyop. i think it was a tool to disuade people from criticising the world around them, first and foremost through a feminist lense, but also looking at classism et al. it did so by legitimising calling people out on reading, or trying to educate and better themselves. i get entirely that it started out mocking a specific sort of insincere person, but it has been adopted by the masses to mean a man (typically) doing anything intellectual or not traditionally masculine. its just calling someone gay again. i overheard some kids earlier calling their friend hella performative for like reading a book.

Tdpi Dave would drink matcha and listen to Clairo, I hate him

he eat this cat so enthusiastically and excessively like what’s up with that king not that i’m complaining but i can’t figure out if im a lesbian or not if you stay down there

I'm gonna be so real... This performative male thing just sounds like gen Z metrosexual.

so my sister and i were on the bus yesterday and this guy got on he was wearing a suit jacket with jeans, round ish glasses, a country road bag and he had airpods in and i said to my sister ‘hey do you think that guy is performative?’ and she was like ‘eh maybe, idk though’ so we were watching him and he just chilled for a minute then he pulls out a fuckass DIGITAL CAMERA and we just looked at eachother and like ‘oh definitely performative’ then later he got out of the bus so i tried to see what was on his phone and im like 90% sure he was listening to clairo💔