How 'expansive masculinity' is helping boys become healthy men - ABC News
Content warning for discussion of suicide.
There's also some "porn bad" sentiment that's a bit reductive, and for some reason the under 16 social media ban is being framed as a good, helpful thing. Even though in the next breath they talk about the benefits of healthy role models on tiktok.
Game Studies - Daddy’s Play: Subversion and Normativity in Dream Daddy’s Queer World
Queer communities have separated the specific gender performance of fatherhood from the actual act of raising children through the construction of the daddy figure. Andrew Schopp explains that:
The Daddy challenges dominant ideologies of masculinity by appropriating the icons of masculinity and male authority (jocks, leather, motorcycles, uniforms) and transporting them into the realm of gay male sexual experience. This appropriation effaces the boundary between ‘appropriate’ masculinity such as sports and war, and ‘inappropriate’ or ‘failed’ masculinity such as the gay male sexual experience.
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