NoOnesOnion87 wrote: Sun Aug 23, 2026 3:16 pm
ralange wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2020 7:26 pm
Has anyone sreached for info on how seeing men in thongs and micro bikini's affects kids? If so can post a link please.
Also what is up with everyone so afraid of the male body and it's parts. OMG! It seems that's all I hear and haven't even put a thong on yet.
Maybe with all this lives matter stuff going on we should preach MALE BODY MATTER! I'm being a smart ass or anything everyone life matters.
Just my little question/rant for the day.
Happy micro suit.
Personally... just my two cents in here... I blame radical feminism, which has been educating our children for the past 50 years and slowly ingrating into their minds that all men are potential rapists, and the penis is a symbol of male domination and oppression and the patriarchy, and that it should be something to be concealed, hidden and ashamed of. Also, sometime in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the prevailing attitude was that bikinis and thongs were something that only gay men wore and that if you wear thongs and bikinis, you have to be gay or a sissy. Since then, men who decide to break from the norms of Y-fronts and boxer briefs are creepy sex perverts that need to be publicly shamed.
I think this is an interesting perspective. I am very much an ally, pro female, and anti patriarchy; however, there are some sectors in radical movements that have gone waaaay too far. I also do not like rigid ideology and "isms" as they are too constraining. There is a spectrum, nuance, and complexity. A framework can help illustrate certain perspectives and phenomenon; however, there are always exceptions. They are not always the rule. I do think there can be and is a repression of the male in feminism (and even by mainline folks) that shame the male body - bellies, penises, you name it. And you are right, male body positivity has never come. All female/male/nonbinary sexuality is to be celebrated and has its place.
Also, bad behavior is bad behavior. Bad behavior manifests itself in all sorts of shape shifting ways - sexism, racism, and all sorts of otherizing and diminishing the other. Rather than there needing to be a rigid ideology around a certain phenomenon, just call bad behavior bad behavior.
The US is also repressed in many ways. Some of the repression may be tied to our early puritan origins/influence (despite the fact that the puritan movement has significantly diminished). I also think that this has continued through modern day religious groups (both extreme, mainline, and even anabaptist movements). I also think there was a backlash to the awakening in the 60's and 70s (starting in small ways in the 70s and grew in later years). I wish the 80s could have continued and men's string bikinis and thongs were in every major store.
I just wish we could normalize all or bumps, bits, loose skin, pale skin, acne skin, larger bodies, smaller bodies (for all genders), and that they would not be shamed.
I also suspect that some of the anti male / anti male thong sentiment is that they too themselves feel insecure with their own expressions do to cultural influences.
I do think we definitely need a more vocal movement of female allies to celebrate male sexuality and male expression--and it needs to be in the mainstream. I do wonder if some women do not know they like men in thongs until they actually see men in them. I've known female friends that never knew they even made thongs for men.
I do also want to acknowledge the trauma that some women have experienced. This is very real. And at the same time, it does not mean that every male is going to be like the males that hurt them. It also means that all malehood and male sexuality need to be repressed.