As a woman, it entails being aware that what activates your attraction brain is not just the aesthetic or visual, it is, to a greater extent, the mental, values, discourse, feelings. That a person is and behaves in a certain way and thinks or has ideas of a certain style and current also makes us seduced, like them, and turn us on. How that person walks through life and what causes they defend or what behaviors they denounce. What hobbies they have, how they spend their free time and how they interact with the world. What they show and what they keep to themselves. In the same way that it makes us reject them for the same reasons, no matter how attractive they are. Poner, in this context, is associated with liking, with a certain erotic-sexual connotation.
Opening the melon of feminism invites us to say from my perspective ---being a heterosexual woman--- that a man is a man by being a feminist and that showing himself this way, women like it. To a type of women. That you, guys, men, gentlemen, boys, show yourselves defending equality, denouncing machismo, rejecting misogynistic attitudes and not laughing at some jokes or comments, makes you more men. Makes you more people. A feminist guy is a feminist father and with his example educates his sons and daughters. That you do not perpetuate micro-machismos, that you do not encourage mansplaining, that you do not finish our sentences… that you do not see us reduced to two breasts, a butt, or a fuckable body, but a thinking and feeling body and head. Being feminists makes you allies, one of us, it makes you a team. And this is a winner, it's attractive, it's brave.
Taking a step forward and having a feminist discourse is necessary, being a woman and being a man. We are facing a very polarized term and movement that has detractors who feed this extremism. When talking about a historical, philosophical, and political movement, many leaders have appropriated it, and that makes it have a low reputation. We have a brand problem.
Feminist guys turn me on, feminist people turn me on, because they are brave, they have ideals, they are not algorithms or programmed robots and they don't follow the crowd. They don't laugh because everyone else does and they don't go in packs. Feminist guys are very manly. It's not incompatible. They also seek women's leadership in business, they don't accept that you earn less for being a woman, they don't talk about women as sexual objects, and they don't feel superior to them, to us. They are aware that they have lived with an advantage for being guys and they want to abolish this privilege. Feminist guys are the man of the 21st century. Feminist guys turn me on is a declaration of intent that places us in a historical moment where men must feel included.
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