@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 1:23

Flower Power

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And what you will see is that these string of black men who received this flower took to it to be very offensive because they thought it was feminine of them to receive such a flower. And it got me to thinking about hypermasculinity in black culture and how a simple flower, if I was to give a guy a flower, I possibly could lose my life, depending on what neighborhood I am in

The sad realities of black masculinty in America, presented by a simple flower. https://s.swell.life/STinVjG46fl03SI

@Andrea_Speaks
Andrea Piggue
@Andrea_Speaks · 3:34

@FryedOreo

You could have just given them to your girl. You could have took them home and give them to her. And it makes me sad that that's the state that a lot of people are in, that someone just can't do something nice without them. Tripping and is your masculinity that much in jeopardy that you can't accept a simple flower? Me, personally, I wouldn't think less of a man. If I bought a man flower and he said that to me, I would be offended
@OmegaStrange
Demarkis Klan Destine
@OmegaStrange · 4:56
They feel that Adam 22, he lost his manhood. They calling him gay. I don't know how you're gay for letting another man have sex with your wife if you're not involved, but they calling him gay. But when it comes to the white YouTubers, they seem to not really care about it as much as the black YouTubers. So if we want to fix this the way how we think of masculinity, do we have to change the culture?
@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:33

@Andrea_Speaks

And I didn't see them mysteriously gone and found out that a family member sold them for crack or some shit like that. I didn't go through that. So maybe that's why I can recoil when I see the reaction from these men over receiving a flower from a man. I would have just said thank you. In fact, I'm looking into getting flowers for my household just to brighten the scenery. Some men might say, that's kind of fruity, that's feminine
@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:22

@OmegaStrange

These killers, they will react in a way that can give them viral hits to which I am able to watch it. But underneath, it's nothing more than what blacks are used to being the entertainment for a culture that is not their own. I can't blame us, though. We've been through so much trauma to begin with, that any sense of normalcy is nothing but a TV show. We watch something else, something that someone else imagined
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