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1 min readJul 10, 2024

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No. There aren't.

First off, a redeeming characteristic is one that counteracts or corrects something negative. So to say that masculine qualities are redeeming is to say that they counteract or correct their opposite.

Which would be feminine characteristics.

To say that they correct is to say that feminine ine characteristics and qualities are wrong. An error. A fault.

To say that they counteract is to say that fe.inine qualities and characteristics require being acted against in order to reduce their force neutralize them. Again, this implies there's something wrong or nefarious about them. They're an error. An aberration.

Blah blah blah.

Claiming masculinity must be framed in positive light or be shown to be redeeming and all this stuff, is nothing more than polite versions of male supremacist thinking. It's elevating the masculine and men above thr feminine and women.

It's the inevitable results of gender essentiamist thinking, which by design, promotes and demands comparisons to the point of absurdity.

Both masculinity and femininity should be viewed from a place of neutrality that does not compare one against the other and does not give value to said attributes over their opposite. Neither gender owns or has unearned claim to any of the attributes by virtue of being the gender they are abstractly aligned to.

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