I have a suspicion that a lot of cishet men are shy and reticent about challenging gender norms because they have this internalized idea that it isn't their lane. Go for it, yo. You have the best armor rating. Tank.
@Zero_Democracy Honest questions: Why do you assume gender norms exist and why do you think cishet men should challenge them if they do?
@josemanuel They demonstrably do exist, and cishet men enjoy a position where they're subject to much less consequences for challenging them than any other group, as well as largely being their own police force.
@Zero_Democracy Can you prove to me that they exist, then? I am what you call a cishet man, I know many others and I can't find anything that I'd call a norm that unifies us all into the same group. Same goes for the women I know. (I work in an all-women environment, so I'm pretty close with them.) Each one has their own way of being a woman and none seems to be challenging anything by being themselves.
@Zero_Democracy Also, what do we gain by challenging the ‘norm’? Why should we do it if, as I think you suggest, it makes us uncomfortable? Why should we do something we may not really want to do? What would we prove with that?