Triz and Masculinity

OneTriz finds masculinity a very important and relevant topic in her life. She often has what she considers "hypermasculine fantasies" where femininity is completely irrelevant and unheard of. Especially as of 2021, she imagines herself as a man in these fantasies. The thing that OneTriz considers the most masculine trait is courage. This can be seen as a theme in the Enneagram type 6, she considers people to have 6 traits but give into the fear to have femaleness, even if they have other masculine traits and behaviors. Other masculine traits include restraint and self-control, tendency to be different from the mainstream, and sophistication.

However, OneTriz now acknowledges that masculinity is not inherent. She used to have an idea called "neurological masculinity" where only things that were considered masculine in a neurological sense counted such as spatial-mathematical intelligence. She believed in this because she disliked what she thought of as "irrelevant and abstract" definitions of masculinity. She changed this mindset after reflecting on what masculinity meant. She realized that there were many transgender women who had 'neurological masculinity' but definitely did not have maleness.

OneTriz considers masculinity in women different from masculinity in men. She believes that most masculine women are like that naturally or because they want to fit a butch aesthetic, and hence have more femaleness than maleness. However, she finds that masculinity in men is often earned. She finds that many guys try to observe masculine men and try to emulate that, and it works. She considers the difference in the female mentality and the male mentality with these two quotes.

"One does not become a woman, but rather, is born one."

"One is not born as a man, but rather, becomes one."

OneTriz from this concludes that people tend to dislike transgender women because they have to try to be women, but not transgender men as trying to be a man is natural for a man. Another thing that OneTriz observes in masculinity is role-adaptivity, which can be seen as a facet of the PASF. She observes that 'alpah males' seem to know their role in their group, while guys who get bullied often don't know what they're doing. She was actually going to elaborate on this, but felt as if she needed to gather more data.

All of this affects OneTriz in a way that she is trying to learn how to be a man and mature herself. She feels as if masculinity and manhood is more right for her than femininity and womanhood.