“Real men” aren’t afraid of a little lung disease. Seriously, I worked construction and people will give you shit for caring about stuff like that and wearing an n95 or god forbid a respirator. Hopefully things have changed, but the mentality I saw here in the US was exactly that. The very essence of Toxic Masculinity.
I worked in an office in a warehouse and there was a bout of construction that kicked up so much plaster dust there was a haze all throughout the place. I was immediately worried for the warehouse crew and asked my manager whether we had any masks for them, guy brushed me off like, eh, probably, check the supply closet. Zero initiative to get the crew masks, himself. I was baffled and honestly kinda upset by the disregard for their health - until I tried to hand out N95s to all these guys actively inhaling plaster dust and all but like two of them refused. And those two weren't wearing theirs the next day. Toxic masculinity like whoa.
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u/Conan-Da-Barbarian 9d ago
I think I have the black lung pops