Well, if you want a progressive Nietzschean masculinity, you could certainly go for a very obvious option: Dionysos, a figure who represents trauma and rebirth, fragility and bull-like power, and masculinity *and* femininity (androgyny coded into his birth story, celebrated by epithets)--who sacrifices no virility to being, quite frankly, flamboyant as fuck.
There are many Nietzsches, and the one you were drawn to is certainly *there*. (As is the Nietzsche that captures us feminists.) But is he the best potential masculine archetype Nietzsche has to offer? Dionysos was his tragic endgame. You have to relinquish everything to be Dionysos, including traditional patriarchal power, but the prize you get is meaning. I suggest you all head that direction--I know I am.
Well, if you want a progressive Nietzschean masculinity, you could certainly go for a very obvious option: Dionysos, a figure who represents trauma and rebirth, fragility and bull-like power, and masculinity *and* femininity (androgyny coded into his birth story, celebrated by epithets)--who sacrifices no virility to being, quite frankly, flamboyant as fuck.
There are many Nietzsches, and the one you were drawn to is certainly *there*. (As is the Nietzsche that captures us feminists.) But is he the best potential masculine archetype Nietzsche has to offer? Dionysos was his tragic endgame. You have to relinquish everything to be Dionysos, including traditional patriarchal power, but the prize you get is meaning. I suggest you all head that direction--I know I am.
Because he offered an emulation of the Aryan superman apocrypha.
Though in the end, because of an abused horse, it all caved in on him. :)