I asked one of my (male) friends to stop using the phrase “man up” and he has been using “fortify” for the past two weeks instead and it’s just a little thing but honestly it makes a difference
and tbh it’s also pretty funny when I start to deflate in the library and he leans over and goes “FORTIFY”
Dude, fortify is bangin’. That makes things like you’re some kind of RPG character. Fortify is way better than “man up.”
thank you! I’ve been racking my brain for ages for something that captured the essence of ‘man up’ but wasn’t gender specific. Fortify works! :)
(also much quicker to say than ‘pull up your grown up panties’ lol. Although in all fairness, that phrase too has its place!)