Comments on: Masculinity Revisited

By: Stoner

Stoner — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:08:57 +0000

Masculinity is something that flourishes in varying degrees across a wide spectrum of humanoids.

If you’ve got buttloads of it, or it comes easily–lucky for you.

If not, don’t be phony or try to hard to fit in. Everything has advantages and disadvantages, and one thing I’d never trade is all there is to learn from being on the outside looking in and from having to question everthing from a to z.

Somewhere in the middle, Phyllis Diller is laughing and smiling, and there’s no gun, no flesh screaming out to be worshipped.

By: Tyciol

Tyciol — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:57:20 +0000

Learning a craft is a great idea Billy.

By: Coituz

Coituz — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:56:59 +0000

The reason why bond is so sexy is simply:
He is always keeping his cool.
Did bond ever freak out? No.
Did he ever get really angry? No.
Did he ever get a little upset. Probably not.

One thing that is really, really manly and extremely appreciated by wimmenz and important in chaotic situations is simply keeping your cool. Instead of slamming the wheel and screaming “FUCK YOU FUCKING FUCK” at the car in front of you, you should, in the presence of a woman, keep your calm and perhaps even make a small joke about it.

Overall agree with all y’all said and them article.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:35:43 +0000

Well the thing with rambo is is that it isn’t about murdering or having the bigger dick, it’s about a Vietnam vet haunted by his actions there.

I get the point, but you chose a terrible movie predator would have been a perfect example though.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:37:24 +0000

Excellent take on modern masculinity. I would agree 100% with what you’ve said here

By: King of da Billy Goats

King of da Billy Goats — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:11:19 +0000

I’ve got to agree with the author and YumYum, Do what you want because you want to do it. If nothing else, learn a craft. I doubt very seriously that there is a single guy on the face of the planet who doesn’t enjoy making something useful with his hands. Psychologists might tell you it denotes a need to feel like god, and I will gladly tell these psychologists to eat it on your behalf. Sleeping on a bed thats not only comfortable as anything, but bears your handiwork? Awesome feeling. Own a vehicle? Learn how to do even the base maintenance (i.e. Oil change, tire rotation, spark plug replacement) It will give you a newfound respect for the vehicle, and a bit more confidence. When you get to the point that you’re out on a date and your tire goes flat, you should be able to respond with cool composure and have the tire changed without stopping the small talk. That, in my experience, is the confidence women love. Not the ‘I AM MAN, I CAN TAKE ON ANYTHING!!’ type of confidence, but the ‘No biggy, this’ll just take a sec.’ confidence that a real man wears like a drop of Old Spice behind his ears.

By: Tyciol

Tyciol — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:41:33 +0000

Okay, sufficed to say, stuff like yoga, dance and martial arts are for learning skills. They get advertised for making you fit, lose weight, stronger, etc. Don’t buy that shit. You can do all that in the process, but if that’s your focus, your skill acquisition will be sacrificed, and you could do a hell of a better job by training focusing solely on losing fat or gaining muscle or whatever it is you want.

You can do that at home, or by joining a gym, get fit, and then take the yoga/ballet. So no excuses for fat Bob or skinny Bill. You have to realize it’s a science and each step their own. Not wanting to creep out ladies by looking unappealing is considerate and a nice thing, but instead of complaining how that makes you deserve chicks, you act on it and become healthy and pleasant-looking. It’s not just to impress chicks, it’s usually hygenic and lets you avoid some forms of sickness and survive a hip fracture.

Joe probably isn’t taking the yoga to pick up chicks either. That’s a nice side effect, but actually, he’s probably taking it to learn the skills too.

By: LolRandum

LolRandum — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:43:33 +0000

Actually, women are really attracted to these rugged men. It isn’t just men going around on steroids while women run screaming; there’s a reason they’ve stayed around for so long (demand).

The other side of the coin should be challenging women’s views of “sexy men”. Is a stay at home dad sexy? Of course he is; he’s taking care of the kids because he loves them so much. Maybe a man doesn’t earn that much, but if he works hard that should be desirable.

However, I’ve noticed a lot of women just want these buff, new age guys with everything all in the package. The whole point of adhering to these stereotypes is to be desirable; it won’t change until women change as well.

By: Yum22Yum23

Yum22Yum23 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:17:09 +0000

again, typo:
-like+look

To specify to socializing point, we both know that /b/tards proud of not socializing are just finding excuses not to go out (my case) and meet people.

Then again and all the argument could be voided by this, but people are still trying to figure out what the fuck humans are here for (I vote for nothing), so how could you define a man if you can’t even define a human.

By: Yum22Yum23

Yum22Yum23 — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:09:14 +0000

Well I went a bit overboard on purpose(REAL MEN are THE BEST ad infinitum.), my point was that it doesn’t really matter what you like or do, the thing is that instead of looking for things to make you like masculine, just assume whatever it is you do. As was said before, confidence is the real key, as long as you are confident that you are right to do what you do, let us take the male dancer example (however misogynistic it is), the win in it is that he does what he like and fuck people who say they look gay. To reuse and overused slogan “Just do it”

However if you only do things to get laid, that is just as bad as enforcing masculinity in my opinion.