• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t even know what the fuck ‘masculinity’ means. Does it mean being aggressive, talking about sports and roughhousing with your friends? Because I don’t do any of those things, but I still think of myself as a man.

    A few hundred years ago, ‘masculinity’ included wearing makeup, a powdered wig and tights.

    It’s all nonsense.

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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      Masculinity is measured by

      • how tanned one’s nutsack is from baseline
      • how much one cares about beer and candy advertising and the sexiness therein
      • how much one beats and berates children
      • 'Murica coefficient x ignorant loudmouth asshole variable

      At least that’s what I learned from Tucker.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Every time a vehicle with an obnoxiously loud engine goes by, I say to my partner, “There goes a cool guy.” It’s become an in-joke for us.

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          See. We just ask how many gallons per foot it gets (if a truck) or committing on how impressive their speaker system is.

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      Masculinity is something masculine men never think about. Its just the operating system and defined by each individual. Wanna prove to me youre insecure in your masculinity? Start some navel gazing convo about what being a bro-man-dude is.

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      1 year ago

      If you want to hear more about the history of this kind of ‘masculinity thumping,’ We’re In Hell on youtube just uploaded a banger.