RE: Real Men
January 21, 2020 at 11:18 am
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2020 at 11:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 21, 2020 at 11:13 am)tackattack Wrote:(January 21, 2020 at 11:10 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Just trying to stay on-topic, lol.
I go with the "whatever I do" theory of manliness in my day to day life.
I understand that you're a fine specimen, but what specifically do you do that makes you the real deal. Do you sacrifice for your family? work hard? I'm certain you do, but are they qualifiers for real man status?
The beauty of the whatever I do theory is it's complete lack of specificity. If I sacrificed for family, it would be manly. If I didn't, it would be manly.
If I was knuckle deep in some hot man on man...it would be manly.
I think that you're asking about (and describing) a curated role model, not manliness™ in the sense of a brute fact of being. Some men are certainly better people than some other men. We could call them better men...but that probably doesn't have anything to do with their man-ness. That's not the part that's better or worse. All of us are level on the swinging richard routine.
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