RE: That Gay Thread
March 9, 2021 at 9:26 am
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2021 at 9:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If you tell a kid he needs to be more of something, he starts to wonder what it is he's not doing - because he has absolutely no fucking clue how to be more of what he is. Maybe, just maybe, other men might be familiar with that experience? Was it a pleasant character building one? Do we think that it accounts for the well adjusted parts of ourselves?
Say you get your ass beat, and you don't throw a punch back because it hurts you, and makes you cry, to hurt other people. Daddy comes up and castigates you. Be more of a man! How does a child satisfy that directive? Does he stuff those tears to throw punches he doesn't want to throw? Does he go nuclear manmode with a weapon? Does he, instead, throw in the towel thinking he'll never be a man on account of it being very clearly beyond his ability as implied by his father in the exhortation?
Life lessons, huh?
Say you get your ass beat, and you don't throw a punch back because it hurts you, and makes you cry, to hurt other people. Daddy comes up and castigates you. Be more of a man! How does a child satisfy that directive? Does he stuff those tears to throw punches he doesn't want to throw? Does he go nuclear manmode with a weapon? Does he, instead, throw in the towel thinking he'll never be a man on account of it being very clearly beyond his ability as implied by his father in the exhortation?
Life lessons, huh?
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