How manly are you? (For the st8 ladies, how manly is your guy?)

[vorlon13]

you might as well go to JC Penney's and buy some dresses . . .

sorry

[Whateverist]

things that help:

ability to ride a horse

sportsman vacations in Canada

Texas drawl

non-officer military back ground

uniform

8' box on truck, no club cab, although a full size 4 door is OK

ability to use an acetylene cutting torch or a welder (but not one with a tank of argon on it, that's effeminate)

ability to get a tire off a rim without using a machine

You're looking for Putin.  He may be available.

[Fireball]

things that help:

ability to ride a horse

sportsman vacations in Canada

Texas drawl

non-officer military back ground

uniform

8' box on truck, no club cab, although a full size 4 door is OK

ability to use an acetylene cutting torch or a welder (but not one with a tank of argon on it, that's effeminate)

ability to get a tire off a rim without using a machine

I can ride, but only side saddle, or my balls get mashed.

Never been to Canada, but I spent two winters in Idaho in the mid-'70s. You can have that cold shit.

Faint Norsky accent left over from my days in Minnesota (born there)

2nd Class Petty Officer in the US Navy.

I jumped ship and left all my dress uniforms on board. Sorry!

My truck is a Chevy Longhorn, which has an 8'-9" long bed.

I can weld, solder and braze (I also do coppersmithing). I have an oxyacetylene rig of my own.

I have two tire irons and can dismount and mount tires with them. I can even replace tires on split rims. Those are the ones that can kill you if you assemble and inflate them wrong.

[robvalue]

That is awesome At least some hard data.

So.... I'm barely a man. Good to know. My wife was right.

In all seriousness, I don't go in for any gender stereotype behavior, so I don't feel my gender is particularly relevant to my personality. But if anything, it's more typically female.

[ignoramus]

I'll tell you guys a funny story...
When I was about 12, I was out the front nature strip play fighting with my sister ...

This guy (about my age but big/fat) walked past and started calling me a weak girl... I tried to ignore him and go inside with my sister.
He then started to throw punches at me?
Next thing I know, I've got him in a headlock and punching fuck out of him! I think he ended up crying on his way home? What did I do?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Alternate Scoring Guide:
If you answered "A" more than 7 times, you can get laid any where, any time, as often as you can manage it.
If you answered "B" more than 7 times, you can get laid occasionally, but you'll need to work at it.
If you answered "C" more than 7 times, you couldn't get laid in a womens' prison with a fistful of pardons.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

I shave with a blowtorch, and wipe my ass with bob-wire. Wonder what them wusses at Cosmo think of that?

[MTL]

things that help:

ability to ride a horse

sportsman vacations in Canada

Texas drawl

non-officer military back ground

uniform

8' box on truck, no club cab, although a full size 4 door is OK

ability to use an acetylene cutting torch or a welder (but not one with a tank of argon on it, that's effeminate)

ability to get a tire off a rim without using a machine

You're looking for Putin.  He may be available.

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Certainly I appreciate the humour of this thread,
but it does call to mind two articles I stumbled across, recently:

One article asks comparative questions about what "manly men" use as criteria
in their evaluation of the level of masculinity in themselves, and in other males,

which I've often wondered at, myself:

IE: who is more masculine?

A.  The very average-looking straight guy who is SO straight,
he only watches lesbian porn because the mere sight of male junk
is enough to ruin it for him,

B.  The gayer-than-gay "bear, seeking other bears" who can cheerfully
accommodate a toy the size of his own massive arm?

The Toxic Alpha Male

And the second article was written by a self-professed "bookish, skinny wallflower" of a gay man,
who experimentally spent a month on Grindr (gay hookup web app) posing as a "masc" (masculine) guy,
and was dismayed by the exhausting and sad results...
....he found it transparently rife with insecurity; a never-ending parade of comparisons and challenges to his masculinity,
which was, bizarrely, the apparent preferred brand of flirtation with potential hookup partners:

Protein Shakes and Dick Pics: My Month as a Masc Guy on Grindr

Maybe I could have started a whole different thread about this,
but I think it ties into the humour with which Whateverist made the OP;
I hope it won't be considered a hijack of the thread,
but merely a serious continuation of a humourous post;

So anyway I'm interested if anyone else has any thoughts.

[Whateverist]

I'll have to check out those articles, MTL. I'm happily str8 but I don't restrict fantasy/porn that way. But, you know, life may be a buffet table but you can't eat it all. I'm content.

I found the original 'quiz' on Fb a year ago and it struck me as funny again when it popped up yesterday. Your articles look more interesting. The concept of 'masculinity' and 'femininity' has always interested me and I've always found them suspect, societal cons. But what if anything changes in ones subjective life on account of one's brain swimming in more testosterone or estrogen? Very interested in that.

[ignoramus]

I iron my own shirts! ...........While I'm wearing them!

Boom boom ....