Posted on 11/23/2016 4:23:40 AM PST by Kaslin
I enjoy telling people: “No worries, I’ll man-up and take care of it,” as the reactions I get plainly expose their politics and character.
If they are the sort of person who thinks “man-up” is sexist, homophobic, and misogynistic, as the mainstream media often claims today, they’ll grimace. They will even, if I’m lucky, tell me why they think so. (I say “lucky” because there is nothing as amusing as hearing a person who self-identifies as being liberal and open-minded trying to explain why you shouldn’t buck their status quo with a competing view.)
The liberal/progressive belief is that manly declarations should be censored, banned, and expunged from our minds for being insulting to women and, perhaps, also to those effeminized men among us. (I am, of course, using “liberal/progressive” as it is defined by politics today, not by the dictionary definitions of those words, as the dictionary definitions are about challenging the status quo.)
This politically correct censorship is at the basis of why manliness is in crisis. If being “manly” is akin to sexism and worse, men should then be something else, but the cabal of Hollywood, academia, and the mainstream media haven’t given men anything else to be. They are simply told not to be men. They are guilty from birth and so should just shut up.
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why on earth would I care what the Left thinks about “manliness”? They’re ones to talk. They’re all effiminate sissies with no spines. How would they even know what manliness is?
No one should care what what the left thinks. I certainly don’t.
“Grow a set” is another good one as being “open minded” is a very selective term - #MAGA
I’m getting tired of women telling men how they should look.
** Get a shave. Real men are clean shaven, unless they’re in the woods hunting. If you have to grow a beard, then grow a beard, but only another homo is attracted to one or two day old stubble.
** Chivalry? Actual women, not feminazis, love a chivalrous man, not a sissy. Chivalry is a warriors code. Think military service, veterans and men who will fight for their beliefs, not some metrosexual sweating in a gym, worried about his carbs and sporting homo-stubble.
I don’t mind beards on men, as long as they are neatly trimmed and taken care of.
Hey! Don’t mansplain this to me! [/s]
They can’t even suck up the loss of an election, how are they going to man up and take responsibility for their actions, illegitimate kids, spread of STD’S and their general Amoral life styles.
I'm in Montana, Jack.
When you come to Montana please tell everyone your theory on homos and stubble. Should be very entertaining.
“...but only another homo is attracted to one or two day old stubble.”
I’m retired but it’s back to the daily cold steel if that’s the case.
Scraggly beards on guys my age look awful, too.
Three cheers for manly men. This woman loves men, real men.
When I was 25, I was mistaken for a 21 year old, so I grew a beard, so that I would look older. When I hit 30, I didn’t want to look older, so I shaved it, and now that I’m 67, I really, really don’t want to look older, so I won’t be growing a gray beard any time soon.
“Scraggly beards on guys my age look awful, too.”
I’m at that stage, too. I can go from clean-shaven, wise and successful older man to slightly eccentric senior, to scraggly, scary old coot in just a few days.
“Three cheers for manly men. This woman loves men, real men.”
Same here.
An exception should be made for mustaches. Love ‘em.
I’ve always wondered what the basis of claiming “the glass is half empty” is somehow morally superior to the alternative view....
No man worthy of the name would listen to, much less heed, the advice of liberals on virtually ANY subject, let alone the subject of masculinity. It would be like an eagle taking flying lessons from a goldfish.
I think liberals want us all androgynous and interchangeable.
Hence feminist attacks on femininity from stay at home mothers to chivalry (but not aggressive sexuality, since bed hopping destroys marriage that tends to create male-female dichotomy).
The reduction of woman to fashion choices and breasts is demonstrated by transgenders held up as women, as if a man putting on a dress and bra makes him a woman or as if a man having massive doses of hormones and surgery proves the sexes are interchangeable.
The androgeny as the gold standard, though, became apparent when homosexual fashion designers started promoting transgenders (even pre-op) as women’s beauty standard. There are now several famous transgender models, most of whom are taking women’s places on the runway. Drop the pretext that the beauty standard is women starved to look like prepubescent boys - just stick the mentally ill man in the bridal dress and have everyone applaud that “she/it/they” is beautiful.
And they attack heterosexual men as defective women, toxic masculinity. Prince has been celebrated as an example of a man who wasn’t masculine, though there were debates on the left of “is he really transgender?”
“Three cheers for manly men. This woman loves men, real men.”
Same here.
Ditto!
These days, a fresh shave & oral hygiene work wonders when meeting people, like it’s unexpected.
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