JFC if someone is this worried about their "manliness" or lack thereof, there's really no hope for them.
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So basically a church of assholes competing with each other to out asshole each other. Then they wonder why their kids don't talk to them and that "manliness" skips a generation. I am willing to bet these "absurdly manly" men are in the closet and over compensating.Using an iron is too feminine? Bitch if you want to be respected as a professional don't fucking show up in wrinkled ass clothes. Why do you think the army fucking irons? Because you look good in unwrinkled clothes. God dammit I am going on a rant again.
While all of you meme and joke and minimize the threat, a rising wave of disaffected boys has grown up under the most toxic of social environments and still NONE of you take this seriously.
When you see the world in ten years time you will kick yourselves for doing nothing to stop it now in its infancy
Stop what? Stop it how? Suddenly make every parent in the US loving, compassionate, and effective at raising their children? Or maybe we could just fix the economy? One of those is bound to work, easy!
There is no easy solution and the fact your dismissive and snarky reply is so upvoted is kind of proof that there is no fixing the situation anymore
The hard solution is to first deplatform their demagogues but since they make their media platforms ridiculous money, it isn't changing
There's also a significant possibility we simply won't be having real elections in America anymore so the chance to get progressive people in office to curb this is over
At this point, anything start rolling, it's already too late to stop it. Nothing we can do but brace for the worst.
Nothing more manly and confident than having to constantly validate your manlyness
This wispy-bearded Texan is in the vanguard of a movement urging conservatives to relocate to Russia. Last August, Putin introduced fast-track shared values visa for those fleeing Western liberalism.
Oh no ... don't do that. Us lefties would hate if all our manly men left us to deal with these Haitians eating our dogs alone. That would trigger and own us so much.
Well, they'll probably have manlier problems to deal with since moving to Russia is leopard eating your face speedrun, with examples such as Russel Bentley or that one conservative Canadian family that sold their everything to move to Russia and got their money stolen by Russian banks.
Zero sympathy. Zero.
c/dumbesttimeline
Let them become even less dateable, so us lesbians can get all the other girls 👩❤️💋👩
15 dumbasses in East Bumblefuck: *do something*
BBC: A NEW GLOBAL TREND?!?!
Manliness has always been a scam.
Source: me having grown up in the Balkans where manliness tends to reign supreme as a life goal
It's stupid on so many levels.
First off, it implies there is some sort or series of social masculine trait(s) that are in some way desirable. It gets even more stupid when this turns into expectations, like "you're a man, you should X".
It's kind of sad but not unsurprising that there's an industry trying to capitalize on the resulting insecurities.
I think it was a positive aspect of the MGTOW idea to reject these expectations and do your own thing.
I think mgtow pretty quickly became an incel movement, at least from what I saw on reddit.
This is a good movie, if you don't mind the blood and gore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Northman
It follows the life story of a manly man... not something many would truly pursue for themselves even if they had the opportunity.
Manliness is an ideal intentionally placed out of reach. An insecurity to be exploited
Only if your conception of masculinity is stupid. There are plenty of manly role models out there, we've just largely decided not to pay them much attention.
The manliest man I can think of: Norm Abram. His achievements:
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Made a living wearing flannel shirts
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Excellent beard
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Distinguished service award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology
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Built a sailboat
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said "Not roman orgy, roman ogee" on national television and got away with it
If you step out of line with what is considered acceptable (and The most toxic insecure men incent things to be afraid of out of nowhere) you get harshly punished. Learned this the hard way growing up trans
Trans man or woman?
I feel bad for the men that get indoctrinated by this guy. Just like a lot of people that get taken in by religion, these people are looking for some understanding or change that really can only come from within but the church is promising that religion is the only way.
These men don’t understand that there is no black and white/ universal version of “manliness”. We all have to decide for ourselves what “being a man” means.
I go with a simple definition: as someone who was born a man and continues to identify as a man, my feeling is that, anything I do is “manly” because I am a man. Doesn’t matter if it’s sewing, hunting, or eating soup (which the preacher in the article seems to think is not manly)
Being a man is eating soup and being able to say "fuck you, I like soup."
I don't know if I like soup. The only soup I ever had was cambells, and it was awful. But then everybody tells me that cambells is the bottom of the barrel scum of the soup world.
So maybe I just don't like cambells.
And also being so confident, you don't need another man to tell you you're a big strong masculine man.
In college a woman remarked "I don't know many men manly enough to wear a pink shirt."
We need feminism but for men (which is a thing that kinda already exists but we need more)
Reminds me of a scene in the Lone Wolf and Cub comic I read when I was younger.
I don't remember all the details, but there's a panel where the two most dangerous samurai in all of feudal Japan are camping out before a fight, and some rando is astonished that these high bred, noble, elite warriors are cooking their own rice. One of the two rips into him about self-sufficiency and how there aren't always servants to do your cooking for you, and what kind of warrior would just starve when he has no servants around?
And what does the article say? Eating soup isn't manly? WTF? I'd like to hear his rationale for that one, but I'd probably lose a couple of IQ points reading it.
Toxic masculinity is full of shaming men for random things that are arbitrarily defined as not manly. Nothing is more dangerous for a Man than not conforming to masculine gender norms
Pretty much how I see it. Being "a man" is being comfortable with who you are and not being scared about what others think. Putting a dress on and having "Tea" with your kids during playtime is just as manly as playing football. (And looks hilarious when you're a 6 ft tall biker looking dude with a beard and hairy legs like me.)
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that's like 3 layers of scam: church, manliness and absurd levels
doggedly backed the invasion of Ukraine, calling it a Holy War
Yeah I don't really give a shit about their concept of the male gender. Apparently it involves fathering many children, so that Russia doesn't run out of soldiers for the hundred years of glorious holy war it will take to defeat NATO and save the world. If you really want to reach the ultimate heights of manliness, try wearing eye shadow, practicing embroidery, and watching Hello Kitty while remaining confidently masculine.
So fragile, so scared. They are so terrified of being perceived as lesser men that they resort to this crap. It's just that you could only feel sorry for them... if they didn't suck, that is.
A younger brother of mine just baptized into an Orthodox church nearby. Is this the same thing?
The Russian Orthodox are in schism from most other Orthodox. You'll need to get more information to get an answer to that question.
Russian Orthodoxy was established from it's foundation as a fake religion that exists to keep political power in Moscow. This is very different from other Orthodox.
There's several. I don't know if the Greek Orthodox are doing the same machoism, but they're related
Always fun witnessing another round of people arguing over whose church is dumber.
It's a hoot. These Ultra Incels think the Orthodox Church is going to hand them a submissive woman. Sounds like their new church is a sausage fest up in there.
His Grindr nickname is probably "FatherBottom."
Georgetown Texas. No wonder
Texas, you say
So manly that they'll get deep inside you
With a manly helping hand, they beat each other's hard problems.
What's more manly than never letting your dick touch a woman's estrogen filled vagina? Nothing, except maybe letting another man inject his testosterone into your anus with his dick.
"But in the past year-and-a-half our congregation has tripled in size."
Still the same 2 dudes, I deliberately misleading you with that phrase and was referring to bicep circumference.
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