Masculinity Appreciation Thread

[SS-18 ICBM]

The essence of manliness.

 

[Dachs]

Speaking of essence...


Link to video.

 

[Narz]

whoa-dude, you/we can inbed youtubes now on CFC now (I kind of took it for granted at 1st to be seeing a youtube on a forum since other places I post it is possible).

"Women, uh, women sense my power & they seek the life essence". That's awesome.

 

[bigdog5994]

fire is manly

 

[holy king]

earth and wind are manly.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

What about water?

 

[holy king]

earth, wind and fire and water?

 

[Narz]

Water is more feminine.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[kulade]

Aquaman is going to call upon his aquatic comrades to kick the crap out of you guys.

Water can be manly.

 

[Bugfatty300]

What about bloody hemp sacks filled with severed grizzly bear testicles? Would possessing or creating one of those be considered manly? Because I think I have some cool ideas...

 

[BrendanM]

Getting thrown out of bars.

 

[Dachs]

Getting thrown out of bars.

...and into public?

 

[Narz]

Getting thrown out of bars.

What about banned from CFC?

 

[soul_warrior]

earth, wind and fire and water?

Earth, Wind and Fire are NOT MANLY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jLGa4X5H2c

getting thrown out of bars is also NOT MANLY!
throwing people out of bars, IS MANLY

 

[Hygro]

it's a good song though ^^

But disco isn't manly. It's very human though, sort of transcendent, which is why I love it.

As long as your skills cannot be replaced by a machine someday. Over specialization in archaic & defunct knowledge is not manly. That's why The Last Samurai was a terrible movie.

Not to say knowing how to start a fire without matches & other primitive skills are not manly, they clearly are, but you should also know how to survive in the modern world since that's where you live.

Well, a machine would never have been able to replace the genius required for my five examples, and least not in any reasonable future. I agree that archiach overspecialization is not particularly manly, but more important is that being a man is less about your skills themselves and more about why you use them. Being a man is about integrity and courage and creating. And while working in a factory, to be replaced by robots, is certainly not manly, doing so, knowing full well what you're facing (boredom, monotony, working for someone else's profit machine, and eventual replacement), for noble cause, such as supporting your family, is manly. Agreed that a real man always seeks relevance and importance; but the skillset is a means, not and end.

I agree your example is manly but don't agree a general cross-sectional skillset is a feminine trait. A handyman who can do many things is manly, just as a group of men with specialties working together is manly. True a mother with a vast number of skills & ways to respond to situations is womanly. I think have a wide variety of skills & high adaptability is part of what makes an ideal human being in general.

Key word in my earlier statement about general skills being feminine was "might". I'm mostly with you that being a handyman is masculine. I think we're more or less on the same page here.



Kulade is totally winning this thread.

 

[Sharwood]

But it's the Bears. They get anally raped every game.

Also American football is masculine

Yeah, I can't think of any sport more masculine than one which involves wearing a tonne of padding to protect yourself from getting hurt, and where no-one stays on the field for the whole game because they're tired.

Pansies. Rugby is truly manly.

 

[Sharwood]

fire is manly

You know what's even manlier than fire? Dousing it with your own urine.

 

[soul_warrior]

You know what's even manlier than fire? Dousing it with your own urine.

urine is for girls.
REAL men douse it with the blood of their vanquished enemies!

 

[Sharwood]

urine is for girls.
REAL men douse it with the blood of their vanquished enemies!

Problem with that is the smell makes you hungry. Best to douse it with urine, then you have all that blood for drinking.

 

[Brighteye]

What about Rupert Brooke?

Is there honey still for tea? Very manly.

Getting thrown out of bars.

Is for louts, not men.

Manly things:

1. High fat foods
2. Gas-guzzling cars
3. Guns that you'll never use
4. Red meat
5. Oppressing women/misogyny
6. Wastefulness
7. Belligerence
8. Pretentiousness
9. Homo-erotic sports
10. ALL CAPS
11. Doing nasty stuff to anger women
12. Uneducated opinions
13. 'uhMERcan Flags

A few changes:

2. cars
3. guns
4. meat
5. oppressing anyone
6. efficiency
8. hierarchy
9. sports
10. lucid prose
11. disobeying women's outrageous commands
13. St. George's cross