Masculinity Appreciation Thread

[Annex]

Falconry: Theres something awesome and manly.

 

[bhsup]

• If you are a father, being a good one
• Protecting the innocent
• Loving your mama
• Crushing pop cans with both hands!
• Driving anything that gets less than 15 mpg
• The Budweiser rocket car

 

[Narz]

But it's boyish to be cavalier about it.

cavalierness (cavalieritude?) is, in general, manly.

 

[Hygro]

cavalierness (cavalieritude?) is, in general, manly.

pff no way! Being a cavalier can be manly, but being cavalier is like being arrogant and not so much courageous as fearless. A fearlessness not coming from an enlightened philosophy but an assumption of invincibility or superiority. Is it not boyish to assume invincibility, believing everyday awake is another day proving immortality (rather than another day closer to death)?

 

[Narz]

meh, being cavalier is only unmanly if you can't back it up.

False humility, IMO, is incredibly unmanly. A real man isn't afraid to say he believes himself loud & proud & if he gets knocked down by life in the process (as he will if he's willing to walk his talk) so be it, he learns something. But never once does he say "Opps, guess I shouldn't have said/done/believed that, I bit off more than I could chew". I real man always overestimates himself & pushes outside his comfort zone & thusly, expands to meet his own expectations of himself.

A real man isn't afraid to look foolish.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I'm guessing it's also manly to go about your daily life while under the threat of terrorist attacks.

 

[StarWorms]

It's manly to save another person's life. It's also manly to eat portions of food meant for more than one person.

 

[Sharwood]

Is it manly to be unafraid of a pandemic?

It is manly to be unafraid, but unmanly to be unprepared. Real men have a bag packed with three days worth of food, water, and other supplies, at all times, like me, just in case the zombies burst through the door.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

a bag packed with three days worth of food, water, and other supplies

It would be manly to carry a bag like that all the time.

 

[Dachs]

It would be manly to carry a bag like that all the time.

It would be manly to spend your whole life doing a wimpy version of backpacking?

 

[Sharwood]

It would be manly to spend your whole life doing a wimpy version of backpacking?

I'm with Dachs on this. The bag needs to be where you can get at it, not on you at all times. If it's on you at all times, that means you're weak and scared, which isn't manly.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I overestimated how heavy that bag would be.

 

[Sharwood]

I overestimated how heavy that bag would be.

It's heavy, but packed in such a way that the weight is distributed evenly. I could probably take anouther 20 kg packed the way this is, and I'm not that strong.

 

[Brighteye]

pff no way! Being a cavalier can be manly, but being cavalier is like being arrogant and not so much courageous as fearless. A fearlessness not coming from an enlightened philosophy but an assumption of invincibility or superiority. Is it not boyish to assume invincibility, believing everyday awake is another day proving immortality (rather than another day closer to death)?

Is it so unmanly to live by one's principles of life, even if those assumptions are clearly not good for you?
Who is more man: the devil who says 'better to rule in hell than serve in heaven' because he won't be browbeaten even by omnipotence itself, or the servile angels who let themselves be dictated to?

Sure, you can't beat omnipotence or the facts of life, but you can do your best.

 

[Sharwood]

Is it so unmanly to live by one's principles of life, even if those assumptions are clearly not good for you?
Who is more man: the devil who says 'better to rule in hell than serve in heaven' because he won't be browbeaten even by omnipotence itself, or the servile angels who let themselves be dictated to?

Sure, you can't beat omnipotence or the facts of life, but you can do your best.

Lucifer is way more manly than those pansy angels. If more of them had a set, he might have pulled it off. He was outnumbered two-to-one, after all.

 

[carmen510]

I like this name:

Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster. (Real person in US Army)

 

[Sharwood]

I like this name:

Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster. (Real person in US Army)

That is quite possibly the single most masculine name I've ever heard. His title needs work though.

 

[Squarg]

That's one masculine gun.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

His title needs work though.

Enlisted men face more danger than the REMFs.

 

[Narz]

It's manly to save another person's life. It's also manly to eat portions of food meant for more than one person.

What if you're in a concentration camp & by eating two portions you're actually taking another's life?

Lucifer is way more manly than those pansy angels. If more of them had a set, he might have pulled it off. He was outnumbered two-to-one, after all.

So true!

It is manly to be unafraid, but unmanly to be unprepared. Real men have a bag packed with three days worth of food, water, and other supplies, at all times, like me, just in case the zombies burst through the door.

Mormon's got you beat, somewhere in their religion is a clause saying they must store six months worth of supplies in case of emergency.