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5 Ways Disavowing Masculinity Changed My Life
http://goodmenproject.com/the-good-life/5-ways-disavowing-masculinity-changed-my-life/ ^ | 12/2/13 | Robert Reece

Posted on 01/19/2014 10:01:51 AM PST by dead

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To: NonValueAdded

Or peed off of a 2nd story deck. My sons favorite.


81 posted on 01/19/2014 10:38:46 AM PST by Mercat
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To: Steve_Seattle

Right. In a mostly-empty theater, I’m going to get a little freaked out if any stranger chooses to sit in the seat next to me.

If it’s an attractive female, I probably wouldn’t object. Except that my wife is likely seated on my other side, and she most certainly would!

These are not examples of sex/gender stereotyping. They are examples of “social space conventions,” which vary by culture. Different cultures just feel comfortable at varying distances.

It is said that at a diplomatic party, it’s fun to watch an Englishman or American conversing with an Arab.

The Arab’s comfortable distance for casual conversation is at least a foot closer than the American’s. So he take a half-step forward because he subconciously is too far away. This makes the American feel vaguely uncomfortable, so backs up half a step. In half an hour or so they’ll work their way clear across a room.

These cultural conventions are neither right or wrong, they’re just different.


82 posted on 01/19/2014 10:38:55 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Ouderkirk
There is a fairly sizable distance between identifying a man as a handsome man, and saying he's attractive. Don't you think? I think the former identifies a characteristic, and the latter a feeling.

Excellent point.

83 posted on 01/19/2014 10:39:36 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: Gorzaloon

Probably couldn’t even dot the “eye”


84 posted on 01/19/2014 10:39:37 AM PST by NonValueAdded (It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
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To: dead

Dear God,
Spare us from the curse of unmanly men.

Thank you, metmom


85 posted on 01/19/2014 10:39:40 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: dead
Oh, Bob! You are a fag. It's simple. You try to hide it behind a facade of "cool enlightnment," but in the end, you're just a bun-spelunking poofter who's terrified of masculinity and secretly yearns to be a little girl and play with stuffed toys and Barbies and the Kenner Easy-Bake Oven.

Buy some stiletto pumps and a garter belt, draw the shades, and indulge yourself. Because your attempt to dissuade other men from manliness is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to universalize your pathology. You'd be better off spending your efforts in finding makeup that will hide a five o'clock shadow.

86 posted on 01/19/2014 10:40:15 AM PST by IronJack
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To: DoughtyOne

This is the feminisation of the male of the species.


87 posted on 01/19/2014 10:41:26 AM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero, and John Kerry is a mock-puppet!)
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To: gorush

Fat Boy, Bubba and Wildman.

I have a friend we call dirtman. He gets offended if we don’t call him that.


88 posted on 01/19/2014 10:41:45 AM PST by DManA
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To: Jeff Chandler

I was in the usual standing-in-line reverie. It was such a shock I wondered for a minute if maybe I had gotten too close. There are guys who get off on rubbing up against women in lines or on buses and such.

But I am most certainly not one of them!


89 posted on 01/19/2014 10:41:50 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: bravo whiskey
5. i will sometimes sit down to pee because i am reading a book or doing a puzzle but that is strictly in my house and not anywhere else.

Yeah, why on earth would somebody sit on a public toilet if he didn't have to?

90 posted on 01/19/2014 10:41:51 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: dead
This guy has WAY too much time on his hands.
91 posted on 01/19/2014 10:42:47 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: Steve_Seattle

We recently gave our son several of his grandfather’s bolo ties. He performs blue grass and country western music so we thought he would wear them. But he’s still wearing his western suit and a regular tie. And cowboy books.


92 posted on 01/19/2014 10:43:46 AM PST by Mercat
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To: dead

Well now, he is the daughter his mother always wanted.


93 posted on 01/19/2014 10:45:04 AM PST by ruesrose (The Anchor Holds)
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To: Gen.Blather

I go outside to pee unless it is below 20 deg F. I live in the country, no neighbors.


94 posted on 01/19/2014 10:45:05 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Hulka

You know, I don’t mind there being female super-heroes or whatever you want to term it. It gets laughable when they try to make it look like a 95 pound woman can take on a 220 pound male.

If this worked, every 95 pound freshman guy would be king of the high school campus, and the football jocks would be shivering in some corner afraid they might be found.

Our armed services would be turning down the 220 pound super-human, in favor of the 95 pound weakling.

If a 95 pound woman can learn hand to hand combat tactics that will make them much more effective, imagine what happens when they come up against a 220 pound guy who has also learned hand to hand tactics.

FAIL!


95 posted on 01/19/2014 10:45:19 AM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero, and John Kerry is a mock-puppet!)
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To: NonValueAdded

Joke from the Nixon years.

Sir someone wrote Nixon Sucks in the snow in pee.

The good news is we found out who did it. We analyzed it and it’s Henry Kissenger’s.

What’s the bad news.

The hand writing is Pats.


96 posted on 01/19/2014 10:45:58 AM PST by DManA
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To: Jeff Chandler

In my youth this thing would be giving up his lunch money. Having balls is more than being born with them.


97 posted on 01/19/2014 10:46:21 AM PST by Little Bill
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To: dead

Poor little Robert needs to be rushed to the emergency room immediately, and be tested for the presence of any testosterone in his body. I bet the tests come up empty. In the meantime, he can get a blankie, console with other womyn, and have access to a sit down potty.

Pathetic.


98 posted on 01/19/2014 10:46:36 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Yes, sitting down to pee is simply more civilized if you’re inside. And it’s being kind to the person who keeps the place clean.

For me, it’s my wife, and I’d never dream of being so rude as to let one of the streams hit the floor!


99 posted on 01/19/2014 10:46:40 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
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To: Gen.Blather
ROTFLMAO!!

I do, too.
You might like my most recent addition to the Urban Dictionary:
Glued**k
100 posted on 01/19/2014 10:47:43 AM PST by RandallFlagg (IRS = Internal Revenge Service)
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