Reply #269: "The guy" is an amalgam of the type of guy who creates a persona on the fly

[lumberjack_jeff]

based both on the audience and their stereotypes in the absence of any resilient sense of self.

But your contention that there are only two kinds of guys; macho assholes and the hairless artsy/sensitive types with highly developed senses of style that the assholes make fun of, is a sizeable part of the problem.

I don't feel a psychological need for that kind of validation, so I guess I have to pick, a) asshole.

But, that said, I'm not going to internalize anyone else's world view. I know what I'm about.