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Reply #25: The problem isn't "feminization", it's fakery, superficiality and self-loathing. [View All]

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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-17-09 02:31 PM
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25. The problem isn't "feminization", it's fakery, superficiality and self-loathing.
Don't expect me to be impressed by "just playing the same game I did in college: straddle the line and some women will be attracted to that. It kinda works."

The reverse is also true. I'm as equally unimpressed by the ultra-masculine poseurs such as "outlaw biker" Jesse James.

Both are predicated on the idea that there's something wrong with being a man, and that to attract women one either must embrace it in a cartoonish way (to establish bad-boy creds) or reject it altogether by wearing eye makeup and painting one's fingernails black.

So, yeah. I dislike the culture that has socialized us to the idea that being a man is a bad.
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