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Joker
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09 Jun 2012, 12:15 pm

I am 100% man enough.

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09 Jun 2012, 12:18 pm

1000Knives wrote:

I'm quite confusing, my manliness. On one end, I do weightlifting, specifically Olympic style. I have a good deal of facial hair. I work on cars. As a kid, I had a MC Chris kinda high pitched voice, then after puberty, people were like "dude your voice is deep, you sound like Arnold Swarznegger or something." I know quite a lot about survivalism, too, so in crisis situations I'm pretty capable.

But, on the other end, I figure skate (which I think is alpha as f**k, but society does not,) 80% of the music I listen to is girly, usually jpop, eurodance, eurobeat, etc. I still like having my stuffed animals around, too, never wanted to give them up.

So I think I'm just confusing. I don't however, think girls don't like the way I look, it's just I come off "weird" or "freaky" sometimes (less since high school.) At the same time, numerous girls have commented positively on my appearance, and I've even been asked for phone numbers/etc, by girls. My problem is the actual relationship, I can get my foot in the door, but relationships are a different ballgame. Honestly, I'm picky, too, a bad woman can ruin your life, so I'm cautious.

Jean-Claude Van Damme is a skilled ballet dancer and Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoys horse riding and collecting art. I don't think figure skating makes you feminine any more than break dancing does.

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09 Jun 2012, 12:31 pm

Joker wrote:

I am 100% man enough.

Joker, I'm sure you are!

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09 Jun 2012, 12:37 pm

IlovemyAspie wrote:

Joker wrote:

I am 100% man enough.

Joker, I'm sure you are!

Yep man enough not to blame women for my problems.

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09 Jun 2012, 1:10 pm

Kurgan wrote:

1000Knives wrote:

Jean-Claude Van Damme is a skilled ballet dancer and Arnold Schwarzenegger enjoys horse riding and collecting art. I don't think figure skating makes you feminine any more than break dancing does.

Yeah.. Alexander Godunov, the Blonde dude, in Die Hard.. he was a Figure Skater or ballet dancer too.

The thing is, I've had to deal with this sort of thing all my life. I've never been a big guy, I've never been athletic (the only sport I was any good at was kick ball, but when I was in school they didn't offer Soccer once you were too old for kickball) But I hike, camp, fence, archery.. am decent at carpentry, plumbing, electrical and brick, I can hang drywall and paint, Fix small engines and electronics and clocks.. and can lift my own body weight.

But I still sometimes get mistaken for a woman when I go out in public.. it's maddening sometimes.

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09 Jun 2012, 1:27 pm

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But I still sometimes get mistaken for a woman when I go out in public.. it's maddening sometimes.

Growing a beard would solve that or just keeping a trimmed stubble.

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09 Jun 2012, 1:34 pm

Wolfheart wrote:

rabbittss wrote:

But I still sometimes get mistaken for a woman when I go out in public.. it's maddening sometimes.

Growing a beard would solve that or just keeping a trimmed stubble.

I do this. I simply use the trimming tool on my electric shaver unless im going to a high class event or an interview.

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09 Jun 2012, 2:08 pm

Wolfheart wrote:

rabbittss wrote:

But I still sometimes get mistaken for a woman when I go out in public.. it's maddening sometimes.

Growing a beard would solve that or just keeping a trimmed stubble.

I hate facial hair. My father had facial hair. I hate my father. I HATE facial hair.

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09 Jun 2012, 2:39 pm

echinopsis wrote:

id rather define attractive manlyness as calm, independent, confident about his beliefs and decisions, not too chatty, rational, sensible and maybe a bit grumpy sometimes.

Hrrrm. That's just maturity, not masculinity. At least that's the way I perceive it.

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09 Jun 2012, 2:48 pm

edgewaters wrote:

echinopsis wrote:

id rather define attractive manlyness as calm, independent, confident about his beliefs and decisions, not too chatty, rational, sensible and maybe a bit grumpy sometimes.

Hrrrm. That's just maturity, not masculinity. At least that's the way I perceive it.

I was thinking the same. But masculinity is hard to define as a field. same goes for femininity. The things that come to mind are stupid stereotypes. Not things that actually define how each gender acts.

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09 Jun 2012, 3:26 pm

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I had a cheeseburger last night, a really good gourmet one with pickles, dijonaise etc.

WTF is dijonaise? Fufu cheeseburgers don't count! :twisted:

Dijonaise is a spread that's a mix of dijon mustard and mayonnaise. Other than that, I got nuthin'. {'Cause I'm a woman.}

I suspected as much. Look, real men do not use dijonaise as a condiment. We don't use Dijon mustard, either; if we want to use mustard on our completely hetero weiners and buns, we use French's classic yellow mustard (Plochman's or Heinz is acceptable in a pinch, and any Jack Daniels mustard is acceptable automatically, but any mustard with a friggin' French flag on the bottle is too fufu). We never use mayonnaise because there's something slightly homoerotic about a man ingesting a white, creamy substance (see also Alfredo sauce, named after an Italian man named Alfred).

I pretend not to even know what Dijon mustard is when around other guys. This is part of the Man Code.

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09 Jun 2012, 4:03 pm

So.. what you're equating "Manliness" with is actually low brow Americanism bought from Wal-Mart.

Got it.

I'm definitely not that.

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09 Jun 2012, 4:04 pm

NeantHumain wrote:

mv wrote:

NeantHumain wrote:

nostromo wrote:

I had a cheeseburger last night, a really good gourmet one with pickles, dijonaise etc.

WTF is dijonaise? Fufu cheeseburgers don't count! :twisted:

Dijonaise is a spread that's a mix of dijon mustard and mayonnaise. Other than that, I got nuthin'. {'Cause I'm a woman.}

Bro, you gotta use the mustard that's brown and spicy, like Gulden's. Anything else is for meterosexuals. Seriously that's the only kinda mustard I like, though.

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09 Jun 2012, 4:31 pm

rabbittss wrote:

So.. what you're equating "Manliness" with is actually low brown Americanism bought from Wal-Mart.

Got it.

I'm definitely not that.