Red Sky at Morning
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A few months ago I was using a piece of file sharing software. On the upload screen they had a picture of a guy that bothered me. I just didn't take to him. I'm usually pretty easy going as well so I tried to understand what it was about him I wasn't liking...
Perhaps it was the fake smile, the waxed moustache or the deliberate pink laptop? I think it was the contrast between him and another guy he reminded me of - Hamish from Braveheart (below right).
I got to thinking - what if Hamish had been transported to the 21st Century as a child, and instead of his Highland childhood growing up on the croft, he was instead brought in our society, watching "Modern Family", taught to shun "micro-aggressions", encouraged to sit nicely and avoid "manspreading". In short what if he grew up thinking that being a man was something he should apologise for, and feeling he needed to sign up for a lecture course in Gender theory to compensate for his existence! Would he be simpering clutching a pink laptop rather than a battleaxe?
My friend @Vixy mentioned that the elites want "Soy Boyz and Butch Broads". I couldn't agree more as gender identity is under attack from all directions!
I had to look up "soyboys" as I am too old to be in touch with these kind of memes, but Urban Dictionary helped...
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Soy Boy
^ ***I edited the OP here in case anyone thought that simply attacking these guys was my intention.
It seemed pretty harsh but I could understand how our soyboy got there.
Now - the reason for my thread -
Is there a positive vision of real masculinity (film, music, words or books) that we can offer the to our poor apologetic millennial to help him recapture what it used to mean to be a man?
Perhaps it was the fake smile, the waxed moustache or the deliberate pink laptop? I think it was the contrast between him and another guy he reminded me of - Hamish from Braveheart (below right).
I got to thinking - what if Hamish had been transported to the 21st Century as a child, and instead of his Highland childhood growing up on the croft, he was instead brought in our society, watching "Modern Family", taught to shun "micro-aggressions", encouraged to sit nicely and avoid "manspreading". In short what if he grew up thinking that being a man was something he should apologise for, and feeling he needed to sign up for a lecture course in Gender theory to compensate for his existence! Would he be simpering clutching a pink laptop rather than a battleaxe?
My friend @Vixy mentioned that the elites want "Soy Boyz and Butch Broads". I couldn't agree more as gender identity is under attack from all directions!
I had to look up "soyboys" as I am too old to be in touch with these kind of memes, but Urban Dictionary helped...
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Soy Boy
^ ***I edited the OP here in case anyone thought that simply attacking these guys was my intention.
It seemed pretty harsh but I could understand how our soyboy got there.
Now - the reason for my thread -
Is there a positive vision of real masculinity (film, music, words or books) that we can offer the to our poor apologetic millennial to help him recapture what it used to mean to be a man?
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