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November 04, 2003
Real men fear pussification!
I just read Kim du Toit's post on manhood, and I have to admit to being a tad annoyed. While du Toit makes some good points, the overall tone strikes me as one of bullying and attempted argument by intimidation, and I don't like being bullied. You know the definition of homosexual men we used in Chicago? "Men with small dogs who own very tidy apartments."Gee, thanks for telling me I don't have to be a cartoon! I don't like having homos defined for me or being told what to think or what to buy or read or what to drink -- or how to "be a man." I reject all forms of control, whether by women, leftists, rightists, the gay movement, self-styled "real men" -- or Kim du Toit. I am sick of being told that "homos" are not men and all the rest of it. Sick of listening to drivel about how I should conduct my life. I take care of my own business and I don't appreciate gratuitous advice on "manhood." Women have not pussified anybody (especially the "us" to which I don't belong and don't want to belong), and if some men have pussified themselves it's their own individual fucking business. There's too much use of the word "we" in this post, and it makes me very suspicious when people try to tell me what "we" have done wrong. I use the word occasionally and I shouldn't. But this is just plain heavyhanded. Reminds me of the gay, self-appointed Stalinist "leaders" who greeted me with boos, jeers and catcalls for owning guns. Of leftists who called me a "traitor" when I was on the Berkeley Police Review Commission for not going along with their version of "we." If du Toit does not consider me a man, what the hell am I supposed to do about that? Wallow in fear? Try to conform myself to his values? Sorry, but when I feel insulted and bullied I must protest. Nobody "makes a man" out of me! That stuff is for mindless sheep and wannabe nerds. You wanna know who I think is a real man? My blogfather, that's who. He's more of a man than all these people who run around blaming homos and women for their insecurities. This "real man" bullshit comes on top of an insulting test which tells me I am not enough of a Metrosexual! You're an average Joe. Almost wallpaper. You shop at the mall, furnish your home at the department store and spend your weekends watching sports. If you were any more plain, you'd be Al Gore. From Andrew Ian Dodge, via Dean Esmay. If the world is so determined to grade me I must try harder to disappoint them. posted by Eric on 11.04.03 at 06:30 PM
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Oh no! Don't tell me your'e one of those gay gun-owners too? Aaaaack! They're taking over!!!! Dean Esmay · November 4, 2003 10:17 PM Well I live in London so it might be a tad different. But I smoke churchill maduro cigars, drink champagne, don't have that tidy a flat and don't but self-help books. I exfoliate, use hair care products, wear waistcoasts and cravaets. I open doors for ladies, drink to excess at times and like to drive fast. I thought the poll was good for a laugh. Andrew Ian Dodge · November 5, 2003 02:38 AM Wow, thanks for the comments. Tim, glad to hear from my favorite Calvinist! Dean, while I am not sure that gay gun nuts will ever have the numbers to take over, they are a very dangerous phenomenon because, having been rejected by both side of what passes for the political spectrum, they cannot be controlled and are not easily intimidated. Socially and politically outside the sweep of society's radar, beyond conventional social controls, yet still at liberty to advocate freedom on the Internet, gay gun nuts represent a gritty form of home-grown independence not seen in this country since pioneer days. This must be stopped, of course.... Eric Scheie · November 5, 2003 05:51 AM No, we *definitely* don't want to have independent-thinking citizens. Next thing you know, they'll get together and solve social problems themselves. Then how will the Elect Ones in Washington DC be able to justify taking our money? If we're not careful, democracy just might break out. Tim · November 5, 2003 11:35 AM Hah.. what the world needs is more gay gun nuts.. preferably ones who have stereotypical good taste in hip-hugging leather holsters and stuff like that :-) Seriously though, while I enjoyed Kims post for the rant-effect, I had some issues with his description of what real men should be like. (see response-rant here). I also don't see how being gay necessarily precludes you from being a man. There's much more to being a man than the desire to pork the chickadees (heh) Suman Palit · November 5, 2003 11:40 PM ROWR!! Get em, Eric. Bully for you! D David Strain · November 6, 2003 04:20 PM I'm proud to say that I flunked both that stupid fop test and Mr. du Toit's he-man test. I'm proud to say that I was a sissy when I was a boy. I'm a short, skinny little ectomorph. I know next to nothing about sports, though I like to watch women's sports occasionally. I played with girls, loved stories (such as L. Frank Baum's Oz books) in which girls were the central characters, and even once made a doll for myself out of a pencil and a foam-rubber ball. I have a vast collection of brightly colored key-rings, pens, party favors, toys, etc., etc., filling bins and scattered all over my condo, plus lots of good books on color and design. I am at least 90% gynosexual. I used to fantasize sex with the woman on top a lot, but all my fantasies for the past several months at least have been entirely about Lesbians. Steven Malcolm Anderson · November 8, 2003 12:53 PM "You don't have to become a fucking cartoon male, either: I'm not going back to stoning women for adultery like those Muslim assholes do..." What cartoon is he referring to? I've never heard of Andy Capp or Dagwood Bumstead stong anybody! Steven Malcolm Anderson · November 8, 2003 12:57 PM |
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I quite agree, Eric. Gays are supposed to be flamboyant and fashion-sensitive; straight men must not like physical contact and must be "strong and silent". It hurts straights by depriving us of our human need to show emotion and affection; it hurts gays by pigeonholing them in similar ways. I can be flamboyant, I'm an unabashed lover of chick flicks, and I'm perfectly straight. It hurts that many, especially my fellow evangelicals, don't seem to understand that. I'm a flamin' calvinist, if I can get this why can't the "tolerant" liberals?