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I feel like Tim Heidecker's parody of rogan says more than this article did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Iyg9fznvM
When I see people trying to define positive masculinity, they list traits that are actually good traits I look for in female partners, or male friends. This leads me to believe that the complaints about emasculation are confused ones. I know my mostly absent father complained to my mum about emasculation once. Well, step up and be strong and responsible like most single mothers have to do. Too many guys expect to be respected just for being male. Prove it. Be a good person, male or female.
I think the idea of the male role is toxic bullshit. I was raised by a single mother and she did everything including protecting, providing and teaching good values. Women can do that shit just as well as men, gender doesn't prohibit any of it.
Stupid? Would a stupid man star in Baby Geniuses 2? I'll just leave this here. youtube.com/watch?v=sT3coep3EW0
Maybe. I'm not totally satisfied with that theory but it's a start. Maybe passive consumption of mainstream broadcast media is a factor too.
This idea of boomers typically being emotional immature resonates with me and my life experience, but do you have any ideas why that's the case? I've ruminated on it a lot. I suspect less job competition could be a factor? Lower stakes in life and the ability to be less self censoring maybe? I hear so many of them say fucked up stuff and generally be very unserious. See no incentive to understand the world their kids live in etc. I had to work so fucking hard just to be able to rent my own place and get out of share housing and they didn't have any trouble like that, but act like I just don't work hard enough.
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Yeah that's a fair point. We make generalisations about people from other countries, but they're not all the same. Later in life I lived in Germany while I was pursuing my engineering career, and felt more affinity with the engineers of similar background to myself than I do for rich people in my own country. Growing up in the 21st century in western countries somewhat blinds you to class awareness because the media and education system doesn't discuss it but I feel that is starting to change now as online interaction breaks down those legacy barriers.
I don't what the commenter is referring to specifically, but I encountered it as a young Australian working as a farm labourer. There were a couple of Germans working on the farm who looked down on me for having never travelled to Europe, and not being fluent in a second european language. The difference is that I was working for a living, and didn't have the money for travel. They were just working there as an experience while travelling overseas. As an older person, I now see that as a class issue, but at the time I got the impression that Europeans were snobby. I suspect they just came from wealthier backgrounds.
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