Rant: Male Body Image and Status in Modern Society

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

Basically, quit being a pussy.[/quote]
x2

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

Basically, quit being a pussy.[/quote]
x2[/quote]

I’m trying to remember the last time a thread like this happened. I remember one so similar like a couple months ago.

-Guy starts thread with stupid-sounding, hypocritical post.
-Guy gets epicly flamed.
-Guy fights it not realizing he’s just digging a deeper hole for himself (or realizing it and doing it on purpose cuz he’s a troll and wants attention to pass the time).
-Entertainment?

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
You don’t like your muscles defining first appearances [/quote]

Wait, you seriously think this is about ME?

[quote]want2getlean wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
You don’t like your muscles defining first appearances [/quote]

Wait, you seriously think this is about ME?[/quote]

This was hilarious.

I’m gonna go grab some snacks.

[quote]want2getlean wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
You don’t like your muscles defining first appearances [/quote]

Wait, you seriously think this is about ME?[/quote]
Yep. And more specifically how your insecurities, thrown in to the “male culture surrounding you” made you a big, inadequate feeling, wet vagina who has to throw mud and convince himself others are on a lower plane of existence so that you can live with your “dysmorphia”.

Like a cock blocker whose game is too weak and face too ugly to compete, so instead he tries to lower his competition in his targets eyes to have a chance.

It’s fucking weird man. Being a pussy literally makes you crazy. Find your balls.

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

[quote]want2getlean wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
You don’t like your muscles defining first appearances [/quote]

Wait, you seriously think this is about ME?[/quote]
Yep. And more specifically how your insecurities, thrown in to the “male culture surrounding you” made you a big, inadequate feeling, wet vagina who has to throw mud and convince himself others are on a lower plane of existence so that you can live with your “dysmorphia”.

Like a cock blocker whose game is too weak and face too ugly to compete, so instead he tries to lower his competition in his targets eyes to have a chance.

It’s fucking weird man. Being a pussy literally makes you crazy. Find your balls.[/quote]

…and the truth is, we are just trying to help.

*Cue After School Special theme music with piano.

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

Yep.[/quote]

lol

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
convince himself others are on a lower plane of existence
[/quote]

But… the whole point was about other men not being on a lower plane but viewing themselves as such…

Keep on bubbin’, bubba.

[quote]Professor X wrote:
This was hilarious.
[/quote]

You know what’s ACTUALLY hilarious?

How unlike the balding redneck dude who’s playing an idiot to get giggles from his clique, you actually keep coming back and fake some uncomfortable aloof posturing simply because I bruised your tiny and weak aspergers body dysmorphia much-slower-than-he-thinks-he-is manchild of an ego, to the point people are PMing me laughing about making you mad (which was never actually my intention since I think you’re genuinely the biggest nutcase on these boards)

I’m all out of snacks. All I have is protein.

[quote]want2getlean wrote:

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:

Yep.[/quote]

lol

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
convince himself others are on a lower plane of existence
[/quote]

But… the whole point was about other men not being on a lower plane but viewing themselves as such…

Keep on bubbin’, bubba.
[/quote]
I guess that’s what you intended to say, but didn’t. Try again. Your point is lost in your projected, self loathing angst.

[quote]Professor X wrote:
I’m all out of snacks. All I have is protein.[/quote]
Well aren’t you just in a masculine world of inferiority then.

[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
I guess that’s what you intended to say, but didn’t. Try again. [/quote]

‘I WIN YOU LOSE’

Case in point.

[quote]Professor X wrote:
I’m all out of snacks. All I have is protein.[/quote]

Feeling comfortable about your aloof posturing yet, or do you still want to assure us with another shitpost or two?

[quote]want2getlean wrote:

‘I WIN YOU LOSE’

Case in point.[/quote]
See? There you go again.

[quote]want2getlean wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
I’m all out of snacks. All I have is protein.[/quote]

Feeling comfortable about your aloof posturing yet, or do you still want to assure us with another shitpost or two?[/quote]
And again.


Ooh! A single snowflake falling in March. You don’t see that every day.

Guys we’d better give up…it’s like the OP has known us all our lives.

He got me spot on!

But seriously…you can tell he’s a former (or current) poster…as he pretended to guess that Professor X was skinny and had glasses…something X has never been shy about and has provided that pic on more than one occasion.

[quote]want2getlean wrote:
Anyway, during this time I’ve grown out of my teenaged body dysmorphic size and status, insecurity driven, frenzy and that put not only my past into perspective, but male culture surrounding me.[/quote]

It’s called social constructivism. But in reality you’ll see that society isn’t run by alpha males. The most powerful and successful people, mostly, don’t have big muscles. This fixation is of YOUR making, yet you act as though you are simply a helpless victim of your surroundings. This is actually not true. You shouldn’t just write yourself off like that. It is social constructivism at its extreme. Someone already suggested that you’re ‘projecting’ yourself onto the world. It’s true. Your concept that all men seek to be abnormally muscular, lean athletic individuals has no evidence. Most men don’t care to compete with you.

[quote]want2getlean wrote: I’ve had so much ridiculous shit from men, like random guys in nightclubs pretending they’re tight with me, to drunken idiots wanting to start a fight because I was ‘showing off my arm’ (I was standing still talking to people).
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firstly, don’t go to nightclubs where people behave like they’re on Jersey fucking shore! Go to a classy establishment. Secondly, flexing your arms in public (in anything outside the context of a sarcastic joke) is NOT COOL. It is the modern equivalent of pissing and claiming your territory (i.e. whether you like it or not you are intimidating other men around you).

What you actually think about all this is irrelevant. These are just general observations. It’s the fact that you are so oblivious to everything which has prompted such a hostile response here.

[quote]yarni wrote:

It’s called social constructivism. But in reality you’ll see that society isn’t run by alpha males. The most powerful and successful people, mostly, don’t have big muscles.
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I liked this statement, but I wanted to toss in my own side-view – the world, by and large, is run by Alphas (male mostly, some female). However, the mistake is thinking that all alphas are the most muscular/largest members of society. People of average physique and average strength have been getting the physically powerful to do the heavy lifting for pretty much all of recorded history.

Real alphas are the ones that don’t get intimidated by immediate, outward appearances. High-ranked Betas are the men who focus on physique alone, without developing their mental game. They might improve their lives through physique alone, and dominate >many<, but will never quite reach the pinnacles of society.

Examples of physically unimpressive but alpha males – Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Pierre Woodman (ok that last one might be debatable but I have my reasons)

Arnold Schwarzenegger would be an example of someone who was an alpha and also had the physique to match.

Lou Ferrigno, as much as he seems like an extremely cool and capable guy, would be an example of a guy with an Alpha physique who doesn’t really seem to have the Alpha mentality, possibly because he was dominated a lot by his powerful-personality father, and on top of that had the hearing and speech impediment that messed with his confidence when he was growing up.

My apologies for the thread intrusion…