[quote]Magarhe wrote:
These guys ARE real men, doing exactly what they want to do and not giving a stuff what you think.
You however can’t cope with the real world. not very manly, I don’t know any women who would find it sexy that you can’t cope with some guy wearing makeup.
It doesn’t matter if you are built like a Greek God and rolling in cash, my guess is that if a woman heard you ranting like this, they’d think you either had no balls, or you were a closet fag.
No offense to gays there intended.
I’ve got news for you - a touch of eyeliner will do wonders for you pulling chics, far more than adding an inch to your biceps.
As far as I am concerned “being a man” means doing what it takes to achieve the end result, NOT whining like a little kid about how the world isn’t the way you want it to be and wishing everything would change to suit you.
Makeup on men is an ANCIENT tradition.
There are tribes in Africa where the men paint their faces several times a day, to attract women. In fanatastic designs that they remove in only a few hours to reapply another fantastic design. OK that is a bit over the top.
But my point is, the only reason men don’t generally wear makeup in todays’ society is because it has just gone that way. This is not an instinctive thing, if anything, it is the opposite. In nature it is often the male that dresses up for the female, not the other way around.
The only reason you oppose it is because you have adopted some stupid tradition instead of thinking for yourself.
The reason you are really angry is because I think deep down in your mind you realise what I am saying is true. You are trapped in your thinking and you see others have stepped out of false stereotypes and are getting results.
I don’t, by the way, wear makeup.
I think David Bowie said it best, something about how, when he made the band wear makeup, they were at first like “that’s all poof” … but then when they realised the effect it had on pulling the chics, they were all “where’s the eyeliner?”.
I repeat, what makes a man a man, is not whining about the world, feeling uncomfortable about what others are doing, and rigidly / blindly following stereotypes.
What makes a man a man and attractive to women, is being able to do what gets results in the real world, or if you choose not to, and do your own thing, be comfortable and confident enough to not be agitated by others around you doing otherwise.
If you doubt me, get some eyeliner, put on a really really subtle amount, go to a bar or something and see what difference it makes.
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Me: Here’s a funny little ditty that ran through my mind this morning. I thought some people might like a chuckle.
Magarhe: Not me. I don’t like to laugh. What’s more, I think you are a whiner. Henceforth, I will proceed to use more words than your original post used to whine about you being a whiner. And I refuse to inject one iota of comedy into my post.
Me: Oh. Wow. Crazy, man. You whining about me whining is creating a hypocritical paradox, thus merging space and time in all areas. The only way to stop this is to parody your complete lack of a sense of humor as well as your hypocrisy, thus staving off this horrid “whiner’s paradox” that you have created.
Magarhe: Shut up! Your not a man because you whine! Shit! That means I’m not a man either! Dammit!
Me: I see this paradox is getting to you already.
Magarhe: Ancient men wore make-up! So do Africans!
Me: Hey. Great for them. That’s their culture, and I think it is a beautiful, wonderful thing. Wearing make-up for them is a part of their sense of identity and community. However, wearing make-up for the modern American male is evidence of our problems with identity and community- mainly that we don’t know who we are as people, let alone as men.
One of the reasons, in my opinion, is our lack of a defined Rite of Passage. Many of these people who choose to wear make-up are also people who live with their parents into their thirties. And it’s not individuality- it’s succumbing to a trend that tells men we should be more like women.
Because being manly is dangerous in this society, so we need to be pacified and feminized. Wear some make-up, put on some capri pants, and sit around “exploring your feelings” instead of acting on them.
Men are dangerous. We’re unpredictable. We’re proactive. We’re agressive. We work well with one another, but also tend to think for ourselves. In short- we elicit change and get shit done. That scares the hell out of people. The more that they can get us to behave like women, the more little boys that they can put on ritalin, and the more that we are told that all things “male” are bad for society, the less that they have to worry about.
To quote Nietzsche- “Great men, like great ages, are explosives in which a tremendous force is built.”
And then to quote feminist Gloria Steinem- “Men are like explosives: they are dangerous and beyond control, and need to be locked up for the good of society.”
Interesting, huh?
Magarhe: I… I… YOU’RE A WHINER!!!
Me: …sighs…
