Because, as much as these guys want to be masculine, they aren't willing to do the work to be masculine
Work, you ask? How does one work to be masculine?
Simple, the positive traits of traditional masculinity that are valued--strength, loyalty, honor, discipline, bravery, etc.--the POSITIVE ones--are hard
Similarly, the positive traits of traditional femininity--nurturing, patience, wisdom, diplomacy, management--are hard
That's why they worship special forces psychos instead of being them, that's why they worship MMA wackos instead of being them, it's idolatry
That's why they buy straight razors even if they can't grow a beard, that's why they buy a gun then never shoot it after the first trip to the range, that's why they go into that "art of masculinity" shit that, if you tried to sell in the 1970s, everyone would be calling you "gay" over for how campy it is
Yeah, it's alienation, it's working a dead-end office job, it's having grown up in a suburb hellhole with no trees or streams or rocks to break bones/scrape knees on, but there's also an undeniable element of American laziness and conspicuous consumption
And you better believe that a super individualist society is corrosive to traditional masculinity, because why the fuck would cutthroat capitalists need loyalty or discipline or honor? Take a look at your CEOs and finance capitalists, they're cowards and scumbags, not Greek or Roman folk heroes they'd make statues of
Anyway, I'd so it goes beyond body type, it may vary culture by culture by people but generally feel a distinction between masculine or feminine even if they're drawn to both
Because, as much as these guys want to be masculine, they aren't willing to do the work to be masculine
Work, you ask? How does one work to be masculine?
Simple, the positive traits of traditional masculinity that are valued--strength, loyalty, honor, discipline, bravery, etc.--the POSITIVE ones--are hard
Similarly, the positive traits of traditional femininity--nurturing, patience, wisdom, diplomacy, management--are hard
That's why they worship special forces psychos instead of being them, that's why they worship MMA wackos instead of being them, it's idolatry
That's why they buy straight razors even if they can't grow a beard, that's why they buy a gun then never shoot it after the first trip to the range, that's why they go into that "art of masculinity" shit that, if you tried to sell in the 1970s, everyone would be calling you "gay" over for how campy it is
Yeah, it's alienation, it's working a dead-end office job, it's having grown up in a suburb hellhole with no trees or streams or rocks to break bones/scrape knees on, but there's also an undeniable element of American laziness and conspicuous consumption
And you better believe that a super individualist society is corrosive to traditional masculinity, because why the fuck would cutthroat capitalists need loyalty or discipline or honor? Take a look at your CEOs and finance capitalists, they're cowards and scumbags, not Greek or Roman folk heroes they'd make statues of
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... Is that an RPG or something
Anyway, I'd so it goes beyond body type, it may vary culture by culture by people but generally feel a distinction between masculine or feminine even if they're drawn to both
This, gender is a social construct, but social constructs have to be constructed on something material. Material reality, economic realations etc.
(Biological essentialism is still bullshit, just making that clear.)