itt blogs instruct you how to be a man

quest for fire...roasted tomatoes

do they get meat brands as souvenirs?

i have no problem with people doing this as long as caity weaver gets to keep writing articles about them.

people who are so concerned about embodying a gender are funny, then sad. they don't make me angry. i'm like, oh, that's the cul-de-sac at the end of that long ridiculous road, glad i don't have to go there.

Matt P on point.

it is also funny and sad, yeah, it does make me angry because there are people who go around exploiting gender anxiety for profit, and i just think it's generally awful but also psychologically damaging and reinforces inequalities

there are people who go around exploiting gender anxiety for profit

Drop 'gender' and there's most of life explained, frankly.

to rend these dudes scrota from their bodies using nothing but a rusty hand trowel

Sounds very manly

yeah, I forgive, and kind of enjoy the campiness of intentional normative gender identification up to a point, as long as it's not misogynistic or homophobic

camping is at least part play-acting anyway

but elmo is otm re "screaming crazy-making nonsense". I have gone camping and prepared fine foods, and would get a kick out of a motorcycle ride on the way, but identifying this as "essential manliness" is really hilarious. Most of my camping experience has been with women and men, and if sleeping on the ground, cooking over a fire and taking a shit in primitive conditions is masculine, then bros should move to the 3rd world and become women

anyway:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/44c8efddb292809c4012db78e1f7c611/tumblr_mghy47xmVK1qj29d6o1_500.jpg

btw that works, right up until it doesn't

http://25.media.tumblr.com/40a7c100ce7e3cbdb7821106fd69a890/tumblr_mhiw3uDmWS1qg9kfqo1_500.png

"excuse me miss, has anyone ever told you you look like Bea Arthur"

is "make her come" on that list anywhere?

it's not foolproof but it helps

that is difficult to do as a meet-cute

not impossible mind you, but difficult

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljyl466UB51qj29d6o1_500.jpg

seems a tad excessive

I'm a man because that is the box I check on things and if people ask me I say I am. No signifiers or symbols here, thanks.

it is also funny and sad, yeah, it does make me angry because there are people who go around exploiting gender anxiety for profit, and i just think it's generally awful but also psychologically damaging and reinforces inequalities

― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, February 1, 2013 10:40 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah :(

http://25.media.tumblr.com/40a7c100ce7e3cbdb7821106fd69a890/tumblr_mhiw3uDmWS1qg9kfqo1_500.png

Or tell her she's a stud.

Tell her you'd hit it.

Fuck, the narration on the camping video sounds like the worst This American Life ever.

haha i am getting into a twitter spat about this

Oh man. What are the counterarguments?

it's more of a difference on why it's awful

on a different twitter account than your elmo one?

https://twitter.com/acontinuouslean/status/297432033624481792

lmao

haha how did it take so long for him to get to the "they are just douchebags" conclusion am a limited medium like Twitter

I like that the guy prodding him keeps going on about masculinity when it wasn't mentioned before he brought it up

first sign of trouble was the name "a continuous lean"

is there a single thing using the "a <adjective> <noun>" structure that's not douchey

mh, I believe the prodder is elmo

that camping expedition looks suspiciously like a matchmaking service for aspiring bros to meet other aspiring bros and hopefully join together in newfound brohood.

brb, registering the twitter handle apoppedmolly

my masculinity spirit guide is a queer trans guy I knew in college briefly; I once told him this on twitter and one of the tips he gave me was "embrace flaccidity" which just seemed so perfect to me.

<3 back elmo btw

hahahaha kudos, elmo

elmo why you gotta make everything about masculinity

(kudos)

"please go thrift for a clue" hoooooooooooooo boy

i am indeed the prodder

and yeah i do get fixated on masculinity, it's true, eg this thread

Elmo zing him back using "Americana keychains"

http://www.acontinuouslean.com/2010/01/07/the-acl-hotel-motel/

I'm envisioning the group of men on this wilderness thing and the readers of "a continuous lean" on a venn diagram right now

and "bizarre attitudes about masculinity" is kind of a third bubble

haha awesome xp

ALL Antiquated Masculinity Models, $1

^^^^TREAUSRE TROVE

feel like some people just want some kind of larger justification to be pompous bullies. hey look! manliness can help w/ that too!

when i sent the gawker link to my ex-evangelical friend, he immediately replied with "it's christian."

and i really wouldnt be surprised if it was, kony-style

i really did enjoy that his initial response was to call me out on my taste level, because THAT'S not elitist or anything

when i sent the gawker link to my ex-evangelical friend, he immediately replied with "it's christian."

*eyes widen in terror*

i think your boy might be on to something