marketing of masculinity

read that post three times and it should be depressing but I'm giggling

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVcjBumXUAEmff3.jpg:small

Bet he wears a vest though.

I think I prefer the German version

http://car-use-blog.eu/lat/wp-content/plugins/special-recent-posts/cache/srpthumb-p7660-450x249-no.jpg

real men can't drive?

we die like real men: cursing our pea brained masculine stupidity as our chest cavity fills with the blood from our ruptured aorta.

isn't the german version meant to be an ironical commentary on the shittiness of the car?

of course the american version has to distort it into something 100% earnest and over the top macho

^^ gets it

https://i.imgur.com/JC4yAv1.jpg

I can make my own thank you very much

I have to put this somewhere and although it's not exactly right for the thread I don't know where else to put it.

http://i66.tinypic.com/300r9f5.jpg

https://btbgrooming.co.uk/

after showering, apply this gel to your BALLS

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Uses
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energizing and seductive

note that Shaq is in the commercial for this product

you had me at 'provides all over odor and wetness'

dermatologically testes

dry balls

ha

that's hilarious

lol amazing use of capitalization

That's the best part.

BALLS

after Excelsioring, apply this zing to your LOLZ

omg

xp kudos

*frowns*

https://68.media.tumblr.com/41efed5d93df4f945abaa0763158f4f4/tumblr_p751r8F3oE1w6v1v3o1_1280.jpg

Reminds of a subreddit called 'badwomensanatomy'. Edifying stuff.

I've seen that several times and it never stops making me lol

Reminds me of the time i tried to shave with a women’s razor

What alloy do they use in women's razors again? Femininium? Ovularium? I used those damn things once and totally got passed over for a promotion the next day.

Yeah, I shaved by balls with one once and I swear they got smaller!

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tbf those are some manly fuckin' measuring spoons

Headphones the color of the chair father drank himself to death in, an ax to destroy the yard tree.

what is that little loop thing between the shaving brush and the headphones

Keyring? Artisanal IUD?

I don’t know. I’m also wondering what the hand axe is for

I guess it’s for shaving, because I sure as hell wouldn’t use the little non-wooden, non-leather razor down there in the left corner

I've actually owned a lovely hatchet for most of my life, but it is basically useless. Small pieces of wood are best cut with a bypass lopper (or just bent with hands); larger ones with a handsaw; largest ones need a powered reciprocating saw or chainsaw. There is no size of stick for which a hatchet is the right tool.

Artisanal IUD?

lol!

Isn't the little loop a money clip? Not to say dudes don't bake, but those measuring spoons seem out of place. Unless for drugs or something.

is it me or is that aesthetic already feeling outdated? this thread is eight years old and that HAND HEWN AXE, BRASS RAZOR thing feels stale

it does kind of feel dated but it is still everywhere

it was probably almost a decade ago when my friends had to run to the hardware store for something related to a backyard grilling part we were having and one bought a hatchet to be funny. we were making fun of that aesthetic then, and somehow it's still rolling?

there is, I swear to god, a store locally that has all this man stuff for sale, and they have a guy who artisanly restores old axes with a grinder and sharpener

so what you're saying is that making fun of this aesthetic is outdated and stale

that, too

we might be stuck with it, it's like all my peers who locked their tastes in back in 1999 and everything that was cool then will forever be cool

there are people who are locked into being rustic axe man. gonna be buying new and refurbished rustic axes until they die

they should be sharpening their old rustic axes, ideally with an axe stone while standing in the woods with no shirt

everything i learned about masculinity i learned from God of War on PS4, during the last week

https://i.imgur.com/KlMaKRK.jpg

It's like the 1890s has taken a permanent spot at the nostalgia table for manly shaving goods and hatchets, just like the 1950s won't let go of theme diners.