the duluth trading company breaks my spirit
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
file this under my favorite thing I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/qlkcr2C1g8— a (@annkatsha) May 9, 2018
― j., Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pNGQPjk.jpg
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 12 May 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
An intereeting thing i noticed in Japan is how while yes, there wre beauty products marketed to men, its not as easy to distinguish the two as it is hereLike stateside, there's the weird insertion of like fucking bears or tigers or guns or camo pic.twitter.com/LNBOhU6e9I— k 👍Ⓕ wagata (@TeethBeetles) May 28, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 28 May 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
The label of my Ultra-Moist Baby-Soft Exfoliation Gel (specially formulated for sensitive skin) features a bear wearing camo pointing a gun at a tiger.
― and she could see an earmuff factory (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 28 May 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
the american version of the same product
https://i.imgur.com/kUCSavO.jpg
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Monday, 28 May 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
ya a lot of japanese men take their beauty routine extremely serious, just like women do
beauty standards in east asia for east asian men in general are basically to look as feminine as possible without actually wearing a dress and having shoulder-length hair (except for the 80s/visual kei), from a western standpoint
look at the models to get a perfect idea
at least in japan, the way they show their masculinity/gender is by speaking a particular way and using specific words
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 28 May 2018 19:08 (six years ago) link
I'll never forget a story my junior high Latin teacher told us about being stationed in Japan in the 1950s - the soldiers all learned Japanese from the women they hung out with, so their pronounciation and vocal mannerisms were seen as hilariously feminine by the local dudes.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 28 May 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
ExactlyThe same thing happens now when a western guy ends up learning Japanese from his wife/girlfriendFunnily enough, the Japanese books teach is formal Japanese, which is more like how women speakSo all the western men end up sounding feminine, which a lot of women over there think is cute and funnyAnd when you tell western guys that their initial reaction is to panic lol
― F# A# (∞), Monday, 28 May 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
Someone should hire Sonny Chiba to do a series of Japanese language tapes. Solve this problem at a stroke.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 28 May 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
beauty standards in east asia for east asian men in general are basically to look as feminine as possible
if everyone's into skin care, then wouldn't it not be feminine but just neutral?
the japanese perspective has to be: in the US, it's weird, women take care of their skin and men look like they're dried out walking dandruff, right?
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Monday, 28 May 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
Men in the US generally do have a walking dandruff vibe going on. It's patriotic to just let yourself go. Or maybe they think ranch dressing moisturizes from the inside.
― Yerac, Monday, 28 May 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
*drops cup of ranch I'm slurping*
wait it doesn't?!
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Monday, 28 May 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
going to go out on a limb and say that black men are better about it, lest they get mocked for being ashy
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Monday, 28 May 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
XPs Can you give any kind of equivalent examples of the masculine/feminine vocabulary/way of talking? Or is it just like 'dude what up' vs 'oh my god!! how have you beeeen I can't believe it!!!'
nb I don't believe that most people actually fall into these stereotypes
― kinder, Monday, 28 May 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
xpost, yeah I am mostly talking about white men in the US, mostly outside of the major cities.
― Yerac, Monday, 28 May 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
Although my brothers are half asian and they are flaky, cargo shorts wearing mofos.
― Yerac, Monday, 28 May 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
...who put ranch dressing on everything.
― Yerac, Monday, 28 May 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
my dudes
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Monday, 28 May 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
I just had to google to see if they made a skin product with ranch dressing formula yet. I could only find a youtube "comedy" bit on using it as a moisturizer and teeth whitener.
― Yerac, Monday, 28 May 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
― kinder, Monday, May 28, 2018 2:44 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hm, of course there is the "what's up" and "dude"
i was specifically referring to phrases that only men say, personal pronouns the speaker uses depending on their gender, and different verb conjugations for male and female speaker -- but there are also "neutral" ways to say things, but that sometimes falls under the "formal" category
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link
male and female speakers*
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
this also reminds me that colombian men don't use the informal you when talking to other men, because if they do, it sounds like they are gay or in some intimate relationship
so they only use the formal you
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
“My dad has an infant dick” pic.twitter.com/2fSdK3gFCb— jasen comstock (@JasenComstock) May 30, 2018
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Thursday, 31 May 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
The miami beach peninsula
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 31 May 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link
jesus
― you bet, nancy (map), Thursday, 31 May 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link
“I learned it by watching you, dad!” *shits self explosively*
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:16 (six years ago) link
tbf my son did get his voluminous shitting skills from me
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
This is a mess of a thread
― Ross, Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:22 (six years ago) link
As if a "marketing of masculinity" thread could be anything else.
― nickn, Thursday, 31 May 2018 06:59 (six years ago) link
This one amused me. I guess a weightlifting apparel site is low-hanging fruit for this kind of marketing, though.
― beard papa, Friday, 15 June 2018 04:32 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9DKA9Vt.png
wait a second, should i have been attributing my quotes to myself every time i say them?
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 15 June 2018 05:27 (six years ago) link
- Bob Marley
― too gashly (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 15 June 2018 07:15 (six years ago) link
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52703af3e4b04f2720625215/577fd16cff7c50451be6db1e/590384b92994caa5907787d9/1516136630692/FullSizeRender.jpg-3.jpeg?format=2500w
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52703af3e4b04f2720625215/577fd16cff7c50451be6db1e/5aba938d575d1f96b4b174c2/1524078197695/yellow-mug.jpeg?format=2500w
― how's life, Friday, 15 June 2018 10:28 (six years ago) link
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― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
Oh great, and now my fingertips hurt on top of everything else arrrgfff VfcknZjjzmlhjYzvHZmlJyzZmkKi
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Friday, 15 June 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
http://imgur.com/dfBPvTHl.png
Amazon keeps recommending this to me when I browse e.g. male vitamin supplements and I just might start wearing one around town.
― mick signals, Friday, 15 June 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
That's kinda cool, actually; you could rub it up against the laptops of people you don't like.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 15 June 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
http://imgur.com/iaLN1Qzl.png
― mick signals, Sunday, 24 June 2018 03:40 (six years ago) link
^ wringing a simulacrum of humor from the pretense that everything is exactly as important as everything else. but the set-up and timing are incompetent.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 24 June 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
different, but the same
https://scontent-atl3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/61623f43c077b8c3d34532ee69976296/5BBD6A50/t51.2885-15/e35/33727805_448740428885221_2895419792775184384_n.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 25 June 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
"for the fascist in you"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 June 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
makiagesmh
― kinder, Monday, 25 June 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
Both cynical in the same way that all marketing is but I think the pressures that lead to the latter are infinitely more pronounced and entrenched than the former. Feels wrong to have them in the same conversation
― tsrobodo, Monday, 25 June 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
Manly Health and Training, With Off-Hand Hints Toward Their Conditions
https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mosemed.jpg
― remy bean, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link
Sorry if this has been posted upthread but I was only made aware of it thru a targeted Instagram ad:
https://nypost.com/2017/06/03/this-intensive-boot-camp-is-designed-to-revive-a-mans-primal-nature/
Drills included being thrown off a boat into the Pacific Ocean while blindfolded, dunked into a tank of ice water, and visiting a cemetery where the men are told they will die in 20 minutes and must first write goodbye letters to their loved ones.“We teach them how to be a man,” said Warrior Week founder Garrett J. White, a 40-year-old blond with tattooed biceps who looks like a video-game soldier.“Women are leading [both] across the board in business and at home . . . and living more powerfully than men today. And that’s causing complete chaos for men.”
“We teach them how to be a man,” said Warrior Week founder Garrett J. White, a 40-year-old blond with tattooed biceps who looks like a video-game soldier.
“Women are leading [both] across the board in business and at home . . . and living more powerfully than men today. And that’s causing complete chaos for men.”
― omar little, Monday, 30 July 2018 11:48 (six years ago) link
Literally the preceding post
― antisocal (rip van wanko), Monday, 30 July 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link
What kind of pussy writes letters in a cemetery.
― pplains, Monday, 30 July 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
are they trying to turn them into goths? cuz this is how u get goths
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 30 July 2018 14:08 (six years ago) link