Rolling Maleness and Masculinity Discussion Thread

offering a male point of view that is worthwhile. i am a man. i am strong.

such will.

I'm curious as to how choad made it from (as Wiktionary claims) Hindi into 90s American stoner slang, the first place I encountered it... there is what I would consider to be a suspicious 100-year gap in the list of attestations.

OED:

Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.

Perhaps compare Hindi codnā (of a man) to have sexual intercourse, cod-ghar brothel, codū (adjective) lascivious, (noun) lascivious man

Earliest citation is Zap Comics no 3, 1968

I don't buy the Hindi connection, really. Was thinking maybe some riff on Spanish's joder but that doesn't make sense either. My money's on an English neologism.

Proto-Estonians are having their good name dragged through the mud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chud

― jmm

but not as badly as the 1987 sami film "pathfinder" did, so there's that

i am a man. i am strong.
In numbers too big to be wrong...

the ad has put Gillette into my mind, but specifically the image of a terrorized boy chased through the Gillette logo by bullies, so I'm not sure if that really has any positive impact on my likelihood to buy Gillette products (caveat being I no longer shave so it's all hypothetical)

Anyway, guess this is the era of advertising we live in now. Looking forward to buying the first peanut butter to acknowledges the armenian genocide.

lol

Denny’s has been making black history month ads for years now

"sure, you can go to waffle house... if you're RACIST"

could totally picture the decline of local diners combined with the ubiquity of Denny's in some areas (Waffle House unfortunately being more regional) resulting in some students asking what these "diners" were that were segregated and had sit-ins resulting in a teacher explaining, "well, they were kind of like a Denny's restaurant"

Denny's would like to strongly assure you they are not the diners of old

man that Nathan For You episode where he makes a "Holocaust remembrance" windbreaker was really ahead of its time wasn't it

Feels like the MAGA teens from the March for Life merit discussion in here

in addition to the other two threads we're discussing them in??

lol r u kidding

plz no more fronts the troops are getting thin

i mean sure

place has come alive its good

frogbs reminded me to watch more Nathan for You last night and I saw the "claw of shame" episode finally

thanks frogbs!

I feel like the cycle of take exhaustion gets shorter and shorter with each one of these events. I can't even formulate a thought on the MAGA teens at this point because they've all been mined already.

There’s actually no real reason to have a thought about any of it but as has been said we’re covering this in at least two threads apart from this one

every time I see "MAGA teens" it makes me think of We Are The Ovaltineys

This sense that we all have some kind of responsibility to act as national jury on a random verbal skirmish at a protest is sort of maddening and anxiety-producing. I'm sure the kids were being racist shitheads because they were wearing MAGA hats so case closed but social media creates this false sense of urgency to weigh evidence, form a nuanced opinion, say something original, etc.

i guess what i really mean is the variety of things on display in the videos made available -- the abrasiveness of the israelites, the aw shucks clueless entitlement of the boys, the model of spirited & stoic de-escalation from phillips (the native man); different modes of maleness on display & used in different ways. but i take the point it's been covered elsewhere.

Man alive otm. We weren't there on the grassy knoll, we don't all need to do frame-by-frame Zapruder shit every. God. Damn. Time.

P much everybody here on record as opposing racist shitheads (I think); do we all need to formulate a specific opinion on every incident?

democracy dies in darkness, etc.

Okay, but meanwhile

https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/01/22/man-cited-his-virginity-reason-he-planned-kill-many-girls-he-could-police-say/?utm_term=.1142a8527668

No report on this guy's hat color

jfc

Maybe i do need to get off the internet

jeeeesus

well now he's definitely gonna get laid amirite

Maybe individualism is the problem. The fact that this guy thinks his loneliness is more valid than other people’s lives suggests a flaw in the calculus

if only these creeps could realize that 'losing your virginity' is boring and nbd

i mean i thought it was great but they should realize it doesn't stop you being the piece of shit loser you know yourself to be

Per an organizer of the indigenous rally too, one of the reasons for the rally was to bring attention to the missing and murdered indigenous women. The woman who was raped and gave birth while in a vegetative state was native american. Jayme Closs was just randomly chosen by the guy that murdered her parents. I mean it's all bad.

https://mcrumps.com/2019/01/23/letter-from-a-french-incel-phd-response-to-the-aeneid-for-incels/

Allow me to introduce myself. I am French, born and raised in Paris, but have fled this city—where a disenfranchised middle-class son cannot have roots unless he sucks the right dicks—to get a try elsewhere. This was a good choice. I managed to pull from a master degree in philosophy to a PhD program. Now I can write my name with the famous three digits put after. However, although this allowed me to develop my intellectual abilities and master many social cues, hard analytical paradigms and rhetorical tropes, this is not the most interesting part.

Shocked that someone who kept going on about how middle-class and white he is, as though either of those things or the combination are of intrinsic value, had difficulty forming connections with people.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/23/americans-views-on-masculinity-differ-by-party-gender-and-race/

http://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FT_19.01.23_Masculinity_Raceeducationparty.png?resize=310,510

http://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FT_19.01.23_Masculinity_Morethaneightinten.png?resize=310,485

also very good stuff here: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/interactives/strong-men-caring-women/

The replies on this tweet are an endless bounty of gifts.

found a new guy pic.twitter.com/i9GpFs8ZFs

— virgin (@wwwdotyoutube) February 8, 2019

I would almost feel bad for dogpiling on this weirdo if it weren't for the extremely upfront racism

I can’t

#sideoffruit

i'd watch an Odd Couple type show w/him and M4rc L01

Alright, fuck it. here goes. The Hardrocknick / Aly Ashley Jash Story.

— DeepThroatBDN (@BdnDeep) February 10, 2019

oh my god

Anything I would say here would be inappropriate for the internet.

how come the mildly entertainingly horrible ones always end up being the total and complete scum of the earth

actually, never mind

this is really good imo:

https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/