marketing of masculinity

thinking about picking up some Mandles so my house can smell like napalm

step 1) constantly rub your knuckles at work and complain about how they hurt, until someone asks
step 2) "..."
step 3) "...punched a wall"
step 4) "...I don't want to talk about it"
step 5) drink camo H20

Way to snake my Camo H2O ad pitch, bro. (punches wall)

(damn...that hydrated guy is so manly...)

Maybe my ctrl+f skills are failing me atm, but I'm frankly flabbergasted that no one itt ever brought up Devour, the frozen meals you just can't wait to bone.

there are very few times in my life where I've understood the "punch a wall" impulse but I've heard a ridiculous number of stories of others doing so

https://i.imgur.com/6oyGkCA.png?1

just overheard on a television i could not see: THE PLAID SHIRT HAS SIGNIFIED STRENGTH FOR OVER 100 YEARS

And the plaid skirt did for 1000 years before that, fuckers!

i don't understand that drywall post at all

I think it's equivalent to

Person:
Mildly inconvenienced white guy: Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!

Is it because some guys punch drywall when they get emotional? I don't get it either.

Yeah, belay my last post, I guess the joke is that white guys will get angry and punch a wall at the mildest inconvenience.

https://i.imgur.com/qVZDQYg.png

https://i.imgur.com/Q65RmTO.png

I once kicked a hole in drywall because we were tearing down a wall anyway and the stud was behind it. I cracked the ball of my foot. It kind of sucked.

lol xp

the joke is that white guys will get angry and punch a wall at the mildest inconvenience.

― jmm, Wednesday, June 5, 2019 3:49 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This really is a thing though, right? I've seen it happen around me. Odd.

I don't understand where it came from? Seeing your dad do it? I feel like I have been in frat houses/boy college apartments that had a lot of those holes in the wall.

My best friend put a hole in a wall at a party in college, but it was when she she put her foot up on the wall to tie her shoelace.

the worst I've ever done in my life was angrily kicking a hollow core door

somehow, even barefoot, I kicked all the way through it

so, a very shameful incident, but kind of impressive nonetheless

we used to party with a dude who would randomly get angry and punch holes in the wall, I remember most of us just praying he'd hit a stud but he never did

in my experience you either have to be predisposed to punching and kicking shit or be pretty horrible at emotional regulation to start hitting the architecture

I went to high school with a dude who punched a brick wall after his girlfriend dumped him. Unsurprisingly, he did not put a hole in it.

https://d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net/wp/wp-content/images/Silicon-Valley-Door-Kick.jpg

Que es mas macho: punching holes in drywall or patching holes in drywall?

xp maybe the hole punchers would be modifying behavior quicker if we weren't in such a ubiquitous drywall culture. or we'd have a lot more hospital visits

my house has some drywall over lathe/plaster. sure as hell not punching anything around there

The most I ever did was kick in the door of my parents' kitchen cabinet as a teenager. I felt bad for destroying their kitchen cabinet after.

I use to throw the remote control at my brothers a lot growing up. I guess we would also try to beat the crap out of each other but we were good and put our karate gloves on first. I have never felt the urge to angrily punch drywall.

I have punched a hole in a door in my house once during an argument. Not proud of it obviously but it's not really different from throwing/breaking dishes (which my wife has done a few times !), imo, or is it ?

The symbolic meaning of the choice of thing to break seems p interesting

I'm not sure that I could punch through drywall if I tried. My thing was always hitting or banging my head, which might be a similar impulse.

ahah, done that too !

be pretty horrible at emotional regulation

and this is pretty otm !

yall houses be made of some shit huh

they're basically sheds

although my brother does live in a flat with cob walls so

in my experience you either have to be predisposed to punching and kicking shit or be pretty horrible at emotional regulation to start hitting the architecture

― mh, Wednesday, June 5, 2019 9:50 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark

completely OTM only i think it's and not or -- i'm not even sure what "predisposed to punching" means but the latter part is true for everyone i have ever personally seen punch a hole in the wall/door, which is >1 person

i have never had any desire to punch a hole in anything although i did accidentally fuck up an entire wall trying to do gymnastics between two plaster walls. my goal was to suspend myself and do a flip but the result was 1 massively fucked up wall and no flip :-/

people who punch things when they can't control their emotions are not the sort of company i keep anymore
i guess.i understand the meme now and i also think its message sucks

Quite agree, though I think the first time I read it I misinterpreted it as being about DIY. Like, dads be remodeling; they regard putting up an interior wall as a heroic act of epic proportions.

Having it be about punching/kicking walls is uglier. It's vastly better than punching/kicking people, I guess, but still I think: don't be That Guy. Breathe. Go for a walk.

I guess there is the whole thing too of biological women generally experiencing more regular and extreme physical pain throughout their lives and men voluntarily seeking it out instead of trying to pull back from it (thus also not knowing how to manage it themselves.)

i think lots of people get the urge to punch things and this is white men once again trying to own like just basic human behaviour

"hahaha cargo shorts! what a white guy thing! and mustaches! don't get me started!"

prob good idea to get a white masculinity marketing thread goin

yall the meme is not pro-punching-drywall. it's heaping scorn on a constructed personality type. if there's something ugly about it it's that it reduces and inaccurately racializes a phenomenon of frantic lower-class rage (no doubt suburban men punch walls too but ime they don't buy, or redeem tabs for, nearly as much monster energy merchandise) into something for media twitter to wrinkle its nose at.

i have been embarrassed the last few weeks tho cuz i clipped my knuckles on a low ceiling doing jumping jacks and people have been asking if i'm okay lol

they don't buy, or redeem tabs for, nearly as much monster energy merchandise

lest this reference seem totally cryptic here is a primer from new thread resource "mel beta"

The symbolic meaning of the choice of thing to break seems p interesting

otm

http://i68.tinypic.com/2ni5pua.gif

and to think that all drywall did was "*exist*"

last time i put a hole in any kind of construction material was about a month ago when the community players were breaking down the contents of an ancient storage shed and i kicked a rotting flat. my foot was fine but i had never seen anything like the waterfall of cockroaches that emerged and kept emerging. it was like temple of doom. some of them were albino.

Another aspect to it is that it's drywall. Big Bad Dude all bent out of shape about something! So angry! Does he punch wood? Brick? No! He lays into a 3/8" thick sheet of fibrous gypsum and shows it who's BOSS.

You may as well pop balloons because you're so full of rage.

I’m picturing a muscular supervillain doing that in a movie.
Juggernaut.. CRUSH.. Balloon

I’m generally a pretty chill white male but I did punch my car door after a series of terrible driving decisions left me stuck in downtown Seattle traffic for what felt like an eternity. My hand did not defeat the door, but I suppose it was self-directed anger anyway so maybe that was the purpose. Anyway it hurt and I felt pretty dumb! Lesson is, never drive.

my uncle punched a wall and broke his hand once

much respect to that wall