marketing of masculinity

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

wait white dudes punch walls more than dudes of color

this sounds...wildly speculative

I once stayed in a short term rental apartment with a fisthole in the wall above the bed. Landlord's deep apologies, the previous tenant, Gene, left in a rage but had promised to return and patch it up. Imagine my surprise when Gene actually showed up a few days later toting spackle and was a woman.

no really imagine it

PS spackle is saggily inadequate for fistholes. What is the frequent punchers' recommended wall repair method, anyway?

you gotta buy that mesh or the spackle just crumbles

i don't understand that drywall post at all

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera),

i'm not sure either, but i originally took it to refer to that kind of deep husky cowboy voice that does the voiceovers for commercials aimed at household chores. there's a certain kind of household appliance commercial style that elevates the task into a kind of manly patriotic duty.

making this up, but it's like "every weekend. you mow the lawn. because you're precise. *string accompaniment begins fading in* and it doesn't matter how long it takes. because it's not about you. it's about doing things right. *other orchestra instruments start joining in* it's about doing things the right _way_. because you care *sweeping timpani crescendo, choral group begins singing aaron copland's arrangement of SImple Gifts* because you're always going to be there. every weekend. until the job is done. john deere. because nothing runs like a deer...e"

so when i saw mildly inconvenienced white guy overreacting to drywall that way, i thought of it as another mundane household task that would be fashioned into a feat of faithful courage by some dumb commercial. not sure that makes sense now, though.

I know it's always annoying when someone does this, but: is this an American thing?

I do <3 you, karl

Does Europe have drywall?

Is Europe even dry?

I'm sure dudes of color have hit plenty of walls, but it's mostly seen as a white guy thing since we've got (1.) misplaced and usually wrongful aggression, (2.) a certain privilege possessed that it takes to tear up your own property and (3.) it's not a punching bag or a pane of glass, but drywall, I think it's a white guy thing, sorry you all couldn't understand.

Ftr, I've never punched any wall. Saw my dad punch through some drywall once. It was simultaneously the silliest and scariest thing I'd ever witnessed up to that point.

I've very carefully cut into drywall with a pad saw for switches/socket outlets etc many times in the past. Punching drywall isn't the way to do it.

when I was a teen, I punched a bunch of holes in my room. when my parents decided to sell the home, they made me patch all of the holes and paint the room. pain in the ass. I wish I could say I never did it again, but years later while learning how to use contact lenses, I got angry and put the heel of my foot through a wall. I think I lost a few hundred dollars off my security deposit from that, so that was the last time. someone above otm about shoddily made modern homes/apartments.

My house was built in 1939; walls are plaster and lath and brick, I guess? Some later wood paneling (probably laminate. If I wanted to punch drywall I'd have to go buy some drywall first. Which seems pretty involved. No thanks.

in baseball it’s always very angry pitchers who punch walls and often they break their hand

Does Europe have drywall?

We call it plasterboard in the UK, afaik. Here's Keith showing us how to style it out:

https://i.redd.it/eu7b8mf11ni11.jpg

when i was in the UK electrical installations biz they were called stud walls. I hated them tbh because you often would end up wearing out 3 spade bits drilling holes into wooden joists for the cables to go through and then you'd have plate every bit of wood the cable passes through and the less said about them horrible fast-fix boxes the better. And some people seemed to think this was much easier than chasing out plaster/brick and you'd be expected to finish it twice as fast.

in baseball it’s always very angry pitchers who punch walls and often they break their hand

I remember this happening in the 2004 NLCS, Julian Tavarez gave up a home run to Carlos Beltran and then went to the dugout and tried to beat up a telephone, breaking his hand in the process.

kinder <3

If I wanted to punch drywall I'd have to go buy some drywall first

Bringing this back around to the thread topic, who wants to invest in my theme pub for men that has big sports on TVs and punchable walls replaced daily?

Kevin Brown was a very good example, I remember this happening during his ill-fated 2004 season w/the Yankees:

In 2004, he posted a 10–6 record with a 4.09 ERA, but experienced health problems during the season. Toward the end of the season, he punched a wall in frustration,[7] injuring his hand.

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You might want to wait until the ax-throwing bar craze dies down.

it's sort of amazing how often this happens in baseball, and it's always pitchers

every once in a while there'll be a guy who at least remembered to use his non-pitching hand

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjbavx/dumb-pitchers-punching-shit-and-getting-injured-a-selected-history

doesn't even mention Alex Reyes or Drew Pomeranz

There is a wealth of google search returns for punching a hole in drywall. sigh.

https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/53b2d1cba923ddc669000060/master/w_768,c_limit/415744_pa_leftovers_poster_v5-1.jpg

dudes get equally angry at the burgers being overdone, a bad pitching performance, and the rapture

the silver lining is the low-key color commentary as they show some player demolishing the dugout phone with a bat... "don't think that phone's gonna work anymore" "they're giving him some space"

https://i.imgur.com/dB7Jt2Y.jpg

just want to point out that leftovers poster shows a white man punching a plaster wall, not drywall. ok?

FUUUCK. *punches drywall* Somebody beat me to my great idea.

"Break Bar New York City is the cool bar in NYC where you can break stuff, smash stuff, and join our wrecking club!"

FAP?

Fancy A Punch?

got an idea for a monthly subscription service of sustainably sourced breakable shit.

the thrift stores of the usa salute you with their wide array of unwanted breakables

The pics at that bar make me itchy.

Meanwhile I saw an ad for ROSES FOR MEN. They aren't like some wimpy-ass tea roses favored by girls and betas. I mean these suckers are the size of baseballs.

Www.roseclubformen.com

Thought it was an SNL parody ad, apparently it is not.

Broses.com was taken?

once worked with this very damaged + "eccentric" steroid pumping badly aging ex-footie hooligan type who stone-faced reckoned he could chop a breeze block in half with his hand. Never mind punching a fucking bit of egg-box!

tried to get him to do a demonstration once, but the disorderly feng shui and noise of site was disrupting his flow!

Lol @ mick s.

Disappointed that roseclubformen.com doesn't actually market the flowers for men.

https://i.imgur.com/0SBeZ7T.png

got an order in from newegg recently and there's an ad for another one of those mail-order razorblade outfits. in fairness i do shave quite a bit more than men typically do but how many fucking mail-order razorblade outfits does one need, and why are they still writing their marketing material as if they're all competing exclusively with gillette?

how....often do you shave

how....often do men shave

many of yr statements intrigue me

I shave once a month, so this box sounds perfect.

some of their business comes from heavy cocaine users

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/7/24/20696487/everyday-carry-reddit-knife-wallet-gun

heh heh

BRB, gotta go drop 'carry' (n.) in the 'words that annoy the shit out of you' thread

Though not everyone in the community is interested in firearms — Diale in particular was turned off at first by all the talk of carrying guns before realizing that the community was more about general-purpose tools — some members take it to extremes. For example, Frank says he often sees some gun enthusiasts in EDC spaces repeat the refrain “one is none,” which reflects their belief that carrying at least two firearms at once is the only way to ensure their personal safety.

walking around with guns and pouches strapped all over you like an imperial-phase rob liefeld drawing is the only way to be safe

“At the end of the day, we just really like having stuff, you know?” he says, laughing. “And if it looks good and it’s functional, that’s all the better.”

this exact attitude is why the world is ending fyi

At the end of the day, I just really like having a cart. And if a horse comes along to actually pull it somewhere, that's all the better.

I have all kinds of “useful*” crap in my bag and I like having it there but the EDC “community” is totally execrable

*my wife got new sneakers while we were on vacation but she didn’t like the laces. She asked if I had some laces and of course I did, in the pocket with the lint brush, the flashlight, the eyeglass repair kit and the tailor’s tape