Rolling Maleness and Masculinity Discussion Thread

Lol

idgi, which I suppose ties into what I was saying upthread.

eephus! was describing a tactic that would work with American football and man alive jokingly posted that he tried it verbatim during a baseball game

Ah, I see. Thanks.

lol, second time in two days DJP has to explain my posts to someone

I got you, bro *fist bump*

tactic masculinity

I thought the joke was a reference to the bizarre interference call in the Astros/Nats baseball game last night that few fans really understood.

I usually try to casually mention my complete ignorance re: sports whenever I'm meeting another man for the first time, occasionally issuing the consolation that if he wants to rank the denizens of Star's Hollow we'll get on like gangbusters.

just talk about records until you've either cleared the room or become the life of the party

keep a laminated card in your wallet that explains the infield fly rule

I slide the phrase "well, that's not cricket!" into conversation so people know I know my sports

Cricket fans would know you're full of shit - the phrase is "it's just not cricket".

that was a trap, we wanted to flush out the cricket enthusiasts and ban them

masculinity wins again

masculinity wins so much that masculinity is getting tired of winning

the no, cricket is literally the only sport I know due to coworker pressure and when someone asks me about another sport I can only shrug because... not cricket

an errant “the” was prefaced, whoops

i want to get more into sports.

i've worked in the "art world" for the past two years and have learned a lot of information about contemporary art. i wish i could swap this information out for knowledge about the nba.

ILH is always looking for new recruits!

there are incredible artists doing amazing things right now -- don't get me wrong -- but also a lot of hype. and the idea of art as the ultimate luxury commodity has really worn me down--just the whole lifestyle around it. sports is more honest.

the season just started so this is a good time. i see the knicks are losing to the orlando magic.

is it OK to become a nets fan? i'm a brooklynite but still--seems ignoble to jump ship.

treesh should def start posting on the good board

as far as jumping ship, you gotta go where your heart leads ya, even if it is to the lol knicks

the knicks have no future to speak of outside of one rather polarizing prospect. the nets now employ two weird malcontents as their best players, one of whom is out for the season. there's no right answer here, my friend.

yeah the long-term prob with the knicks is they are going to be bad for the rest of our lives more or less

just tuned into the nets. playing against the hated pacers.

2019-20 NBA Regular Degular Season thread join us here bud!

ilhoops is the best board and also a place for positive exemplars of masculinity (ie me)

Easiest path to being sports-conversant - only pay attention to the playoffs. Paying attention to December basketball is work, if you wait til May things are more exciting.

I got into soccer 5 years ago and it made my life more fun

But lord is it harder to fake in convo

the idea of art as the ultimate luxury commodity

cheap art is the best. i’ve discussed the “ultimate luxury commodity” bit with friends and it usually means one of:
- artwashing
- status symbol
- money laundering

ding. ding. ding.

Soccer is cool because (having never played it or watched on TV until this decade) I can't tell good from bad so MLS is just as interesting/dramatic as a Champions League match.

the "art world"--or art market more like, the gallery world--is the weirdest and most disingenuous thing. sometimes there is good worked mixed up in it, some is nonsense, but the way it is all discussed is strange. especially because so much of the work, and the language around the work, is heavily political and almost always left wing, but the people who collect the stuff are weapons manufacturers and investors in private prisons and whatever. i just get vertigo in this world. i hope my employer does not know my ilx name.

idk what this has to do with masculinity

Treeser Soze

more like, tangent treesh.

<3

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=1078909029

get over here

no, cricket is literally the only sport I know due to coworker pressure and when someone asks me about another sport I can only shrug because... not cricket

Ha, sorry champ (link nsfw)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/the-miseducation-of-the-american-boy/603046/

Nah

i think it's good - i've always liked orenstein

Anything that promises it will speak comprehensively about "the American boy" tells me it is cast in a journalistic mode that will invariably be unequal to the intellectual task its title pretends to address. I know authors rarely get to choose the titles that appear over their work, but it's just hard for me to believe in the quality of a magazine essay, when it is so evidently under the editorial control of imbeciles.

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it's a good essay/report

Hey, at least it's not by Caitlin Flanagan or Christina Hoff Sommers.

i read it

i don't know peggy orenstein or caitlin flanagan or christina hoff sommers though