marketing of masculinity

*looks at you uncomfortably*

get that vulnerability away from my manliness!! it reeks of weakness!!!

put me in a room with 99% coronavirus molecules.

i will defeat them all

IDG the "masks make me look weak" take, everyone I've seen in a mask looks tough as hell

this is not a hot take but the branding of a lot of veteran-owned businesses is real weird.

I normally bare my teeth in a gruesome death-dealing grin when I need to look tough, but the mask just covers it up and people think I'm smiling sheepishly. To make up for it I have to kick them in the nuts and give a Tarzan yodel.

this is not a hot take but the branding of a lot of veteran-owned businesses is real weird.

Did we ever talk about Dog Tag Brewing?
https://i.imgur.com/Qsp2nNe.jpg

Which printed the name of a dead soldier on every "dead soldier"?
https://i.imgur.com/U7y8QPx.jpg

Support the troops buurrrrrp

All respect to my American friends but the worship of the military is repulsive to me. It's so clearly engineered to create a stream of willing volunteers. Watching a group of young Marines on leave, strutting around the terminal and snapping orders at desk staff in Honolulu airport, was a gross experience.

can’t imagine any Americans here feeling remotely disrespected by that
then again esby just popped in to shit all over bob dylan and randy Newman both so maybe?

nope no respect for military OR wack boomer penis gods here :sunglasses: :irreverant:

Ironically, there was a very strong streak of disdain for the military in the USA up to WWII. This disdain for 'the brass hats' was still endemic among enlisted men during WWII, even as the US civilian population was drifting toward a much stronger rejection of young men who were neither in the military nor doing vital war work.

The VFW was a stronghold of military worship in the Cold War, and Cold War fears drove the public toward a greater acceptance of the military as 'guardians', but the disdain of the conscript for the US military was still quite pronounced right up to the end of the Vietnam War.

Ever since conscription ended and the all-volunteer military replaced it, the jingos have steadily succeeded in making "the troops" sacrosanct. Even a lot of "the troops" now embrace this mythmaking (though not all of them by any means). Compared to most of US history, the current prestige attached to the military is an anomaly, but I don't see it ending any time soon.

You mean you want the troops to die? Probably at the hands of terrorists? It’s either that or total domination, choose your side

By the way, ILM, it is very disrespectful to have all these best ever polls, and the National Anthem isn’t even nominated.

yeah you've got a good point KM!
I remember the shock at hearing airport announcements inviting service personnel to board the aircraft first - the Australian govt tried it here and the national howl of disgust shut it down pretty quick.

LAX - hearing how free showers are available to the military in the Bob Hope Lounge or whatever the hell I was hearing in my jetlagged fever dreams.

https://www.dudeproducts.com/products/dude-wiper-1000

o_O

lock thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qykoo8_1Wz4

i can't listen to the audio right now, but i'm going to watch the video on mute and see if i can learn something

i like how the dude wiper 1000 is designed for very masculine asshole, but why does it not make me more muscular and sexy to women as well?

so it's a bidet with controls that look like a car stereo, costs $60 more than an otherwise identical bidet from Luxe

That's what's known as the "insecurity tax".

how about a bidet that can measure how hard and fast i piss? i need constantly updating stats on my PSI

maybe an online leaderboard with my toughest guy friends too, so we can all know how hard we all pee

"third pit" possibly the most heinous euphemism for asshole i've ever heard

yeah we all know the third pit is your mouth

I thought it was the parietal eye?

And here I thought "pissing contests" were about height, not speed or volume. Clearly what we need is a physicist trained in fluid dynamics, or perhaps we should say, a Physicist with a capital Pee.

Don't know about third, but I've heard about

I got covid tested today and I honestly... Loved it. Maybe the nose is the fourth hole

— Myles Xavier (@xylesmavier) July 17, 2020

I shared that tweet with some friends and one of them agreed with it!!

There are people who enjoy sounding, so anything is possible.

of course there is a “wipe the troops” link. “...who are really saving our asses every day...”

so why do they do it? it is 100 percent marketing. here's the designer of the GMC Sierra HD https://t.co/8eXVnOy6VD pic.twitter.com/V5QPDQ6igH

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) August 7, 2020

From commenter XLProfessor:

"We were thinking of all those horrific scenes in movies where some truck comes bearing down on a child before cutting away," he continued, "we want to give our customers the ability to inspire that feeling."

good find mh

it’s just laughable, it’s just like they’re going to the ice cream shop dressed as cowboys or something

I think I stole it from lag∞n on twitter

Cobra GermSlayer anti-bac hand gel

iirc the majority of motor vehicles sold in the United States are now trucks (Canada can't be far behind).

there is no longer such a thing as a compact truck on the market in the US, the "midsize trucks" like ford rangers or toyota tacomas are pretty fucking big (especially compared to what they looked like even in the 00s). don't think ford sells anything that isn't a crossover, truck or suv right now. ridiculous situation.

Because I don't live in pickup country, I'm occasionally awestruck when I see one of those massive ram pickups, they're kind of overwhelming.

I saw an all black one yesterday that just looked like a fucking death machine

my fav is the fash trifecta: giant truck, molon labe sticker, blue lives usa flag

just kidding that setup should literally be a hate crime

these are literally everywhere where i live.

cars in general are a lot bigger now. the proportionality of most designs is just totally heinous, incoherent garbage. but death machine truck grills have got to be the ugliest. the funny thing is you look at the whole body of the truck and it's just like a bunch of huge arbitrary plastic parts with arbitrary lines and bumps and "fake bolts" glued together, it looks like it could all fall apart any second. it's lost any sense of human proportionality so it looks like one of those monster animals from the movie annihilation. it's also the truck version of the 'giant toddler' aesthetic. trucks from the past used to look convincingly masculine with so much less bulk - they looked like they were created in the context of a human world, not by a giant 3d printer. every time i see an old ford or even one of the small toyotas it gives me a good feeling. but in general the older i get the more repulsed i am by cars, car culture, the idiotic attachment that american adults have to cars, etc.

every time i see an old ford or even one of the small toyotas it gives me a good feeling

same. actually considering getting an old ford ranger when I finally bother to get my license

i was walking around recently and saw someone's 2000-ish f-150 parked in their driveway, and i was sort of shocked by how short it seemed. it's not a small truck, but it felt weird that it didn't tower over me at all.

I haven't seen a comparison but the ford ranger seems like it's closer to the size of the old f-150

I remember my friend's dad had a probably early 90s-ish ranger and it was a convenient size. they just don't really make a practical smaller-sized pickup anymore!

I used to drive a Chevy S10 for work. Now they're being crushed at monster truck rallies.

Just got an ad for a manly bidet, a classic in the genre of normal products made manly pic.twitter.com/TUYrNwpAGf

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) August 13, 2020

We discussed it upthread!