lol yeah I actually had a thought along those lines even as I was typing but didn't finish forming it. I guess I should say *within the personal care sphere*
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 December 2020 06:21 (three years ago) link
The male trope is to be into *gear*
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 December 2020 06:22 (three years ago) link
but your face is your people stereo
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Friday, 18 December 2020 06:41 (three years ago) link
beards are just subwoofers for faces
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 18 December 2020 07:50 (three years ago) link
^^^ this is actually true
― DJP, Friday, 18 December 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
ZZ Top are the DJ Magic Mike of faces
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 18 December 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
your poor balls... all dryempty and sad
I may be getting too Talmudic here but I think the use of the word "all" is meant to emphasize that BOTH of his balls are dry, whereas only one is empty and one (the other one) is sad
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 18 December 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
No, you don't get it, "empty" and "sad" are my names for my dog balls
― rob, Friday, 18 December 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
can you buy fuzzy zz-top covers for different guitar bodies?
― brimstead, Friday, 18 December 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
i already regret making this point but isn't "emptying your balls" a masculine goal and not a cause for sadness?
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
balls must be emptied yet they must always be full
-anonymous and ancient zen master of manliness
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Friday, 18 December 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
The eternal ouroboros of balls
― DJP, Friday, 18 December 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
What is the sound of one testicle clapping?
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 December 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
Fap
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Friday, 18 December 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
me and the boys after the vaccine drops pic.twitter.com/3vrHZotrkS— good and bad idiot (@focra) December 18, 2020
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 20 December 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va5T077Kbro
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
BuzzFeed: This Is What It's Like For Men With Eating Disorders
Kyle was trying to be honest about when his body image issues started, but he also wanted to be polite. “My mom is in the room, so I don’t want to say anything offensive,” the 16-year-old California high schooler told me in an interview in January. “But I don’t know a single member of my family over 40 who hasn’t been on Weight Watchers.”Early on — at about 12 years old — Kyle became anxious about his weight. “With this history of diabetes and hereditary obesity, I was pretty certain that I needed to eat healthy,” he said. That’s when he started to jog every morning. For lunch, he had a salad without dressing every day.By 15, he was cramming hours of physical activity into each day, without eating much. “I would leave the house at about 5:50 a.m., then run to the gym, work out for an hour, go to school for eight hours. Then I would go to dance rehearsals for four hours, and not make it home until about 10 p.m.,” Kyle said. “Not only was I overtaxing my body and mind and everything, but I didn’t eat any carbs. I was vegan. Pretty much tofu and lettuce, that’s all I ate.”Kyle attributed some of his body insecurity to what he was reading and seeing in culture, notably in Harry Potter. “Teenagers are supposed to ‘shoot straight up,’ especially teenage boys. I mean, in Harry Potter, they talk about how without any work, Harry just shot up. And it made me realize a lot of my friends were that stereotypical teenage boy who had just grown 6 inches over the summer. And that wasn’t happening with me,” Kyle said. “And that was very disappointing when I was getting messages from real life and the media that my body didn't fit into any of those ideal paradigms.”Kyle’s parents noticed that he had lost a significant amount of weight rapidly, and started researching whether this could be a problem. Meanwhile, the teen thought the weight loss was evidence that he was on the right path. “I thought losing weight was just a sign of a healthy diet and exercise,” he said. So when he sat across from a panel of specialists — a doctor, a dietitian, and a psychotherapist — and was given an atypical anorexia diagnosis, he was taken aback.He was only half listening when the specialists said he had to go to the hospital. “I was like, ‘OK, that’s cool. I have a couple of tests this week. Can I go to the hospital next week or next month or something?’” No, they told him. “They said, ‘You have about an hour to pack, and we want you at the hospital by dinner.’”
Early on — at about 12 years old — Kyle became anxious about his weight. “With this history of diabetes and hereditary obesity, I was pretty certain that I needed to eat healthy,” he said. That’s when he started to jog every morning. For lunch, he had a salad without dressing every day.
By 15, he was cramming hours of physical activity into each day, without eating much. “I would leave the house at about 5:50 a.m., then run to the gym, work out for an hour, go to school for eight hours. Then I would go to dance rehearsals for four hours, and not make it home until about 10 p.m.,” Kyle said. “Not only was I overtaxing my body and mind and everything, but I didn’t eat any carbs. I was vegan. Pretty much tofu and lettuce, that’s all I ate.”
Kyle attributed some of his body insecurity to what he was reading and seeing in culture, notably in Harry Potter. “Teenagers are supposed to ‘shoot straight up,’ especially teenage boys. I mean, in Harry Potter, they talk about how without any work, Harry just shot up. And it made me realize a lot of my friends were that stereotypical teenage boy who had just grown 6 inches over the summer. And that wasn’t happening with me,” Kyle said. “And that was very disappointing when I was getting messages from real life and the media that my body didn't fit into any of those ideal paradigms.”
Kyle’s parents noticed that he had lost a significant amount of weight rapidly, and started researching whether this could be a problem. Meanwhile, the teen thought the weight loss was evidence that he was on the right path. “I thought losing weight was just a sign of a healthy diet and exercise,” he said. So when he sat across from a panel of specialists — a doctor, a dietitian, and a psychotherapist — and was given an atypical anorexia diagnosis, he was taken aback.
He was only half listening when the specialists said he had to go to the hospital. “I was like, ‘OK, that’s cool. I have a couple of tests this week. Can I go to the hospital next week or next month or something?’” No, they told him. “They said, ‘You have about an hour to pack, and we want you at the hospital by dinner.’”
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
I lost 70 lbs in about a year during my freshman and sophomore years of high school, around the time that my parents first rejected my coming out as gay.
When they rejected my coming out the second time, when I was 17, I had stopped restricting calories and overexercising, but instead went headlong into the world of alcohol and drugs and other substances.
I finally came out to them successfully at the age of 23.
But all of that has left lasting problems, least of which is imagining what my life could have been like if I hadn't spent so many years in a haze of semi-closeted substance abuse.
Anyway, I'm fine with talking about all of this pretty openly, obviously.
― The return of our beloved potatoes (the table is the table), Monday, 8 February 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E42fo_9XIAE5Y31?format=jpg&name=large
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 27 June 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link
Whatever happened to just blasting your stereo at 3 am until your downstairs neighbor came up and knocked your front teeth out, I ask you
― I Scream For Ice Cream But Also Just All The Time And For No Reason (Old Lunch), Sunday, 27 June 2021 02:31 (two years ago) link
Lol
― treeship., Sunday, 27 June 2021 02:48 (two years ago) link
There's a homeless guy on my FB feed who was challenging people to fistfights for cash until fairly recently.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 27 June 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
https://sports.cbslocal.com/2015/11/10/rumblr-is-actually-just-a-hoax/
some toxic male energy here, but mainly of the tech bro variety
― Brad C., Sunday, 27 June 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
Masculinity is truly a moving target
pic.twitter.com/L87f5WtrUv— Hot Masculinity Takes (@MasculineTakes) September 12, 2021
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 13 September 2021 04:56 (two years ago) link
that guy is obviously taking the piss, come on now
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 13 September 2021 05:13 (two years ago) link
Feel free to scroll through his posts. If it's a bit, he's absurdly committed to it.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 13 September 2021 05:35 (two years ago) link
really beautiful essay
https://thebaffler.com/latest/dicks-pics-dark-rooms-nathan
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Friday, 15 July 2022 02:46 (one year ago) link
Yeah it is, thanks map
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 15 July 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
i cosign everything in that essay
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 15 July 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
I successfully installed new doorknobs and deadbolts on my apartment's front and back doors this week. Fuck yeah, man stuff!
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
My wife does all that stuff in our house.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
There is something deeply satisfying (for me) in fixing stuff in my own house. I have my limits, though: if it involves cutting water, power or gas to the house, I won't touch it.
On the other hand, I despise yard work and gardening.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
Think that fits more in this thread, unperson: repairing things
― peace, man, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
I despise yard work and gardening.
This is the #1 reason I'm going to be a renter/apartment dweller for the rest of my life. I grew up in the suburbs, oldest son of a single mom, and all that shit fell to me as a teenager; when I moved out at 18, I told myself, I have mowed my last lawn, I have raked my last leaf.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
Yes! My old man thought making his kids use a hand mower was a good way to build character.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
lawns are dumb but gardening is pretty awesome
― brimstead, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
lawns and mowing them are one of those things that just seem custom built to make any self-thinking male kid hate arbitrary authority for the rest of their lives
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
gardening can be lovely but weeding is no fucking joke, that is hard work.
Last weekend, my youngest son and I joined a school "service day" to help tend to the neighborhood park. We cleaned the place up, weeded and spread mulch for the young trees. Stuff like that is really engaging for me and a chance to bond with my kid. I just have no interest in maintaining my own garden.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
I just replaced our old, clunky, gas-guzzling mower with a little Ryobi electric mower and it has been great. Very lightweight, so quiet I could probably get away with it at 5 in the morning, no spilling petrochemicals down my arm. If it holds up for a few years, I can't see a downside.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
If I inherit my mom’s house and manage to keep it I’m ripping out the grass and xeriscaping. St. Augustine doesn’t belong in Texas.
She’d let me do it for her now but she’s afraid her neighbors would be mad.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
xeriscaping otmfm
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
i went to a battery-powered mower last spring and it has been a delight, mowing will never be my favorite thing to do but getting rid of the gas mower has made it a million times better.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 01:31 (one year ago) link
my back yard is so small i have a mower with an electrical cord lol
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 12:48 (one year ago) link
We have a lawn service, my lawn is sloped and has terraces/retaining walls in the back and it would be a pretty crazy one-man job. My wife actually does 90% of the gardening and she really likes it - she has been on a kick of restoring native plants, pollinator plants etc. and it has had amazing payoff - we have tons of birds and are starting to get butterflies. Also a good number of bees but not in any way that creates a nuisance.
I do occasionally fix stuff around the house, and I enjoy it, but it's a matter of time as much as anything. When we first moved in I was proud that I figured out how to fix our dryer - it was the middle of COVID and hard to find repair people, and I was also just kind of mannishly stubborn about it. The roller went bad, and I took the drum and the belt out and everything. But having never done it before it took me way longer than it would have taken a pro, including two trips to home depot, and I had to muscle off a completely rusted bolt. I also briefly panicked thinking "what if I did something wrong and the dryer catches on fire?" First time I ran it I just sat there for like 30 minutes making sure it didn't. Then it only worked for like two months before the belt went bad too, and we said fuck it and just bought a new dryer.
Other than that I have done basic stuff like replacing light switches, hanging floating shelves, assembling furniture, very minimal plumbing repairs like replacing a section of pvc pipe under a sink or a washer, but beyond that I rely on others. We have a great handyman who we've kind of become friends with so I usually just call him.
I think if I was retired I'd be into doing my own yardwork, home repairs etc. Definitely something soothing about getting into that zone and using an entirely different part of the brain, as well as your body, when you work on a computer all day.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
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Agree with all this -- also, Dad forcing me to vacuum cars every Saturday morning.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
Lawns are dumb and bad in general, but I have to say that mowing was one of my favorite teenage chores. I'd put on my walkman and know that nobody was going to bother me for the duration. Plus I liked the immediate sense of accomplishment, I could see the progress of my work. It was not gendered work in our household tho — both my parents mowed as did my sister, we had a rotation.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
I have done basic stuff like replacing light switches, hanging floating shelves, assembling furniture, very minimal plumbing repairs like replacing a section of pvc pipe under a sink or a washer,
See, I just let this stuff remain undone, thereby striking a blow against suffocating norms of masculinity
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
🤝
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
I use a push mower. I like noise in my music but can't stand it in the garden.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link