What's more manly?
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Now watch me headbutt this tree TO DEATH!Zhukov said:
I think we're looking at this a little skewed, as what makes a man a true man is many different things to many different men.
I think as regards gaming, you can't get a better man than Ezio Auditore.
I think you can't get more ridiculous and frankly warped than Marcus Phoenix and every other muscle bound spaz mareen out there.
Yahtzee had an excellent Extra Punctuation about it.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/7597-Extra-Punctuation-Male-Protagonists
Personally, I think that a man that finds it difficult to express his feelings is fine.
I'm actually quite the hot head myself, so I express myself fairly lively if it's about something important.
If you're in a relationship and you can't express yourself to your partner, it's probably going to cause problems.
It's never healthy to suppress your only feelings on something.
I think we're confusing machismo with the qualities that make a mature adult male.
doesn't whether you keep it in or express it, as long as you do it with minimal drama and then you're manly.
I deal with my emotions by just not giving a shit about what others think about me. When it comes to my problems I generally talk to one of my female friends, they seem to understand things better and won't call you weak.
I can keep my feelings inside because I know that if I was ever pushed too far I could kick that guys ass easily but no one knows that because my tolerance level is so high. It's only happened to me once when I was about 8 and I kicked a kid over the back of a chair.
I can keep my feelings inside because I know that if I was ever pushed too far I could kick that guys ass easily but no one knows that because my tolerance level is so high. It's only happened to me once when I was about 8 and I kicked a kid over the back of a chair.
Manlyness, how I've come to see it anyway, is when you're a sports and cars-loving idiot that has a forehead bigger than a shoe.
Being "manly" is childish. In a bad way.
Being "manly" is childish. In a bad way.
Well, I have seen both extremes.Kenbo Slice said:
1. A man who believes he is Superman and can't show a moment of weakness in front of the women because he feels he needs to protect them. I guess he could be called an old-fashioned man.
2. A man who likes feeling emotions so much that he gets drunk and subjects everyone to his own emotional roller coaster (he has improved over the years but still pretty bad). He says he's a feminist.
Both are a pain in the keister if you ask me, but for different reasons. Superman will eventually start taking things out on other people because he's bottling it up too much. Roller Coaster man is a pain in the tukhus because he keeps bringing up old hurts and blubbering about them over and over and over and over and over again!
I believe a properly manly man is somewhere in the middle. He expresses what needs to be expressed in the proper context. He does not just feel emotions merely for the "fun" of it and ends up torturing the people around him who are upset because he is upset. He does not bottle it up and then take it out on his friends and family because he's trying to hide his pain from everyone, either.
I hope that makes sense.
Degree. Degree matters quite a bit. You can go all emo and express far too much, wear your emotions on your sleeve. That is definitely not manly. Would Patrick Warburton do that (t-shirt!)? No, he would not.Kenbo Slice said:
I guess the hardest, most extremest, and manliest thing to do is talking about how you feel in a calm, collected manner.
That's not "keeping it all inside" nor being overly emotional, but a highly effective third option. yay!
That's not "keeping it all inside" nor being overly emotional, but a highly effective third option. yay!
I think if more men flipped out ant turned hysterical every now and then, they would have less pent up anger and would be less likely to get into barfights and abuse their wives at home.FuktLogik said:
See? I can play the gender stereotype card, too. It's just great, isn't it? Just don't beat anyone up over it. Seriously. Please.
Well I have a epic beard so I'm already manly. Hell I could cry like a baby and if anyone gave me any crap, my beard would punch em in the face with its beard fist.
OT: There a difference between being an emotionless rock...*cough cough* master chief and being a big whiny baby aka Alistar from dragon age being manly is in the middle someplace.
OT: There a difference between being an emotionless rock...*cough cough* master chief and being a big whiny baby aka Alistar from dragon age being manly is in the middle someplace.
Are you a male? Then you are manly.
How you do or do not express your feelings has nothing to do with it.
How you do or do not express your feelings has nothing to do with it.
A real man would express himself without fear for what people thought of him.
Take the poking a fire with a stick analogy (that most manly of things). It is obviously more manly to get up and poke the fire with a stick infront of everyone than it is to sit next to the stick and maybe look at it now and then. Same principle.
Take the poking a fire with a stick analogy (that most manly of things). It is obviously more manly to get up and poke the fire with a stick infront of everyone than it is to sit next to the stick and maybe look at it now and then. Same principle.
