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4/24/2014 5:14 pm

For thousands of years, men have demeaned other men for not living up to a brutish, masculine ideal. Men who either can't or choose not to live up to that ideal—nerds, geeks, gays, submissives, etc.—have always been subject to these labels of being "less than." And, of course, many women also value the "masculine ideal" when choosing a mate, further giving credence to the stereotypes.

Obviously, these are very complicated questions you ask, and there really are many, many factors to consider, but I think it all comes down to one highly destructive human emotion: fear. Fear is the source of all types of irrational prejudice, and fear is at the heart of all this masculine bluster. You often hear ridiculous claims about the "feminization" of men; this hysteria comes from people who can only see masculinity through one myopic lens and think that accepting other types of masculinity threatens their own. It's the same stupidity that the opponents of same-sex marriage cite as their reason for their opposition...basically it's just irrational fear that someone else's choices threaten their own. It's very juvenile thinking.


~LastGuy

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