If you have to be told how to be "manly" then you ~~probably~~ definitely aren't whatever the fuck you even think "manly" is.
this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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JFC if someone is this worried about their "manliness" or lack thereof, there's really no hope for them.
And yet you're describing a wide percentage of young men
Who? People keep fucking saying there's a lot but all I see is a vocal minority? You see 1/200 and you focus on them?
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So basically a church of assholes competing with each other to out asshole each other. Then they wonder why their kids don't talk to them and that "manliness" skips a generation. I am willing to bet these "absurdly manly" men are in the closet and over compensating.Using an iron is too feminine? Bitch if you want to be respected as a professional don't fucking show up in wrinkled ass clothes. Why do you think the army fucking irons? Because you look good in unwrinkled clothes. God dammit I am going on a rant again.
Irons can burn in hell. Either steamer or dryer, but ironing legitimately sucks. It somehow makes my shirt more wrinkly than I started.
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c/dumbesttimeline
Nothing more manly and confident than having to constantly validate your manlyness
While all of you meme and joke and minimize the threat, a rising wave of disaffected boys has grown up under the most toxic of social environments and still NONE of you take this seriously.
When you see the world in ten years time you will kick yourselves for doing nothing to stop it now in its infancy
Stop what? Stop it how? Suddenly make every parent in the US loving, compassionate, and effective at raising their children? Or maybe we could just fix the economy? One of those is bound to work, easy!
This wispy-bearded Texan is in the vanguard of a movement urging conservatives to relocate to Russia. Last August, Putin introduced fast-track shared values visa for those fleeing Western liberalism.
Oh no ... don't do that. Us lefties would hate if all our manly men left us to deal with these Haitians eating our dogs alone. That would trigger and own us so much.
Well, they'll probably have manlier problems to deal with since moving to Russia is leopard eating your face speedrun, with examples such as Russel Bentley or that one conservative Canadian family that sold their everything to move to Russia and got their money stolen by Russian banks.
Zero sympathy. Zero.
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Let them become even less dateable, so us lesbians can get all the other girls 👩❤️💋👩
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A younger brother of mine just baptized into an Orthodox church nearby. Is this the same thing?
The Russian Orthodox are in schism from most other Orthodox. You'll need to get more information to get an answer to that question.
Russian Orthodoxy was established from it's foundation as a fake religion that exists to keep political power in Moscow. This is very different from other Orthodox.
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There's several. I don't know if the Greek Orthodox are doing the same machoism, but they're related
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"But in the past year-and-a-half our congregation has tripled in size."
Still the same 2 dudes, I deliberately misleading you with that phrase and was referring to bicep circumference.
15 dumbasses in East Bumblefuck: *do something*
BBC: A NEW GLOBAL TREND?!?!
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Georgetown Texas. No wonder
Texas, you say
Manliness has always been a scam.
Source: me having grown up in the Balkans where manliness tends to reign supreme as a life goal
It's stupid on so many levels.
First off, it implies there is some sort or series of social masculine trait(s) that are in some way desirable. It gets even more stupid when this turns into expectations, like "you're a man, you should X".
It's kind of sad but not unsurprising that there's an industry trying to capitalize on the resulting insecurities.
I think it was a positive aspect of the MGTOW idea to reject these expectations and do your own thing.
I think mgtow pretty quickly became an incel movement, at least from what I saw on reddit.
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This is a good movie, if you don't mind the blood and gore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Northman
It follows the life story of a manly man... not something many would truly pursue for themselves even if they had the opportunity.
Manliness is an ideal intentionally placed out of reach. An insecurity to be exploited
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Only if your conception of masculinity is stupid. There are plenty of manly role models out there, we've just largely decided not to pay them much attention.
The manliest man I can think of: Norm Abram. His achievements:
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Made a living wearing flannel shirts
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Excellent beard
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Distinguished service award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology
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Built a sailboat
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said "Not roman orgy, roman ogee" on national television and got away with it
If you step out of line with what is considered acceptable (and The most toxic insecure men incent things to be afraid of out of nowhere) you get harshly punished. Learned this the hard way growing up trans
Trans man or woman?
In my experience, transfemme although trans men have had interesting things to say on the topic
I guess you got off the hamster wheel at some point. I imagine trans men being faced with this stuff.. That's not to say there's no toxic stuff on the femme side of things.
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