evansvillethompsongunner
Shooter
- Oct 29, 2009
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I honestly can't tell you whether it's unreasonable or not, it's not my relationship, nor was I commenting on the nature of yours - as I clearly stated in my post. This just reminded me of the wussification of the American male - the feminization of American culture, one in which doing those things which even one hundred years ago would be prized and praised are now denigrated - mostly due to media influence, but also due to parenting and cultural shifts, particularly, in my limited opinion, the rise of the 1960s counter-culture and the rise of women's rights in the 70s - feminism... the feminization of men, which is demonstrably true, particularly when compared to our hunter-gatherer origins and even compared to the less egalitarian 1940s and '50s.
Proscribed gender roles do exist, from infancy, and if someone doesn't fulfill all or even most of what is expected for that gender, so be it, excellent. Personal choice is what makes this nation great. But - and this is a large but - but don't then, as women, having changed and shifted the gender roles to a more feministic stance, and having indoctrinated society and societal expectation with those shifted roles, expect society to then herald back to an earlier, more masculine society, with more masculine men.
Pick one, ladies.
Either you want a man who can kill and prepare a deer and keep you safe, or you want a man who can help pick out a duvet and style himself metro- (homo-)sexually. The two are - despite what you have been lead to believe by television and your parents and your friends - mutually exclusive.
"Do you know what a duvet is?"
"A comforter."
"- It's a blanket. Just a blanket.
Why do guys like you and I know what a duvet is?
Is this essential to our survival in the hunter-gatherer sense?"
"No."
"What are we, then?"
"I dunno. Consumers."
"Right. We're consumers.
We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty.
These things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines,
television with hundreds of channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine.
Viagra. Olestra..."
"Martha Stewart-"
"F**k Martha Stewart, she's polishing the brass on the Titanic.
It's all going down. So f**k off with your sofa units and Strychnine green stripe patterns."
- 'Fight Club,' Manliness soliloquy, excerpt
non-post-script: Scorpio? 'Vade retro!'
Seriously, good luck with yours, but if he hasn't shown an interest by now, he probably never will, and trying to change his innate tendencies to prefer certain activities over others will probably breed resentment and an inferiority complex. Tough issue. Maybe see if some of your female friends would like to do some of the above activities which you enjoy? Not sure, I don't know you and I'm a whippersnapper to boot, so take the prior with however much salt as you please - but remember, low-sodium no
diets are the healthiest.
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