I see @RadioFreeTom taking a bit of criticism for his article pointing out Trump& #39;s lack of manliness, to include personal attacks at Tom as an "academic" (and therefore unqualified to comment, apparently). I happen to agree with Tom on this subject, and... https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/612031/">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp...
..I& #39;m no "academic" (although I do have a couple of degrees with a 4.0 GPA) but I do respect intellect more than strength. I say this as a man who has led men (and women, once) in combat and killed armed men and done all sorts of manly-man stuff, which in my society seems to...
..correlate nearly exclusively to violence, which I believe is messed-up personally but it& #39;s what we praise here in the US of A, so stay in school and go get some kills, I guess. Shoot enough people and maybe they& #39;ll make a movie about you or at least pay you to go on Fox and...
..talk about how fucking awesome it is to shoot desperate people in America& #39;s oil wars, or call fire out of the sky like some god of old and kill some raggedy-ass motherfucker in an alley hiding behind rubble which is rubble because you bombed his & #39;hood a couple years back...
..but I digress. We were talking about masculinity and just talking about it made me want to take my shirt off and go bench-press something. I don& #39;t even know how to address the toxic shit-show that is the modern-day concept of masculinity other than maybe pointing out that...
..if I wanted to hang out with a bunch of & #39;roided-out dick-swingers I could just kick it with B Squadron or either of the assault troops I& #39;ve worked with, and I hate that my society has seized on this persona as some form of idealized concept of "real man" and now we have...
..boy-men playing dress-up with AR-15s and ballistic nylon, pristine ballistic nylon at that, so insecure about their own manhood that they& #39;re compelled to wear a costume in public. Incels publicly flagellating gun-dicks like chimps in a monkey house. Children in men& #39;s bodies...
..dressed like some merch company convinced them that operators dress but looking about as convincing as a Lolex wristwatch. "Academic", ffs. Mad respect to the academics and the subject matter experts out there, especially the women who had to work even harder and for less...