marketing of masculinity

Reminds of a subreddit called 'badwomensanatomy'. Edifying stuff.

I've seen that several times and it never stops making me lol

Reminds me of the time i tried to shave with a women’s razor

What alloy do they use in women's razors again? Femininium? Ovularium? I used those damn things once and totally got passed over for a promotion the next day.

Yeah, I shaved by balls with one once and I swear they got smaller!

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tbf those are some manly fuckin' measuring spoons

Headphones the color of the chair father drank himself to death in, an ax to destroy the yard tree.

what is that little loop thing between the shaving brush and the headphones

Keyring? Artisanal IUD?

I don’t know. I’m also wondering what the hand axe is for

I guess it’s for shaving, because I sure as hell wouldn’t use the little non-wooden, non-leather razor down there in the left corner

I've actually owned a lovely hatchet for most of my life, but it is basically useless. Small pieces of wood are best cut with a bypass lopper (or just bent with hands); larger ones with a handsaw; largest ones need a powered reciprocating saw or chainsaw. There is no size of stick for which a hatchet is the right tool.

Artisanal IUD?

lol!

Isn't the little loop a money clip? Not to say dudes don't bake, but those measuring spoons seem out of place. Unless for drugs or something.

is it me or is that aesthetic already feeling outdated? this thread is eight years old and that HAND HEWN AXE, BRASS RAZOR thing feels stale

it does kind of feel dated but it is still everywhere

it was probably almost a decade ago when my friends had to run to the hardware store for something related to a backyard grilling part we were having and one bought a hatchet to be funny. we were making fun of that aesthetic then, and somehow it's still rolling?

there is, I swear to god, a store locally that has all this man stuff for sale, and they have a guy who artisanly restores old axes with a grinder and sharpener

so what you're saying is that making fun of this aesthetic is outdated and stale

that, too

we might be stuck with it, it's like all my peers who locked their tastes in back in 1999 and everything that was cool then will forever be cool

there are people who are locked into being rustic axe man. gonna be buying new and refurbished rustic axes until they die

they should be sharpening their old rustic axes, ideally with an axe stone while standing in the woods with no shirt

everything i learned about masculinity i learned from God of War on PS4, during the last week

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It's like the 1890s has taken a permanent spot at the nostalgia table for manly shaving goods and hatchets, just like the 1950s won't let go of theme diners.

gonna be buying new and refurbished rustic axes until they die
LOL

long time ago i made this wall hanging thing with an ax and my roommate at the time thought i was nuts. i guess i sort of was. i painted the handle bright red.

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Puffin got it. Wtf.

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hmm, that's one use for it, i guess. i was thinking it could be used to improve the presentation of manly pubes - squeeze up a lock of pubes apart from the others, as if to say "there is an abundance of pubes, here is but a sample"

but could be used for keys as well

Like, these types of sets are only ever bought to give as gifts right? I can't imagine an adult buying it for themselves.

OK, let me turn my wtf away from the keyring for a moment and focus it on Karl Malone.

hey man i'm just brainstorming

pubestorming, more like.

pube management is an emerging market, and when it finally through to the mainstream there will probably be cured wood hair ties, along with hand-vacs with fine leather grips to help clean it all up

I thought pube management had peaked as a masculinity market, but no... the nice trimmer I bought for my face now has a body hair version you can buy

imo nose hair trimmer technology is due for a boost

The new OneBlade Face + Body comes with a click-on skin guard. Perfect for sensitive areas that need extra protection, like underarms and yeah, down there too.

accompanied by the requisite picture of a shirtless man peering down the front of his boxer shorts

I think I have literally never pulled back the waistband of my boxers and peered down my junk the way it is done in those stock photos

"down there" is among the prissiest things sayable btw

there's probably a marketing angle that doesn't get technical or too prissy

"Safely trim your junk with our trimmer."

maybe they could promise never to show you stock photos of men peering down shorts and a guarantee they'll never have an ad showing kiwi fruit

pubescaping is the hardest of labours that i perform but one that is so necessary every week that i anticipated a solution to it with bated breath

anticipate*

i like that keychain tbh

wouldnt a real man, like, learn how to work metal and make this themselves?

Keychain seems like it could be a little pokey.

the duluth trading company breaks my spirit

file this under my favorite thing I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/qlkcr2C1g8

— a (@annkatsha) May 9, 2018

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An intereeting thing i noticed in Japan is how while yes, there wre beauty products marketed to men, its not as easy to distinguish the two as it is here

Like stateside, there's the weird insertion of like fucking bears or tigers or guns or camo pic.twitter.com/LNBOhU6e9I

— k 👍Ⓕ wagata (@TeethBeetles) May 28, 2018

The label of my Ultra-Moist Baby-Soft Exfoliation Gel (specially formulated for sensitive skin) features a bear wearing camo pointing a gun at a tiger.