marketing of masculinity

XPs Can you give any kind of equivalent examples of the masculine/feminine vocabulary/way of talking? Or is it just like 'dude what up' vs 'oh my god!! how have you beeeen I can't believe it!!!'

nb I don't believe that most people actually fall into these stereotypes

― kinder, Monday, May 28, 2018 2:44 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hm, of course there is the "what's up" and "dude"

i was specifically referring to phrases that only men say, personal pronouns the speaker uses depending on their gender, and different verb conjugations for male and female speaker -- but there are also "neutral" ways to say things, but that sometimes falls under the "formal" category

male and female speakers*

this also reminds me that colombian men don't use the informal you when talking to other men, because if they do, it sounds like they are gay or in some intimate relationship

so they only use the formal you

“My dad has an infant dick” pic.twitter.com/2fSdK3gFCb

— jasen comstock (@JasenComstock) May 30, 2018

The miami beach peninsula

jesus

“I learned it by watching you, dad!” *shits self explosively*

tbf my son did get his voluminous shitting skills from me

This is a mess of a thread

As if a "marketing of masculinity" thread could be anything else.

This one amused me. I guess a weightlifting apparel site is low-hanging fruit for this kind of marketing, though.

https://i.imgur.com/9DKA9Vt.png

wait a second, should i have been attributing my quotes to myself every time i say them?

- Bob Marley

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52703af3e4b04f2720625215/577fd16cff7c50451be6db1e/590384b92994caa5907787d9/1516136630692/FullSizeRender.jpg-3.jpeg?format=2500w

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52703af3e4b04f2720625215/577fd16cff7c50451be6db1e/5aba938d575d1f96b4b174c2/1524078197695/yellow-mug.jpeg?format=2500w

TYPE ANGRY

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Oh great, and now my fingertips hurt on top of everything else arrrgfff VfcknZjjzmlhjYzvHZmlJyzZmkKi

http://imgur.com/dfBPvTHl.png

Amazon keeps recommending this to me when I browse e.g. male vitamin supplements and I just might start wearing one around town.

That's kinda cool, actually; you could rub it up against the laptops of people you don't like.

http://imgur.com/iaLN1Qzl.png

^ wringing a simulacrum of humor from the pretense that everything is exactly as important as everything else. but the set-up and timing are incompetent.

different, but the same

https://scontent-atl3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/61623f43c077b8c3d34532ee69976296/5BBD6A50/t51.2885-15/e35/33727805_448740428885221_2895419792775184384_n.jpg

"for the fascist in you"

makiage
smh

Both cynical in the same way that all marketing is but I think the pressures that lead to the latter are infinitely more pronounced and entrenched than the former. Feels wrong to have them in the same conversation

Manly Health and Training, With Off-Hand Hints Toward Their Conditions

https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mosemed.jpg

Sorry if this has been posted upthread but I was only made aware of it thru a targeted Instagram ad:

https://nypost.com/2017/06/03/this-intensive-boot-camp-is-designed-to-revive-a-mans-primal-nature/

Drills included being thrown off a boat into the Pacific Ocean while blindfolded, dunked into a tank of ice water, and visiting a cemetery where the men are told they will die in 20 minutes and must first write goodbye letters to their loved ones.

“We teach them how to be a man,” said Warrior Week founder Garrett J. White, a 40-year-old blond with tattooed biceps who looks like a video-game soldier.

“Women are leading [both] across the board in business and at home . . . and living more powerfully than men today. And that’s causing complete chaos for men.”

Sorry if this has been posted upthread but I was only made aware of it thru a targeted Instagram ad:

https://nypost.com/2017/06/03/this-intensive-boot-camp-is-designed-to-revive-a-mans-primal-nature/

Drills included being thrown off a boat into the Pacific Ocean while blindfolded, dunked into a tank of ice water, and visiting a cemetery where the men are told they will die in 20 minutes and must first write goodbye letters to their loved ones.

“We teach them how to be a man,” said Warrior Week founder Garrett J. White, a 40-year-old blond with tattooed biceps who looks like a video-game soldier.

“Women are leading [both] across the board in business and at home . . . and living more powerfully than men today. And that’s causing complete chaos for men.”

Literally the preceding post

What kind of pussy writes letters in a cemetery.

are they trying to turn them into goths? cuz this is how u get goths

an intensive program for male executives from tech, finance and other high-pressure industries to learn the “hidden science of accessing (nearly) unlimited sex, power and money as a married business man,” according to the program’s website. Rahm shelled out $10,000 for the privilege of being bound, gagged and run ragged for five days and nights in Laguna Beach, Calif., in April.

Basically a boot camp for men who want to become even bigger assholes.

I am ok with more Goths.

By the fall of 2007, White’s empire had crumbled amid the mortgage crisis, and he sold off his businesses and home in Utah.

“When you lose your identity as a businessman, you literally lose the power to create. You become weak,” said White. “It becomes awkward to engage with powerful men. So you spend most of your time with women or men who drink all the time.”

White, a consultant at the time, said he was heading toward a second divorce as he relied more on porn and drinking.

“I wanted to connect sexually with my wife, but I operated like a huge p - - - y. I might as well have thrown my balls into the garbage disposal.”

Why stop there?

so am i, ordinarily, but it's the thought of corporate goths that is worrying me xp

White, a consultant at the time, said he was heading toward a second divorce as he relied more on porn and drinking.

see, if you just never get married to begin with, you can rely on those things as much as you want! maybe he should stick to those instead of heading into marriages that aren't working

Corporate goths are like yoga yuppies living in some billion dollar real estate

They want the biz cred and street cred

All they're looking for is for something to make them feel like they are young again. Something to make them feel like they are fun again.

lol eric otm

Goth2Boss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL9tm3LHG6Y

Luv2goth
Luv2realiti

Oh noooo turns out I can’t use my new mesh sponge pic.twitter.com/vYUuJET9Wa

— Mara “Get Rid of the Nazis” Wilson (@MaraWilson) August 12, 2018

^ that puts me in mind of the fact that the button plackets down the front of a man's shirt and a woman's blouse are reversed from one another, for no reason other than to show one is intended to be worn by a man and the other intended for a woman.

There is some reason for that though - something about women being dressed by others?

As I understand it, back when upper class women were dressed by their chambermaids, their male counterparts in the upper class were also dressed by their valets, but without quite the same amount of fuss and whalebone involved.

Hm if thats so then that cant be it.

men could dress themselves but women's clothes - at least the ones with buttons on them - were more complicated, so a woman needed someone else to do the buttons. it wasn't just the upper classes, it was everyone because the lower classes would receive hand-me-downs from their masters. there were clothes that didn't have buttons of course but those were for sleeping/ being around the house. i got all this from "a time traveller's guide to restoration britain" - highly recommended!

Another theory has to do with how a man might need to unbutton his cloak with one hand while drawing his sword with the other. I think that's apocryphal, though.

it's certainly an entertaining image

Went looking for kid’s bedroom decor inspirations and ended up discovering the three stages of male adolescent sociopathy pic.twitter.com/qO1kLrTif3

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) August 13, 2018

Whatever the origin of this oddity, it is supremely functionless now and there's no purpose in retaining it.