marketing of masculinity

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.

However I totally want a treehouse and rope bridge over my bed. That looks fucking great.

Where are the bookcases?

We let Hammer have a little BBQ grill in his room once, and man, the insurance guy almost didn't believe me when I filed the claim a week later.

jungle room is kinda cool, has "The birds don't sing, they screech in pain" stenciled on a wall unseen from that angle.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/de/f8/a4/def8a48db13bf98704a0e293dd421bd0.png

Noice!

related: Yesterday a 15-ish-looking kid approached me as I was walking toward 7-11. He said, "can I ask you a favor?" I said, "possibly." He said, "can you buy me a gameleaf?" I said, "I'm sorry, I don't understand." He said, "Game leaf. Wild berry. Cigars. I'll give you money."

Now, I was once a young person. Never much of a tobacco smoker, but I loved booze and weed, and definitely went to great lengths to get them. So I guess I empathized, but at that moment, I just didn't feel like dealing with it, so I said "sorry, man, can't help you."

Is it weird that if it had been a 20-year-old, I'd probably have taken pity and bought him beer? But tobacco for a 15-year-old just seems... nope.

And come the fuck ON. Wild berry flavored? How about some fuckin CAMELS, boy? Fuckin MARLBORO. Shit, even BLUNTS would be acceptable.

it would've been for a blunt surely

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dn8_Ui9UUAAz45d.jpg

I like beans but in small quantities

Pork i love

I can pork all day

blechh

can you just.. not?

U luv it

http://www.funnysigns.net/files/pork-love.jpg

fire!

received a facebook ad for this

sorry lads, probably not gonna happen
https://flashpack.com/insights/2017/03/10/men-should-travel-solo-on-a-small-group-holiday/

ah, missed the most important bit

Though there was one element which I wasn’t expecting in that I didn’t realise just how much more popular Flash Pack trips would be with women!

a trip with a group of people that's not all men doing "adventuring" might be more appealing to people, sure

Something similar was posted a while ago, but this takes it to its logical level. I saw these in a 99 Cent Store, so maybe they've already been rejected by the marketplace.

http://www.sterlingglobalproducts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/bobs_header1.jpg

Not exactly the right thread I guess, but this is now being advertised to me, why

http://imgur.com/UBKkz9Xl.png

haha i just saw that one too

haha thats kinda dope tho

I think it would actually look alright if it was just sort of vaguely "knight inspired" and didn't have an actual helmet built in

no way, then the knight hoodie illusion is incomplete

Kinda want that for walking the dog in winter tbh.

i'd wear it? imagine peeping into the helmet and surprise. it me.

“Surprise. It me.”
—Joan of Arc