My girlfriends in Brussels have a shorthand for sizing up a guy’s manliness: l’homme soja and l’homme poulet. Up to you to decipher which one is the red flag
Thanks for this great piece! I’m proud to inform you that your observation about video games being the essence of modern masculinity triggered spirited debate in my group chat of 7 guys who largely don’t play games.
Sorry I wanted to read this but I’m playing the new Monster Hunter alongside a guy whose username is “BallsBreath” and whose character is a mostly nude elven chick with turbohonkers
Actually though, a great read. Very grateful to have a boomer dad who is just a straight chiller with very little man-hangups. Of course what that produced in me is something on the soyboy spectrum (fashion, video games, talking about feelings), but I have found a balance by getting some guns and being physically strong. I think there are new kinds of men emerging, finally. All the models we have are like 300 years old with leftover DNA from a couple thousand years before that. I have to imagine there was also tension when Neanderthals started noticing a lot more of those upright type fellas walking around
This is very funny! It does explain something I have often wondered about—why are men over 40 so obsessed with the youth and what the youth are doing. The are in such a panic about it. So it’s a thing about their fathers? I guess my bafflement is that I don’t know any men like this—I am married to one, he is over 40, he has no such anxieties about the male teens and their sex lives, or about teens generally. He was very close to his father, a wonderful man in every way, and he is an absolutely amazing father. All the men I know are good fathers, and their children seem to be doing well, and the are not worried about the sex life of teenagers. But online—my goodness!
Choose your technocrat fighter
Bezos - juiced up gym rat
Zuck - third wave mma hobbyist
Elon - larping rpg kingpin
we need a fashion fighter too
Don’t sully your craft like that
I'm going with juiced up gym rat because it just rolls off the tongue. Where do I place my bets?
Underdog: Bill Gates - cutthroat corporate image rehabilitation king
This was really funny
My girlfriends in Brussels have a shorthand for sizing up a guy’s manliness: l’homme soja and l’homme poulet. Up to you to decipher which one is the red flag
Haha thats a good shorthand
Thanks for this great piece! I’m proud to inform you that your observation about video games being the essence of modern masculinity triggered spirited debate in my group chat of 7 guys who largely don’t play games.
hahah amazing what’s the conclusion
It became about what else is masculine coded these days and we had a few candidates like YouTube 😅
lol podcasts, health is an interesting one cause there is Huberman and there is Goop
Interview podcasts in particular seem like a category of media straight males love across the lowbrow to highbrow spectrum
Sorry I wanted to read this but I’m playing the new Monster Hunter alongside a guy whose username is “BallsBreath” and whose character is a mostly nude elven chick with turbohonkers
dudes rock moment?
He (she)? Was nice with the charge blade tho.
Actually though, a great read. Very grateful to have a boomer dad who is just a straight chiller with very little man-hangups. Of course what that produced in me is something on the soyboy spectrum (fashion, video games, talking about feelings), but I have found a balance by getting some guns and being physically strong. I think there are new kinds of men emerging, finally. All the models we have are like 300 years old with leftover DNA from a couple thousand years before that. I have to imagine there was also tension when Neanderthals started noticing a lot more of those upright type fellas walking around
I’d read a “new type of guy” starterpack.
This is so good lol
Thank you Umahg
This is very funny! It does explain something I have often wondered about—why are men over 40 so obsessed with the youth and what the youth are doing. The are in such a panic about it. So it’s a thing about their fathers? I guess my bafflement is that I don’t know any men like this—I am married to one, he is over 40, he has no such anxieties about the male teens and their sex lives, or about teens generally. He was very close to his father, a wonderful man in every way, and he is an absolutely amazing father. All the men I know are good fathers, and their children seem to be doing well, and the are not worried about the sex life of teenagers. But online—my goodness!
sounds like you've a wholeome group of friends and family. I assume they dont spend too much time on the internet
wait this goes so hard (awesome work man/boy/mate/lad/homie/mister/dad/son really enjoyed this one)
Thank you bro/brother/brethren