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redgreenvines
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this is a great list but does it have to be "real" hahaha!
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Thank you You're right, real is just a subjective and unnecessary word in this context
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redgreenvines
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self respecting man perhaps - that fits easily enough
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Hmmm, I like that
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I like your answer, but I think everyone could do that. A real man. I mean mostly this is a metaphor, no? I know I'm a man, but I'm an exclusively homosexual, trance-listening, poetry and philosophy writing bookworm... Not really a "real man." I think the association I have immediately to the construction 'real man' is something like an usually stoic man with epicurean tendencies on the DL, who provides for his children, gives back to the community, enables his wife to persue her dreams. I mean you have people advocating for a breakdown of the nuclear family, and with that a 'real man' might become the type of just ultra masculinity, maybe like a gladiator in Rome, though they were looked down upon by society - even if they were rich. I have no idea. I was raised in the South and they would say a real man is someone who works all day, drinks all night, and recites the Bible on Sundays, or something like that... and also "huntin', fishin', muddin'." I guess it's up to you. I just think I'm a weird advanced monkey. The question is really not so cut and dry, and really may bring up many questions. Frankly many of the conclusions one could draw I find absurd.
I guess this was a long IDK
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Re: What is a "real" man? [Re: Blue_Lux]
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you do know cowboy!
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lol brokeback mountain?
Seriously though, what is it?
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Re: What is a "real" man? [Re: Blue_Lux] 1
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I don’t think being gay or into traditionally non-masculine things like poetry exclude someone from being considered a real man. Some would say it does though so I get where you’re coming from To me a man is to be less likely swayed by emotion and sticks to his guns. I mean no offense to women who are by nature more emotionally driven As this song describes, a man decides what’s right for his life and everyone has their own way of doing it si=J-ogs3N8E4WwcTt3
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Did you ignore me, RGV's?
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Re: What is a "real" man? [Re: Blue_Lux]
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Blue_Lux said: lol brokeback mountain?
Seriously though, what is it?
it is as confusing as any identity quest is, and it is as oppressive as any social expectation.
but it is also an age old challenge - contextually, and literally.
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What is a "real" man?
I'm a real man.
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okay I have to post this. and I will translate it for you. This is going to be highly explicit, but I will say maybe Catullus had something to say about a real man . . .
 
Catullus 16
Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo, Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi, qui me ex versiculis meis putastis, quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum. nam castum esse decet pium poetam ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est, qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem, si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici et quod pruriat incitare possunt, non dico pueris, sed his pilosis, qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos. vos quod milia multa basiorum legistis, male me marem putatis? pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.
okay the poem employs a few ambiguities, which are very clever but outrageous. I found a good translation and altered it slightly.
I will f*ck you up the *ss down the throat, c*cksucker Aurelius and f*ggot Furius, who think, from my little verses, because they're a little soft, that I have no shame. seeing that it's fitting for a poet to be morally pure, but it's not necessary for his verses to be so. which then indeed have taste and charm, If they are delicate and have no shame, And because they can incite an itch, And I don't mean in boys, but in Those hairy men who can't move their loins. You, because my many thousands of kisses You've read, you think me less of a man? I'll f*ck you in the *ss and skull-f*ck you
clearly many people have different ideas. excuse the harsh language. He is saying basically his verses will destroy his critics utterly and completely.
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Re: What is a "real" man? [Re: Blue_Lux]
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He sounds more like a little boy lashing out at critics Also he sounds pretty insecure in himself
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it's the stirrups without the horse
very perforational cowboy
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he uses many tricks of words in it that make more sense, like pudicum and he mixes up shame and modesty and bashfulness in words that cannot be translated with the same entendres in English. His critics were basically actually the macho aggressive male type accusing him of being soft and denying male masculinity, so he basically flips that upside down and does all kinds of tricks, and then ends saying he will destroy them with their own tactics. It's the same sort of thing rappers do today. But his other poems are all about all kinds of other things regarding love.
And he literally calls them little boy fuckers basically
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quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum. nam castum esse decet pium poetam ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est, qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem, si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici et quod pruriat incitare possunt, non dico pueris, sed his pilosis,
okay whatever
this is the part confusing things because in english it sounds like pedophilia, but by 'boy' they really mean beardless, and it was extremely common for men in their 30s and up to have younger beardless men as their butt buddy basically. Catullus is actually known for going against this tendency of roles, and he was bisexual. in Rome people were extremely sexual and it was common for teenagers to be legal prostitutes. So obviously the morals are not the same. I just think it is funny how ultra masculinity works and it can easily turn into you know the sadist type, and that is what Catullus is also saying.
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I was thinking assless leather chaps myself
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I get a massive kick from outrageous things for some reason. From time to time, please excuse my boorish pleasures.
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Re: What is a "real" man? [Re: Blue_Lux] 2
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Blue_Lux said: I get a massive kick from outrageous things for some reason. From time to time, please excuse my boorish pleasures.
Nothing wrong with that!
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TheStallionMang said: I don’t think being gay or into traditionally non-masculine things like poetry exclude someone from being considered a real man...
I think that some of the non-traditional hobbies or career choices can be done in a masculine or feminine way.
People, clearly trying to push the boundaries, know what they are doing and are not confused.
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