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No perfect answer to this situation. __________________ “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do.” Gandhi |
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Basically acting like man, you're accused of living up to man made gender stereotypes. Man are being taught to act like women and women are being taught to act more masculine. Does anyone here honestly think the metrosexuals and the nice guys would have survived taking on sabre toothed tigers? |
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BUT THE PATRIARCHY... I actually saw something that a feminist wrote saying that she feels bad that men aren't allowed to express themselves and then proceeded to say that "but other men did this to men. The patriarchy is oppressing men too" ... ... ... get that **** out of here. I really don't understand that mindset. It's a societal problem. Not a man vs woman problem. And people can say that it was an extremist feminist who said that, but when you join a group and adopt a label, your individuality is gone. Personally, I see this as the same thing as a woman deciding not to shave her legs or armpits. She has every right to make that decision and at the same time, no one is obligated to find it attractive. A man can dress up for sex if he pleases and a woman (or man) can find it unattractive if she does. It's just a matter of finding a compromise or finding someone else you are more sexually compatible with. I mean, if this is something he REALLY wants to do and it is something you REALLY want him to not do and both of you feel like you can't come to a compromise, then that is a valid reason to redefine the relationship. It isn't a matter of dumping him because he is into cross dressing. It's a matter of being sexually compatible. Also, trying to understand someone else's fetish is very difficult to do. Someone can try to explain to me why someone might be into idk poop or something and I can listen to why someone might find that sexy and I can respect that their brain is wired to find that hot, but no amount of understanding is ever going to make poop play anything I want to explore or be okay with a boyfriend who insists on having it within our sex life. I'm just not into it and will not partake in it. Ever. Am I close minded for that? Nope. |
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__________________ Helping to create a kinder, gentler world by flinging poo. |
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When a man acts too aggressive, too assertive, or too macho. He's considered insecure, mentally ill or perhaps even dangerous. When a woman does this it's empowerment. When a man dresses like a woman, wears make up, cries, likes to spend more time in front of the mirror then his girlfriend. He's considered a real man for being in touch with his feminine side. Yeah that's right, in today's western society, the more feminine a man acts the more he is praised for it. The more masculine he acts, he is ridiculed and/or attacked for it. |
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__________________ Helping to create a kinder, gentler world by flinging poo. |
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Yet we're told by society that a man who acts this way is a jerk or a bad boy yet someone who acts like a so-called "nice guy" is nice. Do you know why they're considered nice? Because they're a pushover for women. It's an unconscious way of telling men that if you act masculine it's bad and if you act submissive and feminine it's good. |
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I can tell you how to express masculinity in clothes, because it is super easy - simply stop paying so much attention to what you wear. |
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Whatever is standard within the BDSM community should stay so within the community. Using it outside of it would be like using professional jargon with lay people. Again, thanks for quickly coming up with a good alternative. |
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I can tell you that men who are Mensches realize that women have a harder lot in life - they have to carry, birth, and nurse their young. That women get to enjoy a bit more in terms of satin, lace, or interesting looking clothing is a tiny compensation for their harder lot in life. And if men like the feel of lingerie - ok, have them clothe their ladies in the lingerie they like, but not wear satin and lace themselves. I would find a man wearing female lingerie laughable, as in "clueless", and by clueless I mean "unaware of the critical difference between men and women".
The awareness of the critical and undeniable difference between men and women and the reverence in which men who are Menshces hold women for that reason is what makes true men men, and not aggression. It has nothing to do with aggression or machism - it simply boils down to this one very simple matter, in a "yes/no" manner. I somehow missed that critical distinction in that both ex husbands did not have that reverence, but many other men in my life, including my wonderful 6th grade boyfriend, with whom I reconnected via Skype in 2013, for the first time since 6th grade, have that reverence. Well, at least I was on the right track responding to male interest when I was in middle school. If a man is a Mensch in the manner described above, but happens to enjoy putting lingerie on himself and can explain that interest without losing the reverence described above, then, I guess, I would be OK with it, but if a man feels entitled to women's lingerie because he is trying to get in touch with whatever, then - no way. I mean - getting in touch can be done without my presence, right? In the OP, if I read it correctly, the woman's partner wanted to wear lingerie in her presence. So he is asking her, in essence, to help him get in touch with whatever that side of his is that he is trying to get in touch with - I think that might be a tall order. but let us ask OP, since she has not posted and appears to have abandoned her thread. PS I can see comic value in having a man dress up like a woman, so I guess a couple that enjoys the lighter, or farcical, side of sex might enjoy cross-dressing for that reason. |
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Looked up more posts by OP. All posts were made on 2/18. It does not seem that she is returning to read the responses on her threads.
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__________________ Mr Ambassador, alias Ancient Plax, alias Captain Therapy, alias Big Poppa, alias Secret Spy, etc. Add that to your tattoo, Baby! |
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Men are more likely to be homeless, men are more likely to commit suicide, men are more likely to be murdered, men are more likely to end up living a lonely life. Men get screwed over in divorce Not saying women have it easy. Both men and women have privileges, but both have things that go against them. |
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Bit off topic sorry __________________ “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do.” Gandhi |
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Men are this way because on average, we have up 20 times more testosterone then women. That's why men cry less then women, not the lie that society is telling us that men cry less because they've been told to hold in their emotions. F to M transexuals report feeling less in touch with emotions when taking testosterone, the opposite happens with M to F transexuals. Men are told that whenever we like to look at women, attractive women, that we're perverted, objectify women and perhaps even potential rapists. It's a bad thing for a heterosexual man to embrace his sexuality, yet the opposite for a woman. Yet it's perfectly acceptable for homosexuals to embrace their's. It's perfectly acceptable for men to dress like a woman but if a man acts too masculine, he's insecure and putting on an act. Men are being emasculated and we need to wake the **** up and realise what's happening. |
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The exact point I was making is that a Mensch does not have to act aggressive or look particularly masculine (the man in London does have wonderfully virile voice, but on his Linkedin picture looks like an average guy with early baldness, which is a shame since back in middle school he had wonderfully thick wavy medium brown hair). To be a Mensch you need to have a certain set of beliefs and principles you live by, and you can be soft spoken but still be a Mensch. Or you can have a lot of visible attributes of virility and be a sissy. If a man is not magnanimous, wise, and firm in his principles, there is no point in dealing with him at less than an arm's reach. By the way I totally agree with you that the idea that looking at a woman with appreciation somehow objectifies the said woman is an epitome of stupidity. So as you see, I have painstakingly reviewed your posts and taken out of them something with which I agree, because I am a polite and considerate poster who tries to find common ground when she can, and you are not. And no, I did not redact your post to alter its meaning - I cut it short to make the quotation short. The post was nonsensical as a whole. If you do not like being told that your post is nonsense as a whole, the first step for you is to find each place when you called my posts, or my references to somebody else's thoughts, nonsense (I do not remember them all, but it will be a good homework for you to find them), and apologize in each individual case. How a man handles apologizing (with grace and elegance, hopefully...) also speaks volumes of his virility. Just to make sure - if you now run to get moderators to edit my posts for calling what you do stupid, you will confirm that you are simply a sissy who thinks that acting macho is cool. I come of the culture where being a teacher's pet was considered the horriblest thing of all in public schools, and running to moderators is like being a teacher's pet. So I have given you a warning - if I hear from moderators that you have complained, it will confirm what I suspect, an that is that you do not have true, innate virility at a core level. So let us see how you will handle this. I am curious. Again, I agree with you that the whole concept of objectification is entiretly stupid. |
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Would be nice if you could actually prove your reasons of why women have it harder. Just saying it, doesn't make it true. I didn't think you were mirroring me, because to mirror me you'd have to least counter my points I raised about the problems that men have to deal with. You see, I did call your post nonsense, but I did at least give an explanation as to why. By the way, you said a Mensch was someone who accepts a woman has it harder in life. None of this waffle you mention above was said, just that a man has to accept that a woman has it tougher, or he has no dignity as a man. I guess that means that as a man I have no dignity or honour according to you. Well that's fine, I couldn't care less how idiots judge me. But just to mention, a man that doesn't question such ridiculous idiocy, surely has to be sissy. Thanks for agreeing with me on something though ( about the objectification thing) and I did apologise, I said "sorry but this is nonsense". That was an apology that I thought your post was crap. Learn to read sweety. |
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