Comments on: Manliness

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Sat, 08 Sep 2012 22:40:14 +0000

[...] it’s too confused to find its own hindquarters at twilight — needs to do is first find a definition of masculinity. It then needs to defend that definition and nurture [...]

By: USMaleSF

USMaleSF — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:00:17 +0000

Masculinity is always social. A man is always a man among men. It’s a species endowment which individual men have to find their place within.

To borrow from psychoanalyst Anthony Stevens, the essence of the male archetype is rank. For the female, it is affiliation. Each sex is a virituoso, both group and individual, in their opposite and complementary value.

Men naturally compete with each other –which means that both dominance AND submission are male dynamics– for their place within the male hierarchy. Few men –loners– exile themselves from that ranked grouping.

And through that ranked grouping, men create affiliation with each other.

Women overtly resist hierarchy and rank, enacting affiliation first of all. (But any observation of them in groups will show you that they use this affiliation to create their own shadow hierarchies.)

Power and love: primary human realms.

By: Ouroboros

Ouroboros — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:00:42 +0000

I have had a few discussions with other males about what the essence of masculinity is, but i think I have more searching to do in order to find the right words. I “feel” what it means to be masculine, but it is sort of mysterious to me when I try to word it.

Also, some reading to anyone who is interested:
http://www.jack-donovan.com/documents/No%20Mans%20LandPDF.pdf

By: YOHAMI

YOHAMI — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:52:39 +0000

+1. The goal oriented frame is the key.

I was checking Jack Donovan stuff. Masculinity for the gay men… sort of bizarre if you ask me, in the sense that as a man you want to put your seed in the most fertile ground possible and and dominate, rather than having an external dominant force put his seed on you.