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There will be mantyhose ("The exposure to these fabrics and colors are homosexualizing this manly man!", says the team of scientific researchers)...there will be fifth-grade boys doing double dutch ("He must be pushed down the stairs! For America! For masculinity!", says the group of immature schoolchildren)...and just when you think that's all, the truth will emerge...

Oh My God!!! I think he's gay!!! - part 3 - Victims of the Bullies
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Perhaps I should know better by now, but why is it that such bullshit marginalization of men that participate in 'girly' things is so tolerated, yet when simpering wimps like Johannes Mehserle shoot normal guys like Oscar Grant, we don't go making fun of them by calling them Joanne and making limp-wristed caricatures to drive home the point that stuff like this should not be considered manly? Isn't using the threats of harassment and violence to keep men from doing certain things the right thing to do? Then it should be perfectly fine to humiliate idiots like said simpering wimp above and anyone else that does the same thing. If we're lucky, no policeman in his right mind would dare shoot a black man in such an unjustified way out of fear of having their manhood questioned, since having your manhood questioned is the worst thing that could happen to us fragile, delicate, unstable men. That of course assumes the above-mentioned shame tactic is both effective and properly applied...

Maybe shaming men and boys out of 'girly' things isn't very effective since for every one that gets beaten to death and featured in the news (if they're that lucky), another one will appear and do something they're not supposed to do. Maybe if the bloodthirsty, psychopathic masses that can pick on people minding their own business were to turn their anger on just a fraction of the people at the top that are directly responsible for our current economic crisis, said people at the top would clearly get the message not to fuck with those they're supposed to serve if they want to continue to be seen as the proper, upstanding men we're supposed to take them for (and not get pushed down the stairs at their jobs by blue-collar thugs).
Unfortunately, I look back at the idiocy that such "hey, men aren't allowed to do that! get 'em!" attitudes produce and dreadfully look forward to the idiocy that it will bring in the future, knowing well that for all the freedom and choice I'm supposed to have in life, my options are limited to either acting and looking like I have the power that men are supposed to have or to take abuse from some moron who thinks he has power.