Okuu_Fusion said:
So there's this guy on some radio show I listen to who, whenever anything that involves video games(or animation, comics, sci-fi, fantasy, or whatever remotely related), is mentioned, he always answers with...
"I don't watch/play/read that stuff... I like girls... I like sports... I like ESPN..."
Basically, everything else not sports related or involves real women to this guy is not manly... its all kids stuff...
People in my daily life are starting to say similar lines and its starting to piss me off...
So, Besides ignoring them (or turning the radio off), What is a good response to people who think that everthing you like is not "Manly"?
How would you respond to these "manly" people?
With the paraphrased quote below:
"A man being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
I consider Japanese calligraphy as manly as boxing, and a man should be able to tell someone he loves them as easily as he can fire a rifle.
You, as a man make an activity manly with your own expertise, passion and joy. Playing rugby to make yourself a man will garner the same result as standing in a garage to turn yourself into a car.