What's more manly?
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A true man does both. A true man must know who to share his emotions with and who to hide them from; for he who knows a man's innermost feelings knows how to cause ruin in that man.
You got me kinda confused here... I think that I just did. As with everything else this is my subjective opinion.Tiscolfo said:Who say's its more manly?Sharalon said:Expressing emotions is more manly, however I'm not very good at this so I guess I'm not really a man...
I'm sorry if I didn't answer your question properly.
Yeah, that was pretty much what I was going to say.Jordi said:
By the traditional definition of manly, at least, it is not manly. Honestly, I think this whole 'expressing your feelings is manly' movement is just an attempt to artificially change the standards of what's manly.
You could argue that expressing your feelings doesn't make you less manly, but it certainly doesn't make you more manly.
Now watch me headbutt this tree TO DEATH!Zhukov said:
I think we're looking at this a little skewed, as what makes a man a true man is many different things to many different men.
I think as regards gaming, you can't get a better man than Ezio Auditore.
I think you can't get more ridiculous and frankly warped than Marcus Phoenix and every other muscle bound spaz mareen out there.
Yahtzee had an excellent Extra Punctuation about it.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/7597-Extra-Punctuation-Male-Protagonists
Personally, I think that a man that finds it difficult to express his feelings is fine.
I'm actually quite the hot head myself, so I express myself fairly lively if it's about something important.
If you're in a relationship and you can't express yourself to your partner, it's probably going to cause problems.
It's never healthy to suppress your only feelings on something.
I think we're confusing machismo with the qualities that make a mature adult male.
doesn't whether you keep it in or express it, as long as you do it with minimal drama and then you're manly.
I deal with my emotions by just not giving a shit about what others think about me. When it comes to my problems I generally talk to one of my female friends, they seem to understand things better and won't call you weak.
I can keep my feelings inside because I know that if I was ever pushed too far I could kick that guys ass easily but no one knows that because my tolerance level is so high. It's only happened to me once when I was about 8 and I kicked a kid over the back of a chair.
I can keep my feelings inside because I know that if I was ever pushed too far I could kick that guys ass easily but no one knows that because my tolerance level is so high. It's only happened to me once when I was about 8 and I kicked a kid over the back of a chair.
Manlyness, how I've come to see it anyway, is when you're a sports and cars-loving idiot that has a forehead bigger than a shoe.
Being "manly" is childish. In a bad way.
Being "manly" is childish. In a bad way.
Well, I have seen both extremes.Kenbo Slice said:
1. A man who believes he is Superman and can't show a moment of weakness in front of the women because he feels he needs to protect them. I guess he could be called an old-fashioned man.
2. A man who likes feeling emotions so much that he gets drunk and subjects everyone to his own emotional roller coaster (he has improved over the years but still pretty bad). He says he's a feminist.
Both are a pain in the keister if you ask me, but for different reasons. Superman will eventually start taking things out on other people because he's bottling it up too much. Roller Coaster man is a pain in the tukhus because he keeps bringing up old hurts and blubbering about them over and over and over and over and over again!
I believe a properly manly man is somewhere in the middle. He expresses what needs to be expressed in the proper context. He does not just feel emotions merely for the "fun" of it and ends up torturing the people around him who are upset because he is upset. He does not bottle it up and then take it out on his friends and family because he's trying to hide his pain from everyone, either.
I hope that makes sense.
Degree. Degree matters quite a bit. You can go all emo and express far too much, wear your emotions on your sleeve. That is definitely not manly. Would Patrick Warburton do that (t-shirt!)? No, he would not.Kenbo Slice said:
I guess the hardest, most extremest, and manliest thing to do is talking about how you feel in a calm, collected manner.
That's not "keeping it all inside" nor being overly emotional, but a highly effective third option. yay!
That's not "keeping it all inside" nor being overly emotional, but a highly effective third option. yay!