spokepoker said:I've never thought of british men as a whole as being masculine.
frenchcorporation said:spokepoker said:I've never thought of british men as a whole as being masculine.
We were, until a couple decades ago. British men used to run the world pretty much. hard to do without being masculine
Matsufubu said:Is this perhaps in part to do with the control of language? As has been previously stated, 'masculinity' to many is now a dirty word, so younger men are keen to disassociate themselves from it. No doubt that men are less masculine than they were, but perhaps the word itself has something to do with it.
Captainstabbin said:I wonder if the wording doesn't influence the result. If I'm honest, I'm not "totally masculine". I spent half an hour talking about superhero movies with a friend yesterday, I wouldn't call that masculine. I wouldn't call being wordy on a message board (even this one) to be particularly masculine.
The lower numbers for the under 25 crowd could be due to old fashioned rebellion against parents. "Dad's a dick, I don't want to be like him." Then, when you have your own family, realizing that he wasn't a dick, he was making tough choices for his kids...often without cooperation from a modernist wife. You start to appreciate, even admire, the masculinity that you resented. I suspect that, if you made the age grouping 16-19, 19-22 and 22-25, you'd see a steady decline in the disapproval of masculinity as these kids enter the workforce and start their own family.
redpillage said:Captainstabbin said:I wonder if the wording doesn't influence the result. If I'm honest, I'm not "totally masculine". I spent half an hour talking about superhero movies with a friend yesterday, I wouldn't call that masculine. I wouldn't call being wordy on a message board (even this one) to be particularly masculine.
The lower numbers for the under 25 crowd could be due to old fashioned rebellion against parents. "Dad's a dick, I don't want to be like him." Then, when you have your own family, realizing that he wasn't a dick, he was making tough choices for his kids...often without cooperation from a modernist wife. You start to appreciate, even admire, the masculinity that you resented. I suspect that, if you made the age grouping 16-19, 19-22 and 22-25, you'd see a steady decline in the disapproval of masculinity as these kids enter the workforce and start their own family.
I dunno man - it's one thing to rebel against your dad (justifiably so or not) - it's quite another to not consider yourself 100% masculine if you've got massive amounts of testosterone flowing through your veins. As a matter of fact - that would be the counter argument: Young bucks should feel even MORE masculine than fellows with dropping test levels and a lack of libido. How are those kids going to see themselves when they reach fifty??
Maybe it's all the fucking soy in today's diet. Maybe it's part brain washing. Whatever it is - it's scary as hell in the face of an Islamic invasion. Don't expect those chaps to jump at the chance to defend Britain or to make a stand against the increasing Muslim take over of their country.
Captainstabbin said:I get that, but the dramatic drop in the number after 25 is suspicious. What would account for that? A modern 25 year old was raised with the same diet and programming a 23 year old was, yet there's such a drop in the number. The cause is most likely the stern realities of entering the workforce and starting their own families.
N°6 said:^My instinct is that the likelihood of nationalism gaining any sort of influence in the UK is lower than anywhere else in Europe.
AboveAverageJoe said:frenchcorporation said:spokepoker said:I've never thought of british men as a whole as being masculine.
We were, until a couple decades ago. British men used to run the world pretty much. hard to do without being masculine
Well, it has been more than a few decades since British supremacy, hasnt it, indeed the middle and lower classes and perhaps a smidgeon of the upper crust always embodied manliness it was only the effeminate fops of the true blue bloods that ever gave British masculinity a black eye. Today's British emasculation most likely began with Thatcher's ascension and the modern era's saturation of Social Marxists values which permeate most of the West. At one time even the British aristocracy had many esteemed masculine gentlemen. May I give you the Marquis of Queensbury:
AboveAverageJoe said:Well, it has been more than a few decades since British supremacy, hasnt it, indeed the middle and lower classes and perhaps a smidgeon of the upper crust always embodied manliness it was only the effeminate fops of the true blue bloods that ever gave British masculinity a black eye. Today's British emasculation most likely began with Thatcher's ascension
Ethan Hunt said:AboveAverageJoe said:Well, it has been more than a few decades since British supremacy, hasnt it, indeed the middle and lower classes and perhaps a smidgeon of the upper crust always embodied manliness it was only the effeminate fops of the true blue bloods that ever gave British masculinity a black eye. Today's British emasculation most likely began with Thatcher's ascension
You may want to do a bit more reading up on British political history with a statement like that.
It has nothing to do with Thatcher who is arguably the most conservative prime minster in modern British history. It was the next Labour government post 97 that had an a much more open door policy. That was Tony Blair and Gordon Brown Labour governments and then continued with the current Conservative administration.
The emasculation likely occurred during Tony Blair first premiership.