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Old 09-01-2018, 09:03   #1
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Are you masculine?

It seems Walmart wants to expand the definition of masculinity. I was watching ESPN the other day when the below advertisement popped on the TV. This company is wholly owned by Walmart . I guess I'm just an old dinosaur. Because it seemed to me these guys could use a little testosterone therapy. Then again my dictionary is not new either.

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Old 09-01-2018, 10:20   #2
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It seems Walmart wants to expand the definition of masculinity. I was watching ESPN the other day when the below advertisement popped on the TV. This company is wholly owned by Walmart . I guess I'm just an old dinosaur. Because it seemed to me these guys could use a little testosterone therapy. Then again my dictionary is not new either.

http://creativity-online.com/work/bo...finition/55049



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Why would anyone call their company Bonobos a type of Chimpanzee?
If they can't get the species right, why would they get the gender right?
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Old 09-01-2018, 10:28   #3
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Sound and looks like they are trying to define the new feminity??

BUTT my dictionary is ole too...
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Old 09-01-2018, 12:04   #4
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It was as if they had all heard the word for the first time.
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Old 09-01-2018, 14:16   #5
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My reply: “Is there a mustache in Mexico?!”

Their conformity to “non-conformity” is appalling and, sadly, expected. I do not have a son to teach how to be a masculine man; however, my daughter will know what a man should be - both from my good and bad examples (I try to emphasize the good and apologize for the bad).

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Old 09-01-2018, 17:54   #6
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This is why I haven't grown a beard even though I don't have to shave anymore. Too many skinny jean wearing hipster types growing mega beards so they can feel more manly. At least one of those men in that commercial was actually a woman and several were what we considered in the old days to be flamboyantly gay. When I was a teenager I worked in the fine dining restaurant industry which is notorious for being very gay friendly so I knew a fair number of openly gay men. The funny thing is, most of them were more masculine than a lot of straight guys I see today.

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Old 09-02-2018, 00:41   #7
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This is why I haven't grown a beard even though I don't have to shave anymore. Too many skinny jean wearing hipster types growing mega beards so they can feel more manly. At least one of those men in that commercial was actually a woman and several were what we considered in the old days to be flamboyantly gay. When I was a teenager I worked in the fine dining restaurant industry which is notorious for being very gay friendly so I knew a fair number of openly gay men. The funny thing is, most of them were more masculine than a lot of straight guys I see today.

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Old 09-02-2018, 05:21   #8
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This is why I haven't grown a beard even though I don't have to shave anymore. Too many skinny jean wearing hipster types growing mega beards so they can feel more manly. At least one of those men in that commercial was actually a woman and several were what we considered in the old days to be flamboyantly gay. When I was a teenager I worked in the fine dining restaurant industry which is notorious for being very gay friendly so I knew a fair number of openly gay men. The funny thing is, most of them were more masculine than a lot of straight guys I see today.

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Old 09-02-2018, 11:25   #9
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"None of these really sound like me"

Of course not, you are an inefectual panzy who expects the world to be nice to you and accept your shortcomings as natural and make allowances for inability to overcome your own failures.

How is being strong, aggressive or powereful" a negative?
Like anything else, masculinity (at least as these fools present it) is just another tool that some make use of. Like anything else it comes down tools how it is used (like a gun in the right hands)
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Old 09-02-2018, 12:26   #10
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Old 09-02-2018, 12:54   #11
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Bonobos: Pygmy Chimps. Sounds right.
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Old 09-02-2018, 18:38   #12
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Perhaps the fact that bonobos are known for wide-spread (no pun intended) homosexual behavior (and the gay community constantly point to this as some kind scientific proof that being gay is normal) played a part in the company selecting this name?
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Old 09-03-2018, 05:35   #13
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What the hell did I just watch? I just kept waiting for the Tampax commercial to start.
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Old 09-03-2018, 08:37   #14
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Wide array of male progressives...they come in all shapes, sizes and colors. One common characteristic - no brain.
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Old 09-04-2018, 07:33   #15
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Wide array of male progressives...they come in all shapes, sizes and colors. One common characteristic - no brain.
Also, testosterone levels are probably bottomed out from strangulation of their testicles by their skinny jeans - at least that might help keep them from reproducing...
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