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Here’s an unending repository of this kind of guy
I like the dude who carries a knife, a pen, a flashlight, and a Gameboy Advance SP GameBoy Micro with a copy of Final Fantasy Tactics
a Gameboy Advance SP with a copy of Final Fantasy Tactics
This was me in 2003
It’s not even the good Final Fantasy Tactics! I wanna yell at that guy that they ported War of the Lions to mobile and it’s the definitive version of that game.
They’d address potential for injury better by wearing a skateboarding helmet and introspecting about their anger management strategies but here we are
They see themselves as fraud (to their existing societal perception of masculinity) and surround themselves with tokens of their perception of societal perception. Probably connected to absolute alienation of labor, where you can say “I made this” in manual labor (even if it’s shipped somewhere), when you do some spreadsheets it’s much harder to see your work in real world.
MMA is cool
Holy shit, i was trying to articulate this theory to my GF a couple months ago. My gen x performativly masculine boss got me a craft beer man crate for christmas. all the branding and instructions and stuff were all like huge block letters, manly etc. the instructions had a bunch of shitty sarcastic self-aware ‘jokes.’ but all i could think about was who this kit was made for: probably a man in his 30s who in his 20s though of himself as a tough dude/ladies man/big boy. Now though, he’s had a couple of kids, put on some weight and spends his life at an utterly dehumanizing (therefore emasculating) job. Therefore, he buys products that sell a masculine lifestyle so he can try to buy back the pieces he’s lost.
That’s interesting. I guess the increasing awareness of other identities has forced people to stop taking masculinity for granted and thinking of it as simply “being normal”, and forced them to turn it into an aesthetic that one intentionally cultivates. Thus the extra level of consumerism.
great post about a type of guy
