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UPSG -> RE: Are Women afraid of maleness? (1/23/2009 7:31:54 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SnowRanger
Hello A/all,
Yesterday as I was driving to work (the Rut Job not the fun job), I heard something on the radio that almost made me run off the road. A woman was giving an interview on a local talk show to promote her book She mentioned that many women are intimidated by men being male. I'm not talking about silly machismo. I am talking about men in their natural state: ie: Scratching where it itches; Yelling or groaning at the tv during a football game; Wearing your favorite old tech school sweat shirt (you know, the sweaty one)! How could guys being guys be scary?
I find it hard to belive that Lockit, AAkasha, Tammyjo, MsStarlett. Lady Hibiscus or Venatrix could be scared of anything male. I admit that I am an old fashioned Timber Beast. I realize that I need polish. On the other hand, I am house broken (sort of); I don't bite and even if I did, I've had my shots!
Say it isn't so Mistresses! Say it isn't so!
Respectfully,
Mike
SnowRanger
I think that is all a stereotype of males. A negative stereotype (but all or *most* stereotypes have some level of truth in them). I don't think the current President of the United States fits those characteristics per se, advanced socio-economically emulating those based stereotypes, nor attracted his high class and attractively built wife with characteristics that fit those stereotypes.
I think quite often, and I'm not saying everyone, you can find feminist men and women that disparage or find intimidation in male characteristics that fought off Nazi's, conquested the Americas, built bridges, destroyed half of Europe in wars, created international law, built civilization, and developed most systems of modern life thatr give us convience.
I'm not White, and I don't like many things Whit males have historically done (what I regard as negative anyways), but it's popular today to disregard their historical contribution to many of the things we enjoy today (minus the creation of the USA which propaganda would have you believe was the greatest thing ever created in human history).
Being a rugged male, is not necessarily bad, it's a trait and a necissity that allowed the French and Anglo-Saxon mountainmen to surivive in the Westward conquest of the what is now the United States. That may not be a collection of traits needed in Parisian society, cosmopolitan and urban as it is, but in the Rocky Mountains?
A dominatrix would likely be more akin to the nobility and officer class that have always took the fields of Europe in war, especially in the circa 17th century or so. They would come to the rural rugged area carried in class and fine style. Pampered. Empolying (whipping maybe or at least driving by determined command) the type of men you describe into an area of work that would produce a well ordered, and run camp, if not creating easy, Eden like existence for her.
Maybe different men are good for different things? I don't know.
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