Macho (likes sports gun etc etc) is fine, if that's who you are. Rude, mean, fake, dishonest, poor hygiene are all offensive.
Macho (likes sports gun etc etc) is fine, if that's who you are. Rude, mean, fake, dishonest, poor hygiene are all offensive.
I feel the same way, and I think a lot of us will admit that is how they feel.
I have always had a frustration with the macho bull that is out there. The perverbial "p**sing up the wall contest that guys can get into to see who the alpha male is, is crap. When the nature shows on TV, show the bulls in rut, the macho's smash their heads together while the smart one's sneak in and breed. Even in nature the brains can and do best the brawn of the macho's, at times. It is just the way they are wired, and it does not make them correct, then again, it does not make us correst either, just better dressed.LOL
I like myself, regardless of the packaging that I may come in! It's what is on the inside of the package that counts!
[SIZE="2"]Yes, every day. In fact I’m glad the baseball season is over (I won’t be watching the post-season), so I can get away from all the chewing, spitting pigs that inhabit every dug-out from Boston to Los Angeles. I also won’t have to endure these “MAN UP” TV commercials, or the sight of the Viagra man going home to his allegedly frustrated wife. No more men who cannot seem to figure out how to shave, no more camo-buddies riding in an ATV “bonding” near Brokeback Mountain, no more three men on a couch, watching football as a macho fairy lectures them on what they SHOULD be doing, and so forth. No more caps on backwards, kill the queer, drink responsibly, keep moving, never retreat, and all the rest of the masculine nonsense that disgusts me. Maybe they’re doing me a “service” by continually showing me the other side, tempting me to defect, but I am quite comfy in my feminine “setting,” trying to “GIRL UP” as often as possible…Originally Posted by brassieres
Why do I watch, or put up with, this macho panoply? I do it to keep my sister company, since she is the baseball (and TV) fan and I get to be near the nearest WOMAN I know…
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Gillian (post #28) I couldn't agree more. I take my dog for a walk a couple times a day. It's not just the way he interacts with other dogs that's interesting, but the way he deals with all the bushes and mailbox posts. For dogs, life is just one big p*ssing contest. Good thing he's neutered!
We're not unlike the rest of the animals. It's how we're wired: Mine's bigger than yours - don't make me prove it!
Notwithstanding the testosterone flowing in the early years, I never cared how macho people thought I was. Sometimes the acting is easy to spot. Gotta laugh sometimes.
Frederique! Attacking football watching? Now you're getting personal. If I was there, I'd beat you up. Uh...if I could. haha
oh ya - that feeling is beyond any other, I also love it.
Every time I see a extremely big macho man I realize why I wear panties.
Elizabeth Ann,
Identified with your response about the pendelum swing of preferences in male media roles(Clint Eastwood to Gary Cooper). The values you stated of strong sense of self worth,and knowing the right thing to do, are tough standards to live up to as we progress through life. Thought your summation will stick with me for some time.
Besides not knowing the real reason I desire to CD, in my male role I am in a position of authority and make daily decisions for the well being of a lot of employees. When I am Mikka I am just Mikka! Relaxed, no worries and comfortable with who I am. It is such a nice release to be Mikka. Someday, I will suggest to my wife that Mikka and her go away for a weekend. Even though she has never met Mikka, she knows Mikka exists, she is warming up to meet her some day.
I like honestly "macho" men, men that are always ready to do whatever is necessary no matter how hard or dirty it might be. I very much appreciate having a male or female around who will willing pick up the heavy stuff so I don't have to. Ideally in a perfect society everyone would respect the roles each individual wants to present, I have mine and the macho men types fill in where I'd rather not. I'd like to think they appreciate my skill set and are glad they don't have to tend to babies or waste too much thought soothing social relationships.
In all honesty however, I can't personally divorce myself from the feeling and urge to occasionally preform some of a macho man's work, perhaps a dress or short skirt would help keep that urge contained! I'll have to try that.
In my twenties i was quite macho and i even enjoyed it. Today i am just the opposite and i am also proud of it. Maybe i also like the macho guys although i am not gay but for sure i love macho grils - behaving very macho like - i love them to be macho with me.
All I know is that most of these "macho men" are easily controlled by the" power of the pussycat".lol So,it sure seems like that power beats their "manliness" any day! If I only had a pussycat...Oh well,if i present the part,manny will never know what is in my panties...
It SURE is my hair ! I have the receipt and the box it came in !
I cannot recall a time in my life when I was ever "macho". When I was six and played with male friends, sometimes we would playact 'families' - you know....husband, wife, son, daughter - I always wanted to play the wife. In my teenage years, I was far too shy to even think of any "macho" activities or attitudes. I grew up being very critical of the male/female double-standards that seemed to be everywhere in the 70s and 80s, when for example, all the daughters in a family had a curfew, but the sons did not. The daughters had to have a chaperone, but the sons didn't. Women always being excluded when the MEN wanted to talk about MEN stuff. It made me sick, even although I sometimes went along with it. Perhaps I'm sidelining a bit here, but for me the old 'double-standard' always seemed to go hand-in-hand with machismo.
For me, I hated it....in movies as well as in real life. While growing up, I always preferred movies where there was a heroine, as opposed to a hero (and still do to this day, even more so). I love action movies - but I much prefer ones where it's the woman who kicks a$$. All the macho $hitheads got the living crap beaten out of them by a so-called 'weak' woman. My own mannerisms and personality are softer, less aggressive - I cry at funerals, and I cry at sad moments in movies. Heck, I even cry at HAPPY moments in movies! So, even although I grew up in a time where: men weren't supposed to cry; where, if you wore pink you were "obviously gay"; where homophobia abounded - I never ever embraced that at all.
So, it was hardly surprising that my feminine side was anxious to be shown, and although I think I suppressed it in the early years, my desire to dress in very feminine things is really hardly any surprise to me.
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I worked in a senior management team for a while that was all male... nightmare! No collaboration... it was all about agression and an obsession with winning the case. It was the most destructive environment I have ever worked in. It is portrayed in films as glamorous... cigar smoking execs, etc... the winner is the alpha male.
In my experience, this alpha male is stupid, has limited social skills, an inability to grasp complex concepts, has no understanding of the role of women other than as secretaries or wives, but does well because he has very good bullying skills... and the archetypal male pack animal will look to this 'leader'...
I do not fit this schema... I am not macho... I am who I am... I used to be confused as to why women were more attracted to these idiots than to rational thinkers like me...
Since I have got more into my female side... I think I understand more...
But I still resent the macho...
Kaz xx
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I've always been the macho man. I was a jock in highschool, I worked on construction, I was in the army, and I've done all sorts of other macho things. Mostly it was an act, but I can still slip into the ultra-macho role almost without thinking about it. People still see me as Mr-Macho, at least to some degree. I can get along comfortably with a bunch of alpha males, even though I usually prefer the company of women.
On the other hand, I think of myself as a woman in a man's body (when I bother to think about it at all). I don't reject the macho image at all. I am drawn to feminine things because I love them, not because I hate something else.
As mentioned before I used to be kind of macho and sometimes my wife likes me to be a macho. It happens quite often that she takes over responsibilities (macholike) also towards strangers and then i feel funny but also good. I think for me nowadays i am no macho and i don't want to be one.
I am more of a CROSSDREAMER than anything else.
You don't have to be Macho to be Masculine. You can be a varsity athlete, a student leader, a decorated combat veteran, a success in commerce, a loving father figure, and a lot of other things which are regarded as "masculine," and still be interested in visual art, poetry, aesthetics, drama and the search for your inner feelings.
H.L. Mencken famously observed that, "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public," and those words ought to be listed as a Disclaimer, sort of like the Surgeon General's warning on cigarette packs, before television shows like Man Cave.
As most regular posters on the forum know, I like Men very much. However, the mere thought of having sex with someone who looks and acts like Tony Siragusa literally makes me nauseous. Ugh!
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