Reine, I award you queen of the internet. Only you would be able to find something like this I was blathering about. So far the consensus is yes, what I am observing is real, and no, it is not anti LBGT. Although the article Reine links does have a masculinity in crisis effect as given A reason for what the current trend for white males is today. Another, the socioeconomic effect is not something I had thought of. It is interesting in its hypothesis at least.
I have often lately seen one of these lumbersexuals (label by the article) lumbering around, as in their gait, or driving around and thought to myself, this months winner of "I am not caitlyn Jenner award goes to..." I am hopeful at least that the thought that this current trend is not an anti LBGT trend. Still though, I am saddened somewhat by seeing it. As for having a truck, sure, to have one sometimes would be nice. There are times I have borrowed one for a day. I personally do not need one enough to spend the money to get one. I do actually admire those who do hard labor work. I see nothing belittling of it. It is still our most needed labor force when all is said and done. The amount of guys I see driving these big ol pick ups these days, no, there is not that much hard labor out there for them to be needing one. I sometimes am wondering if this notion that a "real man" should be doing some sort of hard labor work, and the labor force of it is now becoming glutted. Where I work is a smaller rural community, and it seems pretty much every man who lives there has some sort of labor type work. Which to me is odd as there is so much poverty in the area which I work. So not much money for people that need labor work, besides the fact that so many in that area seem to know how to DIY just about anything anyway.
