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America is a backward country anything that is,???? (I don't even know how to explain it), is called gay. Like if a man dresses really well, people call it gay.
Yep, Americans can be morons this way.
A conservative gray suit, a pale pink shirt, a maroon tie, and black dress shoes and belt, if all of quality brands, says "good taste" to me.
In some parts of this country, having more than an average amount of education would also be looked down on. You know: "college boy."
I don't even think it's that. Metrosexual, I think, means trendy...and too invested in being trendy. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Dressing in a manner that is not going to go out of style is just common sense.
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America is a backward country anything that is,???? (I don't even know how to explain it), is called gay. Like if a man dresses really well, people call it gay.
anything that a man does maybe slightly different is labeled as that.
Meanwhile women can do, look, say anything and no one blinks an eye...but if a man does anything, it is labeled
It is sickening that Americans do this.
It is the year 2012, and they still do this.
It is pathetic. As late as the 60s you could get beaten up for having long hair. What a bunch of intolerant, crog-magnum doofuses.
Mentioning cigarettes there are several nations where smoking is still heavily male. I believe in Armenia it's very lopsided and looking it up it's very lopsided in China.
But in other countries it's essentially the same or, in the somewhat unique case of Norway and Sweden, women may smoke a bit more than men. Interestingly in nations with more "gender empowerment", according to that, women often smoke more in comparison to men. Trinidad and Tobago looks like an exception as women smoke much less than men, but the nation's Gender-Empowerment looks similar to the US or UK.
Clothing and hairstyle is an obvious gender difference by cultures. In some cultures silky things are seen as feminine, in others they're neutral or masculine. In some it's typical for men to wear their hair long, but in others that's seen as feminine. Purple I think is seen as a "feminine" color in some places, but in others it was just regal or imperial.
Then there are some "unusual" ones, at least for Americans. Doing paintings of naked men has often been seen as more a masculine thing than a feminine one. Among Christians that was a modesty/moral issue, but some cultures I think really felt women couldn't appreciate naked men in the right way. In Japan arranging flowers I believe was once more masculine than feminine. For several decades scientific societies insisted botany was "masculine" because women couldn't study herbs and flowers the way men could. For a long time the French, I believe, discouraged women from wine-tasting. (That one might have a certain logic, a woman could be pregnant, except that tasting isn't precisely the same as drinking) And I think there were American Indian tribes that discouraged women from playing the flute because it was an instrument of seduction. Now the flute is seen as feminine to many people.
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Mentioning cigarettes there are several nations where smoking is still heavily male. I believe in Armenia it's very lopsided and looking it up it's very lopsided in China.
But in other countries it's essentially the same or, in the somewhat unique case of Norway and Sweden, women may smoke a bit more than men. Interestingly in nations with more "gender empowerment", according to that, women often smoke more in comparison to men. Trinidad and Tobago looks like an exception as women smoke much less than men, but the nation's Gender-Empowerment looks similar to the US or UK.
Clothing and hairstyle is an obvious gender difference by cultures. In some cultures silky things are seen as feminine, in others they're neutral or masculine. In some it's typical for men to wear their hair long, but in others that's seen as feminine. Purple I think is seen as a "feminine" color in some places, but in others it was just regal or imperial.
Then there are some "unusual" ones, at least for Americans. Doing paintings of naked men has often been seen as more a masculine thing than a feminine one. Among Christians that was a modesty/moral issue, but some cultures I think really felt women couldn't appreciate naked men in the right way. In Japan arranging flowers I believe was once more masculine than feminine. For several decades scientific societies insisted botany was "masculine" because women couldn't study herbs and flowers the way men could. For a long time the French, I believe, discouraged women from wine-tasting. (That one might have a certain logic, a woman could be pregnant, except that tasting isn't precisely the same as drinking) And I think there were American Indian tribes that discouraged women from playing the flute because it was an instrument of seduction. Now the flute is seen as feminine to many people.
The lesson we can learn from this is what is 'masculine' and 'feminine' is totally reliant on the cultural norms and social conventions of the time and place and seldom reflects any innate biological tendencies.
The lesson we can learn from this is what is 'masculine' and 'feminine' is totally reliant on the cultural norms and social conventions of the time and place and seldom reflects any innate biological tendencies.
This is one of the best posts I have read in a long time.
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In many countries, men are expected to know how to cook. It's a manly thing to be a good cook.
Here...not so much.
Yet, kind of unfairly, while it was women doing most of the cooking those most celebrated for their cooking ability, the chefs of the great restaurants, were and still mostly are male.
This is one of the best posts I have read in a long time.
Couldn't rep him again, so I'll have to say that Trimac makes a very incisive observation.
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