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markpkessinger

(8,945 posts)
15. I've been giving a good deal of thought to this . . .
Wed Jun 17, 2026, 12:02 PM
Yesterday

. . . and it seems to me that so much of what the MAGAverse/Manosphere regard as traditionally "masculine" virtues amount to what earlier generations would have readily recognized as nothing more than foolish, adolescent bluster.

I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in a tiny borough in rural Pennsylvania (pop. 750, give or take), where my family had lived for nearly 200 years. My father was a WWII US Navy veteran. His two brothers served in the same conflict in the Army. They embodied a masculinity that was fairly widely embraced in their generation. That masculinity eschewed open displays of aggression and abhorred bullies and guys who would run their mouths about how tough they were. Above all, it valued quiet confidence, competence, and self-mastery/self control!

These MAGA morons are a LONG way from that ideal!

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