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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
17 hrs ago

. . . 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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Trump thows up on himself every day. sop 20 hrs ago #1
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Rome with no class mdbl 18 hrs ago #10
Caesarean perhaps? OC375 17 hrs ago #18
We are not at Idiocracy era, way early LiberalArkie 18 hrs ago #11
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The Republican party hates women, that's all there is to it Walleye 19 hrs ago #7
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Senate candidate Talarico defined it pretty well recently... bsiebs 19 hrs ago #9
weak and incompetent.....Hell popsdenver 18 hrs ago #13
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I've been giving a good deal of thought to this . . . markpkessinger 17 hrs ago #15
Excellent analysis. Martin68 17 hrs ago #16
The real question, though MoseShrute 17 hrs ago #17
Nor the constant hypocrisy about 'traditional male values'. OldBaldy1701E 17 hrs ago #19
Trump's White House: liberalla 17 hrs ago #20
"can't hide" - haha - I read that as "emphatically demonstrates" relayerbob 17 hrs ago #21
He didn't just look frail. He fell asleep! ShazzieB 17 hrs ago #22
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