Double Standards

[Kil'jaeden]

What has been considered effeminate has varied over time a lot. How many here, for example, would consider long lacquered nails, tea ceremony, flower arrangment, rock gardening, makeup, sharing a bed(with another guy), opera, or tights and pony tails, to be dripping testosterone? And yet all those have been (or are) considered masculine(and completely not gay). I am not sure when, but at some point being as close to being a knuckle dragger as possible become the gold standard of masculinity, though I may be exaggerating. The one consistent thing I can think of is sports, those have been associated with masculinity across cultures for a really big number of years that some scholar here can fill in a number for. Sports, like hunting and killing eachother, are an opportunity to compete and show off strength, but without anyone having to die(usually). There is a consistent one for women too; looking after the home/hearth and raising children.

[X-3]

Must be because women began to take interest in those things, so men were all, "ehhhhh this isn't cool anymore". Could this be the dark secret lurking behind the ever-shifting human culture...?

[Softguitar]

Bringing this up, because...
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