7 Reasons Why Millennial Men Are Reinventing Masculinity

I define Masculinity as the stand a man makes FOR HIMSELF.

AKA, I am going to do what I want to do, what is best for me, if you don’t like it, go f~~~ yourself. It really has ZERO to do with what he does or how he behaves or how he dresses…The simple fact that he was/is man enough to do whatever it is HE wants to do is the truly Masculine part.

ghost wrote:

He doesn’t need to. Ferrari stopped making them back in 2007. The dual clutch transmissions are much better.

Well, I guess only time will tell! Once SHTF and EMPs get detonated across the globe that Ferrari will only get him so far. Judging by how flashy it is I doubt it’ll be very far. I wonder if he has a 72 hour bag in that sweet ride.

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One thing I would say is that the more gender neutral millennial man may not purely be a result of environment, he may also be the result of female hormones in city water from the contraceptive pill and hormone mimicking or suppressing chemicals from plastic and cleaning fluids and such in the environment. These are uncharted waters.

I have no doubt that pollution also has a great deal to do with it. If it’s changing fish, it’s impacting us too.

The only question is whether or not this is by design, recklessness, or (far more likely), both.

I would make the argue that masculinity is defined as doing what is necessary…for survival, procreation, and sanity. What is thought of femininity typically doesn’t accomplish much of anything, other than perhaps child birth.

Through out almost all of time, masculine behavior was hunting, fishing, providing shelter for himself and family. Defending his family from outside threats. Then he also did things to impress a mate for the purpose of procreation. The side effect of dealing with a mate was a lose of sanity, this masculinity involved getting away from the mate in order to restore sanity.

What was feminine usually accomplished very little, and certainly could not survive without masculinity.

I would further argue that modern society has caused masculinity to flip on it’s end. There is very little need or desire for a man to seek activities for survival and protection for himself and family. Government provides for that, and does not even allow him to take responsibility for that in so many cases. That has then effected the need to procreate. What’s the point of procreation if you are not allowed to have a family? That leaves masculinity for the sake of restoring sanity. However, women have invaded the traditional spaces for men to restore sanity, diluting their purpose. Men are forced to seek other activities.

You could argue that other activities, such as yoga or gaming, are feminine since they accomplish nothing, but that isn’t exactly true. They are needed in order to maintain sanity. Notice that men engage in these activities, they usually do them with a level of dedication that few women chose to go to. Women who do yoga or gaming tend to only do it to the point where they can claim it or fake it. They want to give the impression of accomplishment. That’s not enough for men because impressions of accomplishment does nothing to restore sanity.

F~~~ed into mediocrity
women have all theses plans. Women are not builders and have not built anything
when plan goes wrong, it is not their fault it is the man

Modern man:

Ed Sheeren.
Stupid beards.
Pointy shoes.
Skinny lattes.
Listening to women.

I prefer the more traditional approach:

Motörhead/ classic rock/ hard dance
Stubble.
Good solid dealer boots.
Beer.
F~~~ ’em and chuck ’em.

Cap285 wrote:

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These in particular stuck out:

2. They Are Non-Conformist.

What? Most of these wusses are hard core liberal and we no how ‘non-conformist’ they are….

3. They Don’t Want To Compete With One Another.

What!? The generation that got participation trophies doesn’t want to compete!? Well I’ll be!

Written by………….a woman. Color me shocked.

You realize that this woman probably interviewed guys about this, and just dished out the answer she got, not thinking for a second what the man was talking about. I don’t know what she thought she would accomplish, but if the millennials are using these advises, we will see a lot more of them here in the future.

Old Sage wrote:

Did someone say Turtles?..

#TURTLES4LIFE

Young Sage!! Hahah

Skeptisk wrote:

1. They Value Self Awareness.

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2. They Are Non-Conformist.

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3. They Don’t Want To Compete With One Another.

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4. They Value Authenticity.

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5. The Want To Be Vulnerable.

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6. They Act According To Their Values.

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7. They Are Motivated To Grow.

All 7 points may be potentially wonderful values/principles/actions to cultivate but all will go in the garbage can once that millennial (or man from any other era) is yoked to a female and chained down on the plantation.

From the article:

Today, less than a third of men aged 18 to 29 report feeling “completely masculine” compared with 65% of baby boomers.

I can understand this in 3 ways:
1- they feel something is wrong in their masculinity.
2 – they do not review themselves in a traditional masculinity definition.
3 – they concluded that a traditional male is destined to the slaughterhouse, thus avoid it.

The masculinity modeled to us by older generations—which held that men shouldn’t express emotion, be sensitive, or show vulnerability—is fading.

And why the f~~~ is that? Because there are no male models in our screwed up society? Because the only acceptable viewpoint is feminine?

Let MEN be vulnerable. That should result in their happiness. Let MEN express their feelings, preferably to women, as we know how well this would work.
Let men be more sensitive, and certainly they will not be abused by it…

This is NOT NEW. This was the SAME CRAP I grew up with. How the “new man” would be sensitive and considerate, instead of the outdated pragmatic and objective masculinity.

All it took was 40 years to realize how harmful this is.

Because it only exposes you to the master emotional manipulators that women are!

You do not want to be sensitive when you need to make hard choices!

You dont want to be emotional to make the right choices.

And you do not need to express your dammed feelings to know you have them! It is YOUR BUSINESS and nobody else’s.

Influential millennial business leaders like New York Times Bestselling Author Lewis Howes are paving the way for this new model. Howes’ upcoming book, “The Mask Of Masculinity,” suggests that taking off the “masks” men traditionally wear can lead to more success, wealth, and fulfilling relationships.

That is the point of this article, isnt it? To breed good plantation slaves…

According to one international study titled “The Decline of the Manly Man,” the percentage of men who are staying home to care for children is rising

This ^^^^

There is the trap, right there. First they say “no fixed gender roles”, but then the associate taking care of children to a feminine role. They even call a man doing it as “the decline of manly man”. And obviously society is so supporting of dad’s taking care of kids that they give the children to dad in a divorce.

Go to a kindergarten and stare at the children, and we will see how gender roles are not fixed.

Outdated masculinity says men shouldn’t show any sign of weakness

… or women will eat you alive. That is a good advise.

But modern masculinity embraces vulnerability as an expression of courage.

Doesnt this “courage” thing belonged to the “outdated masculinity”? This is circular thinking. They are using traditional male characteristics to shame men into a position of vulnerability to exploitation.

Rodriguez says you can get in touch with your values by folding pieces of paper in half with the following sections: needs and wants; strengths and weaknesses; and dreams and reality. Place the paper somewhere visible so you’ll continuously be reminded of it.

F~~~!

If you need a paper for remembering your values it is because they are not your values!.
You do not “forget” to be truthful.
You forget your fake values, imposed by the media and society, as you sometimes relapse to being a “natural man”…

Let me tell something about this and other articles of this kind: nobody can teach you what you are. Its easy, you are it already.

You do not need rules saying you are adaptable and curious. That is the nature of masculinity.

You do not need to be told that you have feelings, because you so obviously do.

What you need is to get proper advises how to protect yourself as a man in this hostile man hating society.