First, my comment in response to a commenter who ridiculed hypermasculinity and described it in a way that made it look like a parody:
“Hypermasculine” or hyper “cartoon caricature of masculine”?
To which I responded:
I live in the hood (barrio). Normative masculinity here does look like a parody.
Sometimes I get upset with myself for being such a wuss and try to ultra-masculinize myself.
It ends up feeling like such a worst joke of a fake parody of manhood that I am sure everyone must be laughing at me behind my back. Interestingly, no one laughs at me, and a lot of super-masculine White men who never acknowledge me start giving me these respectful nods. Sometimes they even give me “shout-outs” with the nods: Yelling “Hello there!” from their cars.
And that’s the only time these Latinas around here look interested in me. Most of the rest of the time, they seem like they want nothing to do with me at all. The Black women around here are mostly ghetto, and women like that never like me. And the White women around here are working class blue collar redneck Whites, and they never like me either. They all want cavemen, and I’m not a Neandertal.
I get on best of all with White women of a certain type, especially if they’ve gone to university or have a university degree. They want a sophisticated man, not a thug. In fact, a lot of them think thuggish cavemen are gross.
I can also get along well with Asian women, who, bizarrely enough, treat me like I am hypermasculine and even a bit frightening. Asian women treat me like I’m Paul Bunyan.
My conclusion is that not only is masculinity a parody of itself, but I am also starting to think that most folks’ behavior is a parody of itself. And if you want to be successful, act like a parody of whatever behavior you are mimicking. Which is not only absolutely ridiculous but also philosophically interesting.
Here is another man responding to me. I really liked his intelligent response.
Among people who grow up around stressful environments (poor people, war zones, ghetto, hood) the men tend to prefer larger asses and thicker women, and the women prefer more muscles and masculinity. It’s a survival mechanism- I read about this years ago but can’t remember exactly where.
It’s not genetic per se – it’s like a gene turns on when you are subjected to a hard life for long enough. For example, in the Middle Ages, bustier women were considered attractive and skinny ones unattractive.
It’s mostly people who are well off that prefer skinny women and effeminate men. Even if you look at East Europe where there is more poverty than in Western Europe – there men and women are behave a little more like the ghetto stereotype.
As a result I have the opposite issue. Most middle class White women act scared of me or treat me badly. East European, Black, and Hispanic etc. women seem attracted to me. Also for some reason natural blond Nordic-type women who seem to prefer more masculine men. With Asians it’s a toss up – depends if the Asian prefers masculine men, which a lot of them do, but a lot of them don’t.
Also interesting – ugly or plain women act like they are too good for me and highly attractive women act interested in me. I feel if I went to Europe (like Germany, Poland or Russia) I would be pretty successful dating.
I am guessing I am too masculine for the typical overweight easy life middle class White American woman. However, wealth and status are important to most women, and my being dirt poor is a problem even though my poverty derives from being discriminated against, dealing with repeated crime, and corrupt cops etc. rather than some deficiency in myself.
You can be masculine without being a dickhead – just a professor can be more “in the center” and still be a “nice guy”.
Anyway, women don’t respect masculinity I think, they respect integrity. In other words, lying is a big no-no with them. Probably cowardice would be also – but there would have to be a situation for that to come up.
LOL I dunno man. They say they hate liars but they themselves lie their fool heads off all day long. And they love to hook with extremely dishonest bad boys who cheat on them all the time.
Yep, cowardice would not be a good thing, but I have never run into that personally, mostly because I’m not a wimp or a coward. On the contrary, I’m so aggressive that I am full-blown psycho if provoked. I’ll slit someone’s throat if it comes down to it. The definition of a wimp is a man who won’t fight back, and by that definition, no way in Hell am I a wimp.
But why are these guys stuck with “bad girls”? It’s because they have no integrity! And now the bad girls are hypocritically demanding integrity from these “losers in life”(sarcasm).