I blogged about Tom of Finland back in 2014 in a post titled, "Finland issues stamps honoring an artist whose 'sleek sado-masochistic drawings with abundant amounts of beefy male nudity' portrayed 'a sensual life force and being proud of oneself'" ("The first quote in this post title is the way the NYT described the work of Touko Laaksonen, AKA Tom of Finland, and the second quote is from someone in Finland who chose the particular images for the stamps, who added: 'There is never too much [sensual life force and being proud of oneself] in this northern country'")(the only image at my post is of one of the stamps issued by Finland).
Balint gets pretty excited about her ideas in that clip, and that made me want to look up what she studied in college. Wikipedia says: history and women's studies (at Smith). I wonder how many college courses cover Tom of Finland.
I see there's a Tom of Finland Foundation, which has a mission "to promote Tom’s work along with other erotic art so that it receives the academic attention it deserves." It notes: "Tom’s work had a defining impact on the way Gay men throughout the world were perceived and more importantly, how they perceived themselves. Tom’s work has, therefore, had a ripple effect throughout Gay and Straight culture, influencing lifestyle, political tolerance, design, fashion and art." And, if Balint is right, the American military.
ADDED: Balint is trying to use homophobia against those who are or might be homophobic. She calls their homoeroticism "weird" — "weird, like, intense homoerotic feelings" — before denying that "homoeroticism is the weird part," and she may feel safe from accusations that she is homophobic because she herself identifies as gay. "The weird part," she says, "is that they pretend" that their interest in male bodies is not homoerotic.
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Be warned. The Left is trying to make men who exercise, set goals, and adopt masculine roles “feel gay” as a way to embarrass them and reduce their societal influence. This persons view isn’t a serious critique, it is a political attack.
Leftist women are harem girls.
They just can't be honest about who they are and what they want.
These women voted for Bill Clinton who is a known rapist. Joe Biden was a known rapist.
The woman they venerate as a leader is Kamala Harris. Harris's only skill was sucking Willie Brown's ****.
That is what democrat women want. This is who they are. They have warped twisted views about masculinity because they don't want to live in a world with good men. They don't want to be good wives.
They want harem life and that means a world run by men who lord over harems. That selects for the type of men Democrats vote for. Just look at the men Democrats vote for.
It would be more surprising if a women's studies major from Smith didn't come to this conclusion. It's a faith-based argument.
I have no problem at all with homosexual men and women but I hate TQ+ activists for several reasons. There is no contradiction in that. Expanding homosexualtiy to "LGBTQ community" is a rhetorical trick.
To Becca, a banana is NEVER just a banana.
Among her excited utterances was, “Pete Hegseth is the embodiment of that.” It is unclear exactly to what “that” refers. But it feels like a homophonic slur, something that the false rainbow people like to use. For some reason calling straight men homos gives lefties the jollies.
It’s a strange phenomenon. Is homosexuality something to take “pride” in or something to mock? Which is it? That’s why our side prefers the “live and let live” ideal. It offers a more consistently affable atmosphere.
So Balint is not actually a psychiatrist and has never actually interviewed Hegseth?
There are two messages in that. One is aimed at straight men, and it mostly misses because they aren’t the audience she understands. The real message is to gay men: we’ll accept you, but only if you vote the way we want you to. Step out of line and suddenly you “look like” the thing we spent a decade telling everyone wasn’t an insult.
What's with capitalizing Gay and Straight? They're pretty firmly adjectives. Capitalizing black gets by on their probably not knowing any better.
Homophonic? Thanks DEI autocorrect by Apple.
So when we use “gay” to mean retarded we’re homophobes but when they use “homoerotic” as a slur they are allies of da gay. Got it.
Pete Hegseth has never hidden his goals for military readiness wrt to fitness and health. Men have a unique ability to be strong and exert strength far beyond what women can do, as a general rule. Every soldier needs to be their strongest to survive and they need to depend on each other for survival. He wants them to go into battle, win, and come home. It’s not rocket science. She is just a political hack who cares more about the appearance of any military unit versus its readiness and ability to survive.
Why is her picture the henry cavil version of pete hegseth? I only know it is hegseth because she screwed up the crusader cross tattoo
(1) Getting tested for low 'T' and then perhaps supplementing your body with doses of additional 'T' is not like cutting off your breasts or penis. It is not like taking doses of the opposite gender hormones- for the rest of your life. It is not changing your gender. In fact, it is NOTHING like what we generally know as 'gender affirming care'.
(2) I don't know why Democrats have this idea that the 'hiring' process for our military should be similar to the admittance process at their favorite university. One has the goal of producing young people who learn how to protest your use of an air conditioner. The other has the goal of breaking things and killing people in the defense of the country.
I prefer men with normally charged doses of 'T' doing that dirty work. I don't care about the 'T' levels of our local weekend protestors wearing their recently purchased Hamas gear.
And I'm tired of our politicians not understanding why we have a military, what their hard purpose is, and what kind of man or woman it takes to get that hard work done.
The Dems think their problem is messaging.
Remember that Gary Larson cartoon where a pilot flies over a deserted island and there's castaway on the beach who has written "HELF" in the sand? And the pilot says into his radio. "Wait! Wait! Cancel that...I guess it says "helf."?
That's a messaging problem.
What the Dems have written in the sand is, "If you can read this you're a gay Nazi! Fuck You! Now land and be my lover and stay here with me forever, and get what you have coming to you, you stupid asshole! AHHHHHH!!! AAAHHHHHH!!!"
That's more than a messaging problem.
…oh my, Bob…
…oh my, rhhardin…
She lives in a bubble created by an old hippie farting in a bathtub.
Bob Boyd-- right-o
"And please - write me a check!"
I would add.
@ Peachy
I think they're about done saying please.
Nice work Bob!
Actually, Becca, we DO want our military looking like Tom of Finland instead of Tim (Walz) of Mini-sota, whom your side posed as your Beta-erotic ideal of a manly man in the last election. And Pete of DoW appears to be getting exactly the kind of military results (Maduro/Venzuela, Iran) we voted for.
When we trade Minnesota to Canada for Alberta, let's include Vermont in the deal too.
You go Bob! Althouse will never delete you!!
Oh dear.... that poor girl is just all tangled up, isn't she? Gay is straight and straight is gay and homo-eroticism is everywhere you look.
The TQ+ crowd is to LGB, the same way that the DSA is to the Democratic Party. Hitchhikers of convenience, playing an advantage.
Read again what Breezy wrote. [Hegseth] “wants them to go into battle, win, and come home.” Especially during the Biden administration those last four words don’t seem to have been much of a consideration for the generals.
@Kirk Parker, I’d give them the whole of New England but ask for Saskatchewan too.
These candyass namby pambies confuse gender fluids with the gay-straight spectrum. While there is plenty of overlap, they are two entirely different kinks.
It seems to me, popular mainstream social media types are pushing the celebration of gender fluidity except at the extreme ends of masculinity and femininity.
My pronouns are dude, bro, motherfucker and asshole.
Hegseth's dating/relationships/marriage track record is pretty definitively hetero. With the - frankly excessive - number of women involved it's hard to see them all as "beards". I wonder if the whole testing for testosterone thing is either A) something minor that really got out of hand...there are a few medical conditions that can cause this, or B) a way to screen out anyone trying to sneak in as "trans" and taking hormone blockers.
If you want bad guys to fear the US military, projecting the image that they are selected for high testosterone levels is not a bad idea. Inclusiveness, now that was the bad idea. For combat forces that is.
Not hating men because they are men does not equal homoeroticism. It is closer to being less bias than having a bias for or against.
Achilles wrote "Just look at the men Democrats vote for."
For example, Tim Walz, a paragon of masculinity. Dems focus-grouped Walz into the VP slot and only awaited Kamala's OK.
Walz is cool because he helped train his personal assassin and used him - and then totally got away with it due to our corrupt press.
Homophonic? That means you talk like Liberace.
rhhardin wrote: "What's with capitalizing Gay and Straight? "
How dare you criticize Their Majuscule! Off with your head!!
Just more mind reading by a Leftist.
She claims the military and promotion within the ranks is no longer merit-based, as shown by the elimination of DEI in the military (I'm paraphrasing). It seems to me that it certainly is merit-based now, it's just that the bases for merit has shifted from the ability to navigate HR rules and DEI to actual military competence. That is anathema to our Leftist friends.
Wiki-pedia exposed.
A new episode with Jillian Michaels. Interesting.
The left aee obsessed with using the gay community for their emotional blackmail and lies.
**Kassaar said...Expanding homosexualtiy to "LGBTQ community" is a rhetorical trick.**
It's a hijacking. The Ls and Gs fought street battles to have their rights respected. They got arrested, they got beat up. The Ts and everything after is a different group of people trying to free-ride of their sacrifices.
Everything after the B is doing something fundamentally different and letting them in was the biggest mistake LGBs ever made.
**rhhardin said...What's with capitalizing Gay and Straight?**
One day, a couple years ago, the woke community decided capitalizing a word is how you show respect. It started with Blacks. They had to be dragged into Whites, but in the end decided fighting it was a distraction. It was inevitable that they would expend into other interest groups.
If Odysseus had just given his sailors testosterone injections, it wouldn’t have taken him 10 years to get home. ;^)
Hegseth’s promoting of testosterone for troops is the latest manifestation of the rightwing movement’s aesthetic.I wish we would quit worrying about low-testosterone and start worrying a little bit more about low-IQ.
Achilles mews: "Leftist women are harem girls."
Odysseus, Achilles, and the crisis in modern masculinity.
One confirmation test for her hare-brained theory is that you brush your teeth with Tom’s of Finland… and don’t spit but swallow.
🚨The average US gas price officially rises back above $4.00 per gallon as the Iran War returns and the “Memorandum of Understanding” collapses.
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2079147910000726060?s=20
Is low T why we are losing to Iran?
“.I wish we would quit worrying about low-testosterone and start worrying a little bit more about low-IQ.”
Do you see, Rich? This is what so many have been saying — Rich is always trying to make every post about himself.
During my entire career in the Army, we were burdened by social experimentation by the left. I was present when the first women entered the service academies. Anyone who thinks these efforts have been a raging success is mistaken.
I wish I too could read minds like the Left does. They are always so sure of what someone else is thinking. Or at least what some people are thinking. An actual terrorist's motives are unknown but a conservative's thoughts are clear as day even if they haven't said or done anything to indicate what is being attributed to them. Uncanny and impressive.
Her framing of the issue is very homophobic.
"The average US gas price officially rises back above $4.00 per gallon"
Some high tax states are throwing off the average. I paid less than $3 a gallon last week. I don't think it's gone up much, if any, since then.
I don’t believe I’ve ever come across a person more insecure about their masculinity than Hegseth. Ever.
During the 17-day drive toward Saint-Lô in Normandy, the Allies suffered roughly 40,000 casualties to advance about seven miles. Many of those casualties were inflicted by teenage conscripts fighting for Hitler. War has never cared about youth, good looks, or photo ops. If we ever find ourselves in a shooting war with Iran, the battlefield won't be grading uniforms, haircuts, or jawlines. Bullets are the ultimate equal-opportunity employer. Handsome soldiers, homely soldiers, Ivy League graduates, and high school dropouts all become casualties the same way when strategy fails. So perhaps we could retire the "pretty soldier" aesthetic and return to the old-fashioned metrics: competence, training, discipline, logistics, and leadership. History has always been far more impressed by winning than by looking good on television.
“The left aee obsessed with using the gay community for their emotional blackmail and lies.”
And every other community they purport to champion.
"So perhaps we could retire the "pretty soldier" aesthetic and return to the old-fashioned metrics: competence, training, discipline, logistics, and leadership. History has always been far more impressed by winning than by looking good on television."
Did you actually mean this unironically? Because it seems to cut against just about everything you post here.
It’s not the low IQ, it’s the low T.
Just recently I watched the UK military have a march in the cities... 90% were fat blobs... so I understand Hegseth's push for fitness. Go look a the USMC during WW2 and on... Go look at the Airborne in WW2 and on. Fitness matters on the battlefield in just so many ways.
This homo shit is just the left's way of trying to stop them from having a fit military that can accomplish there mission. Just bullshit.
I think it's interesting that the left seems to recognize "homoeroticism," a sexually idealized view of gay men, but can't seem to muster up a single sexually ideal gay man as a spokesperson for its platform. Pete Buttigieg is as good as it gets. Hell, *I've* known sexier gay men than that, and I'm a white straight conservative suburban woman.
The other thing about "homoeroticism" is that it strongly implies The Closet, yet they *also* can't muster up a sexually ideal "straight" (quotes to imply possibly closeted) man. Hollywood manscaped artificially sensitive critters with tender lips, high cheekbones, and great hair are all they've come up with.
How do they know so much about "homoeroticism"?
Make a “homoerotic” image of Pete Hegseth, double-down and call him the homophobe.
The Left has no theory of mind for the Right.
It’s all bogeymen, all the time.
@Jamie: Did you see 'Generation Kill' on HBO. Great series. The Sergeant went around measuring mustaches, drove everyone crazy.
“Mr. Secretary, we are running low on interceptors but our sperm count is high! Ready for battle sir!”
Pete von Halfewitz the great American theoretician of war.
“I don’t believe I’ve ever come across a person more insecure about their masculinity than Hegseth. Ever.”
Best unintentionally funny comment I’ve ever come across. Ever.
(I love the second ever. I thought we left it behind in grade school. But everything old is new again
Maybe I missed something. When was Hegseth talking about the physical appearance and attractiveness of troops, rather than about their fighting spirit and ability?
Balint is herself a lesbian and mocking markedly masculine and feminine behavior as secretly gay has been common among some homosexuals for a long time now.
I wonder what the heck is wrong with Vermont. It's like aliens took over the state and the native population has been zombified into passivity.
Homosexuals transition near viability. So do gender simulants. Homophobia is transphobic is homophobic the hate or fear that divergence from normal sex-correlated attributes (e.g. sexual orientation) has no redeeming value to society or humanity. #HateLovesAbortion
Mike (MJ Wolf) said:
It’s a strange phenomenon. Is homosexuality something to take “pride” in or something to mock? Which is it?
Easy answer: If a republican/conservative is gay, it's to be mocked. If a leftist/democrat is gay, it is to be celebrated. QED
Back when Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was being turned into Come on In, the web comic Terminal Lance, drawn by Jewish Basque USMC combat vet Max Uriarte, had a series called “It’s Already Gay.” Each strip pointed out some longstanding military tradition that maps pretty well onto longstanding gay culture. Like perfectionist clothing and grooming standards, rigorous fitness, literal grabass in communal showers, etc.
So it’s a chicken/egg question. Does latent homoeroticism achieve full release in military culture, or is homoeroticism just an extreme version of admiring and emulating the traits needed for military success?
Like the Tootsie Roll Pop question, the world may never know.
CC, JSM
Meade - lol.
Admiral Bill McRaven once gave a commencement speech at the University of Texas, often referred to as the "make your bed" speech.
One of the tales in his speech was about one of the tasks performed when undertaking the tests to become a Navy Seal, which I will quote here:
"Over a few weeks of difficult training, my SEAL class which started with 150 men was down to just 42. There were now six boat crews of seven men each. I was in the boat with the tall guys, but the best boat crew we had was made up with little guys, the munchkin crew, we called them. No one was over five foot five.
The munchkin boat crew had one American Indian, one African American, one Polish American, one Greek American, one Italian American, and two tough kids from the Midwest. They out paddled outran and out swam all the other boat crews.
The big men in the other boat crews would always make good natured fun of the tiny little flippers the munchkins put on their tiny little feet prior to every swim, but somehow these little guys from every corner of the nation in the world always had the last laugh swimming faster than everyone and reaching the shore long before the rest of us.
SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education, not your social status. If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not by the size of their flippers."
Link: https://www.rev.com/transcripts/admiral-william-mcraven-make-your-bed-commencement-speech-transcript
It's an interesting tale because it helps dispel the idea that the tallest are necessarily the ones who will perform the best in the boat activity.I think the notion that testosterone levels are going to be the biggest factor in how soldiers perform in the military is also a dangerous notion. Not to say that physical fitness isn't important, but there is so much to it -- you have to have many more skills than being physically fit.
Phobias are the conception of religions that adopt Diversity (i.e. color or class judgments and bigotry) dogma. It's why feminism and masculinism both advocate for women under RAAT. Why trans spectrum labors under irrational Pride. Why National Socialists selected Jews for equivocal and inclusive treatment. Why abortionists take comfort in conflating human life with a technical term-of-art to deny lives deemed unworthy, a "burden" of state, State.
Historically speaking men prefer to be around other men who are fit and in shape, not necessarily beefed out muscular and cut. That doesn't make you gay. No one wants to hang around a bunch of fat slobs.
Gay: good. Trans: better. Homoerotic: bad. A lot of those homoerotics are straights cospplaying as gay. They need to be ruthlessly exposed and shamed. A real gay man doesn't mind flab and low-T. He doesn't have to compensate with tats and push ups.
A bit more seriously: you need fitness even in the postmodern military. Technology always seems to translate into more gadgets with batteries to carry around. Risk-averse generals wrap troops in Kevlar which may kill them via heatstroke and heart attacks unless they have a high level of fitness. Hegseth seems to be emphasizing functional fitness tests: ruck marches, sandbag throws, etc, that try to replicate battlefield tasks in a measurable, easily logisticable way. He doesn’t want fat cattle grazing around his bases, but he is simultaneously getting away from the tyranny of BMI and the types of fitness tests that advantage skinny pretty long distance runners. If you can haul combat gear to a time standard but you still have a dadbod, you’re okay with him.
Uniformity and toy-soldier stuff: yes, it is important. The Geneva Convention requires us to have uniforms. Gear should be worn in a uniform manner so that you can find your dying buddy’s first aid kit, or your dead buddy’s ammo, on him in the dark. Washing and pressing uniforms kill lice and other nasties that plague (sometimes literally) densely packed military installations. Haircuts and clean shaves make gas masks and helmets fit and work properly. Teaching recruits to take pride in their uniforms is the first step in teaching them to take care of the equipment their lives depend on. Parade ground drill is an efficient way of moving people around in non combat environments, and it teaches you how valuable and difficult coordinating big groups can be (counter column or wheel, anyone?).
All of this stuff can be taken to extremes. I hate units that effectively made troops buy a second set of gear for layout inspections, for example. Completely defeats the purpose. And rehearsing drill movements beyond the point where people stop walking into each other is time better spent on your core specialty, whether that’s bayonet fighting or baking.
Hegseth seems to be going for the functional stuff, not the toy soldier stuff. CC, JSM
There must be some relationship between homophobic and homoerotic that is clear to Democrat lesbians, but invisible to the rest of us. Right? And is she saying that “warriors” must be big and buff? Audie Murphy comes to mind. What was he, about 6’4” and 240 lbs? LOL!
* The woman they venerate as a leader is Kamala Harris. Harris's only skill was sucking Willie Brown's [dick]. *
True. But to be fair, there are plenty of men in both parties whose character and capabilities are equally poor, if not more so, and who also got to their positions by sucking dicks. I don't think Hegseth is one of them.
Have you ever come across Pete Hegseth? Ever?
Or have you simply confused the influence of your media diet for a supernatural ability to read the mind of a distant stranger?
** Just recently I watched the UK military have a march in the cities... 90% were fat blobs... **
I may have seen the same clip. Fat blobs who were out of step and obviously the fruit of diversity quotas. A soccer team of high school freshmen could easily have taken them in hand-to-hand combat.
"A bit more seriously: you need fitness even in the postmodern military"
Not just the military.
If you came across an automobile accident and gasoline was leaking, how many unconscious people could you carry to safety and what would be the weight limit?
*** One day, a couple years ago, the woke community decided capitalizing a word is how you show respect. It started with Blacks. They had to be dragged into Whites, but in the end decided fighting it was a distraction. ***
No they didn't, not all of them anyway. Plenty of media outlets still use style manuals that capitalize Black, Latinx, Native, etc., but quite deliberately and maliciously do not allow the same treatment of White.
Does anyone really venerate Kamala Harris as a leader? They may have tried, but it was pretty much hopeless.
You need to post more articles, A. Coming back to this one again and again is doing strange things to me.
I follow the correct rule about capitalizing these adjectives. You do it randomly. That way you get to piss everybody off.
*** These candyass namby pambies confuse gender fluids with the gay-straight spectrum. While there is plenty of overlap, they are two entirely different kinks. ***
Confused kids can be excused for failing to recognize the difference. A friend of my son came out as trans after high school, at the peak of the trannie hysteria, and wore women's clothing and demanded to be called "Dandelion" for a time. Later he realized he is male but gay. He wears a mustache now, goes by his given name, and while he's still a flamboyant dresser, no one will mistake him for a trannie doing girlface cosplay. He seems much happier too. It would have been a tragedy if he had fallen into the clutches of the genital-mutilation crowd.
Natives are indigenous as a race condition. Indigenous are native by virtue of jurisdiction.
High T macho man doesn't mean you can't have a sensitive side:
"Kakistocracy said...
Althouse wrote: “I cried. I think it's a path to return to normal.”
My wife once asked me when did I feel happiest? Upon consideration, I responded when I wept. An admittedly strange answer, I explained that it was not grief, but the overwhelming surfeit of emotion that I experienced with certain triggers of emotional, perhaps sentimental, love. It was when I felt much alive.
One time while I was at work, my wife phoned me as she was at home watching An Affair to Remember (a film we had often viewed together).. She put the phone next to the TV as the scene played of Cary Grant discovering the painting of Deborah Kerr. She knew precisely how I would respond…and I did.
5/6/24, 11:51 AM"
It's really weird that they constantly try and insult conservatives by implying that they're gay, but can't see that doing so is also homophobic. If you want to reduce homophobia, you first need to stop saying that there is something wrong or deviant about being gay.
Ah a women's studies major from one of the Seven Sisters. You know if you are a proctolgist you tend to focus on a certain part of the human anatomy. All the world looks like a backside. Well if you are a women's studies major, maybe all the world looks like Finland Tom. It's simply a variant of the proctologist's paradigm.
I don’t believe I’ve ever come across a person more insecure about their masculinity than Hegseth. Ever.
I guess I'll just take your word for it, but I am curious how you discern security in masculinity among the men you meet.
"can't see that doing so is homophobic"
They. Do. Not. Care. The left does not give a flying fuck about homophobia, "Islamophobia", the "workers", health care, illegal immigrants or any of the other causes they claim to advocate. The ONLY thing they want is to acquire power.
“The ONLY thing they want is to acquire power.”
… which (1) allows them to enrich themselves through graft, and (2) amass a network of people who owe favors because he cut them on on the graft (any resemblance to the Mafia is NOT coincidental).
However, Gary, you are missing the sheer FUN of using thst power to jerk ordinary people around (C.f., COVID).
The new ethos: Gay is good, trans is better and homoeroticism is bad. The problem with homoerotiicism is that all too often it's just a mask for straightness. A lot of of those guys who do one handed push ups are actually straight. It's an uncomfortable truth, but there it is.....A real gay man, a true gay man doesn't mind a little flab and low T levels. These homoerotics should be ruthlessly exposed and shamed. It starts with the military and pretty soon they're infiltrating the Joffrey Ballet.
MadisonMan said...
I don’t believe I’ve ever come across a person more insecure about their masculinity than Hegseth. Ever.
I guess I'll just take your word for it, but I am curious how you discern security in masculinity among the men you meet.
All the guys in the sauna say he's butch.
The Democrat party views the military as an adversarial voting bloc. Hence the desire to feminize and LGBT it into a more Democrat friendly institution. As usual, their concern is more about obtaining power and less about military capability.
Nobody feels bad about being in good shape, manly, well hung, or anything else she's trying to make people feel bad about. We just don't for obvious reasons.
It's a running gag around our house. Two men on the screen, in a photo, in a movie-- some goofball NYT reader or ivy leaguer or nose ringer will reflexively burp up something about "homoerotic tension." It's an ideological obsession. Were I inclined to invoke Freud ... Forget it, I am disinclined to invoke Freud as that is more tiresome with each passing minute. Wrestling? Homoerotic tension. Scrubs? Homoerotic tension. ANYthing involving two or more men? Homoerotic tension. Of course, the fact that I find it annoying means... you guessed it... I'm homophobic... which means... I can't even finish it.
Just a wordy version of "If you have a problem with homosexuality, you must be gay".
NYT: In defense of [National] Socialism.
So, she's been think about this a lot... So she's gay and likes thinking about men having a homoerrotic engine driving their pursuits of masculinity. It sounds a bit like straight guys enjoying watching lesbians have sex with each other.
"Finland issues stamps honoring an artist whose 'sleek sado-masochistic drawings with abundant amounts of beefy male nudity' portrayed 'a sensual life force and being proud of oneself'"
Why can’t we have stamps with lesbo porn? Trump should issue some, just to win support from the women’s studies majors.
The left demand we purge the military - every branch - and re-fill with leftist weirdos.
The left demand we de-fund the police, and re-fill with obedient Walzian Soviets.
The left demand we defund and dismantle immigrations and customs - 40% of are Mexican Americans - thus proving leftists are all racists.
She uses “weird” three times. The word doesn’t resonate with me, and I don’t think it resonates with most conservatives - but I think I know who it does connect with.
“Weird” is a status insult. It only wounds people whose identity is bound up in social acceptance - people who’ve been taught that their lifestyle is who they are. For them, being called weird isn’t an adjective - it’s an eviction notice from the culture.
That’s why the Democrat promise underneath the word is: we’ll defend you from this label - as long as you stay on our side. It’s conditional acceptance dressed up as unconditional acceptance. Drift in thought or vote, and the shield drops. Ask the gay conservatives, the Black Trump voters, or the lesbians questioning gender ideology how that works out.
Plenty of conservatives live so-called alternative lives. But their lifestyle is an attribute, not the load-bearing wall of their identity - so “weird” bounces off. The insult only cuts the people the attacker has already made dependent on her approval.
Tampon Tim weird??? Seth Moulton weird?
I must add that "Let me be clear" simply means "I will now obfuscate".
I do recognize that LMBC is an Obama contribution to political discourse.
This is just the complaint about the "Male Gaze" applied to men who admire each other
The military has fitness standards for a reason.
The guy upthread who thinks just because we have rifles means nobody has to march, or dig in, or carry a wounded guy, or survive on low rations...
WTH are you babbling about?
Even in WW2 we had fitness qualifications.
Hitler Youth didn't need them because they weren't going to advance.
At first glance, I thought her name was Becca Bint. Seems appropriate.
"Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples"
- Wilhelm Reich
*I don’t believe I’ve ever come across a person more insecure about their masculinity than Hegseth. Ever.*
Got any mirrors in your house?
This is just more 4chan filtering up into the cultural gestalt. I think the current thing is to explain how being into girls is actually gay. It's quite funny in a way, until it ends up coming out of a person with some authority's mouth.
Wow is that how we do the possessive on that construction?
Pete Hegseth: A weak man's idea of a strong man.
Hard to believe this was the best candidate for the job.
“Hard to believe this was the best candidate for the job.”
I read his book. Not hard at all. You lack imagination
IEE:
An ignorant man's idea of a well-informed man.
A useless commenter's idea of a useful commenter.
A crashing bore's idea of a fascinating man.
A weasel's idea of an honest man.
I could go on, but further comparisons are particularly odious (and odorous) in this case. Also obvious.
A person for whom everything is about sex thinks that everyone else thinks the same way? No, it's just you.
I imagine she would have been at least called on her bullshit in the past, and that's what's changed in the current age.
**"Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples"- Wilhelm Reich**
The left just cannot let go of the ludicrous Freudian delusions, can they? This overlaps with their obsession with penis size among gun owners. Psychoanalytic "armchair science" hasn't been relevant to anyone except monomaniacal leftist ideologues for fifty years.
Meanwhile, the real scientists who actually collect data have found that right-wingers have more satisfying sex and plenty more of it than leftists. Moreover, gun owners have been found to possess slightly larger organs of generation than non-gun owners, although the difference is small and probably not statistically significant.
Trump supporters this week have credulously asked how it was possible for Iran to respond militarily after we "destroyed" all of their missiles. I have a feeling that a lot more people are going to be asking similar questions about oil and gasoline prices and supplies in the near future.
The US has at last figured out how to win -- testosterone shots for the troops.
Unfortunately, this is a war, not a physical fitness test. Trump's Secretary of Defense Hegseth apparently doesn't know the difference.
Tell me about a more one-sides war than this. We lost as many men just leaving Afghanistan under the last CIC and the result was the opposite of destroying their weapons and economy, but I understand your need to get everything backwards and wrong until name change day. It's a brand you're working hard to maintain.
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