I tried answering this post before but my computer fucked up.....
Pseudo or hyper the bottom line is a recognition of some kind of deviation from the norm.
No....Its not the same.....hyper is a term that is used to describe excessive...and I will say that feminist are using this term because they want to curb maleness and tone it down......why so that they can have power and control their way through means that are more favorable to them
......in other words they cannot physically pound for pound be equal to a man in that venue.....so they dismiss the venue as "hyper" or that is too much man.....
example....the marine recruits who can t do 3 pullups cause they don t possess the upper body physical strength that a man does......
so it would be to their advantage to simply invalidate upper body strength......
it is not the same as pseudo......psuedo means fake....
And feminist aren't the only ones questioning where the line is drawn...the fact that you have your own term for the issue illustrates that. So getting into some discussion about who's agenda is it is is pointless because no one ever gets to the actual topic regardless of who brought it up.
Its not pointless cause feminists are trying to eliminate physical prowess....because in that venue they lose......so they try to equate male aggression and violence (even mild) with a negative term.....ie Hypermasculinity...
the agenda for feminist to gain power is for them to belittle or put down things that are advantageous to men and usually that is physical aggression and things in that regard....
And women don't get a pass for it. Women who exhibit aggressive behavior are ostracized by both men and women. Butch lesbians are a perfect example.
However, the way in which women bully doesn t get scrutinized as much because at the end of the day usually no ones jaw is getting broken......
but females bully by excluding other girls from the group...they make it so that all the other girls don t associate with the victim and keep her from having friends....why? cause the bully may be jealous or just doesn t like her for some reason.......
it only gets headlines when the victim does something crazy as a result like suicide or something like that....which is extremely rare.....
To your first point: Maturity doesn't curb it. By and large you see the continuation of that behavior going into adulthood.
I disagree......when boys are in 4th - 6th grade they usually begin to act out on their sexual urges...in the form of inappropriately touching and groping their female classmates......this activity continues until about the 7th grade when those same boys advance to jr high school.....
there they begin to see the older 8th and 9th graders not interacting with their female classmates in that way.....and they begin to follow suit....so that maturity leads to an end of that type of behavior......
Jonathan Martin exposed that as well as other athletes. You said you think some of the things in the video are necessary for certain environments that males find themselves.. and what environment would that be? The locker room in gym class? The school yard? A frat house? The cubicle in the work place? A night club? All of these environments are the places were you can find men exhibiting extreme aggressive behavior and mentality.
And where you can find groups of men perpetuating those beliefs that expressing emotion or sensitivity is soft and should be avoided. These aren't life and death situations.
This is needed to be taugh at a young age......WHAT YOU ARE MISSING geech is that usually young boys are told to stop crying in the HEAT OF THE MOMENT when in public......then told "stop crying....man up." or something to that extent.....
This is very needed cause what a boy must understand is that in this society a man is never going to be allowed to cry in the heat of the moment when the problem needs to be fixed or solved....nor should he cause a man must at all times be able to make moves to get shit done when needed.....
Not cry........UNLESS IN PRIVATE......
geech.....what these boys must understand is that it is okay to cry in PRIVATE....in private you can do those types of things just like in private you take a shit......its by yourself and no one needs to or wants to know the details of your mess or stink.....but it is accepted and NATURAL......and....there is noone there to tell you to "man up".......
The subtitle of the video is an exploration of American masculinity. thats why I said we live in a FIRST WORLD INDUSTRIALIZED NATION that has the SAFEST environments one can be in (comparatively speaking) yet you see some dudes walking around like theyre a cross between Deebo and Adibisi. This is WHY it needs to be questioned and WHY we as men need to figure what the hell is going on rather than point fingers about who's agenda it is.
2. No one said wrestling and rough play is hyper masculine..the video trailer doesn't make that connection. The issue is the various ways respect is linked to violence and the subtle and not to subtle push on boys to suppress their emotions or sensitivities.
You can t separate industrialized nations with nations that are not from this conversation because there is a similarity shared by all of these nations....they are male....and there is an element of biology that goes into manhood and masculinity and shared by all....simply saying that just because their is a community with police who have guns and animal rescue which keeps bobcats and other wild animals away from your loved ones.....doesn t mean that biology knows different.....
in other words...your body doesn t know that there is a grocery store on every corner so when you don t eat for a while it thinks its starving and when you do eat again it conserves fat thinking that it may not get its next meal again......
3. replace revolutions from tyranny, wars against corrupt governments....etc. with work place/school shootings, inner city street killings and spree killings and thats what we're dealing with in america. And all of those are committed by men almost solely.
Stop bypassing topics that you don t want to deal with....deal with the point I raised....Malcolm X said...What were revolutions fought over....land....the landless vs the land full....how was it fought....bloodshed.....
THat is necessary at times cause there are folks out there that want to take you for what you have at all levels from the bully and your lunch money.....to the Klan hanging folks on trees for trying to vote.....
sometimes there is only one way to solve the issue....
In other words...there are levels in dealing with issues....and sometimes you have to talk and reason....and sometime your gun talks and reasons....
Why couldn't the others recognize that he no longer wanted to play like that or that they crossed a line and just stop fucking with him??
I wish they did leave him alone geech....but what a man knows is that at the end of the day no matter how much he tries.....
A MAN CAN ONLY CONTROL HIS OWN ACTIONS........
Therefore before Martin leaves the NFL....there is one more option left ie breaking incognitos face......
not a gun....cause the NFL is not worth freedom.....
but you cannot control the other person's actions...and yes he should have tried to reason with the people above him...but they didn t want to hear it....so before he walks away from what he worked hard to get......
He needs to either ignore it.....which is what he should have probably done....
He could have also used his fist.....which is a last resort.....but one that is not hyper masculine in anyway....its how the world was and will always be shaped...