Dear WaPo, What the fuck? Manly Men??? Really?

[Stinky The Clown]

Seems the WaPo doesn't consider liberal men "macho". Or gay men. Or smart men. Or intellectual men. In fact, it isn't just not macho. It considers them not manly. Or even masculine.

NFL players, rappers, conservatives among those supporting same-sex marriage


50 Cent, above in April, is among the rappers supporting marriage rights for gays.

Macho (mä´cho): a man who is aggressively proud of his masculinity (see also: football players, gunslingers, rappers).

Heard the latest among the straight, tough-guy set?

Two NFL players have filed a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of gay marriage. Paul Wolfowitz, the neocon defense hawk from the George W. Bush administration, signed on to another. In the testosterone-roiled world of hip-hop, macho men from Jay-Z to 50 Cent had the back of crooner Frank Ocean after he posted an open letter about his sexuality.

In the top sports leagues and conservative circles, the announcements of support for gay rights have been increasing — and increasingly bold. More are coming as the Supreme Court prepares next week to fully examine same-sex marriage for the first time. The two NFL players — Baltimore Raven Brendon Ayanbadejo and Minnesota Viking Chris Kluwe — have long been on the team of those supporting gay rights and filed a brief with the high court urging the justices to upend California’s 2008 voter-approved measure restricting marriage to one man and one woman. Locally, sports broadcaster Brett Haber this year joined with the group Athlete Ally, started two years ago by former University of Maryland wrestler Hudson Taylor, to take a stand against homophobia in sports.

The move among straight guys in athletics and other ultra-manly arenas is reflective of a national trend that shows the majority of Americans support marriage rights for same-sex couples. But it is also indicative of the place of the “tough guy” in society, said sociologist Michael Kimmel, who directs the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

“They do the right thing even if nobody else supports them,” Kimmel said. “A tough guy also always stands up for the little guy. The tough guy isn’t a bully. The tough guy is righteous. Part of being a tough guy is standing up for the underdog — so I see it as perfectly consistent.”

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Read on, The shit keeps rolling

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/nfl-players-rappers-conservatives-among-those-supporting-same-sex-marriage/2013/03/19/e5dfa22a-9003-11e2-9abd-e4c5c9dc5e90_story.html?hpid=z4

Wow. Call me Estrogena The Clown.


Yanno, it seems to me that anyone who has to trumpet their sexuality has a far higher likelihood of being one who feels the need to compensate for some shortage.

[Purveyor]

1. "compensate for some shortage. " I have a big fucking dick...does that count for anything? eom

[seabeyond]

2. "anyone who has to trumpet their sexuality..." ya. isnt that the truth

[Recursion]

3. My "USMC" tattoos have "USMC" tattoos

As far as macho goes I'll put myself up against anybody, and I was for marriage equality about 20 years ago.

[Shivering Jemmy]

4. The article is conventional and boring

The author is appealing to stereotypes becuase it makes writing easier. When a writer lacks talent, that's what they do.

At least it's about an encouraging phenomenon: professional sports and hip-hop have long been bastions of homophobia. Let's hope that's ending.

[Luminous Animal]

5. I live in the Castro district in San Francisco...

there are plenty of "Manly Men" who live here who have been fighting for their rights. There are also plenty of "little guy" straight guys who have been by there side without having to ASSERT their sexuality.

Call my husband Estrogen The Clown.

Buy, ya know, I'm going to give them a bit of a pass. It reminds me of the 1960s-1970s "white guilt" and the white youth doing their awkward best to prove that they were "down with the brothers."