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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-23-07 09:46 AM
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19. A Couple Of Things About That, Ma'am
Edited on Sun Sep-23-07 09:48 AM by The Magistrate
Males exist in a state of competition with one another, and in competition there are necessarily winners and losers, and the losers greatly outnumber the winners. The marker of this competion among males is the sense of masculinity, of being a real man, of being more of a man than other males. Because most are not really 'more of a man' than their fellows, there will always be a sense of hollowness, of pretence, in the sense of self among many males, a feeling of trying very hard without much tangible reward. Persons laboring under such feelings will feel great resentment at someone who seems not be making the same efforts they are making, and fear they are failing in. To such males, an open 'femme' homosexual male is someone who has opted out of the game entirely, and is getting by without any of the angst over 'being a man' that weighs so heavily on them, and it makes them angry, in the same way that a person who works two jobs to support a family often angrily resents someone who gets a welfare check.
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