'The difference between science and just fucking around is writing it down'
that myth buster guy
LittleBananaJoe
As someone who is mostly a man and not an alien spy
The manliest guys I know are all respectful and kind people, and to them the manliest trait is to be confident but still be humble
written_and_recited
As a man I can confirm that nothing would stop me from feeling even more like a man with a strong woman by the side.
leko
yEAH gRaVE rObBeR, ANSWER THE QUESTION
ChaoticWatcher
Most archeology before the modern day (I want to say maybe the 60s) was just straight up grave robbing
FIRE_BOMB
The only woman I was ever with that made me feel like a man was actually a very strong, independent woman.
I know the meme, but seriously, she used to be a field engineer and build/run tests on bridges.
Neither of us really cared about gender dynamics. I was a trucker. She was stay at home, but had a lot of construction experience.
I made her feel like a beautiful, well appreciated woman every day. And she made me feel like a man. No woman made me feel that way. And i realized it wasn't because i was "superior" in any which way. She just genuinely relished watching me be a man. Even the small things, like not be able to find the ketchup even thought it was right in front of me.
She had handyman and trades expereince. I did AC and electrical. Between thw two of us we probably could have built a house. But I never tried to make her feel any less feminine. I still gave her flowers, and listened to her problems and was there for her when she cried for seemingly no reason, or had (by her own admition) irrational mood swings. She dressed up and put on makeup for me.
And she made me feel like a man by encouraging, and inspiring me to do naturally masculine things. She enjoyed watching me do dumb, goofy shit. Play like i was dying when i had the cold. She would watch me lift weights, and train martial arts. She let me be weak around her so that i could be strong for her... if that makes sense.
What I'm saying is, she never belittled me for being better at cooking, or art. I never belittled her for being better as framing a door, or hanging dry wall, or doing math.
We were there for eachother and supported eachother, and that naturally brought out the healthier sides of our genders.
It was a beautiful thing while it lasted, and it completely reshaped my concept of masculinity and femininity.
Too often I would get in relationships with women that wanted me to get mad (by their own admition) and be ultra dominant all the time. It's toxic, and draining for both genders to be held to such an unrealistic ideal of set behaviours.
chesusjrist
What I say: You have to let a man feel like a man.
What I mean: Let me princess carry you through the the front door, damn it!
Sarge
For those who wish to know about the archeology one, it's grave robbing if you litteraly dig up graveyards (Ancient Egypt is a good example) and or if there are people from that culture still around and consider it desecration (Look up about Native American archeology).
danilopetrovic
Nothing makes me feel more like a man then just, yehknow, being me?
flapjack
I don't want to feel like a man, I want to feel like a raccoon that figured out a phone and eats pasta.
ImADeity
The last one is a call out post to the British museum
elliotwarren
I like how the "kind empathetic" people are the quickest to put someone down and try to humiliate them for daringn to have feelings.
MizutamariVT
The whole feel like a man thing I have always taken as have mutual respect for each other and don’t disparage him to make yourself feel better if your happiness comes from hurting those who care about you. You don’t deserve happiness
kylejohns
I would like to say a man sometimes likes to feel pretty so get him roses
the_THR
Interesting point, Ms. Misandry. You seem like someone with a very unbiased point lmao
marnmv
It is grave-robbing if the place is still considered a burial site by the locals
DanielPereira-eynt
When I want to feel like a man, it's that I want to carry everything (grocery, stuff, trip stuff, chairs, whatever) all in one trip. That's pretty much it
BetaJackMaxis
I didn't see the word "like" in the first post and just went with it
Like "A man likes to feel a man" and I just accepted that as a normal post on Tumblr
ghostofanant
to the Archeology vs. Graverobbing question, I say: ¿por qué no los dos?
(meme reference: tr. “why not both?”)
IONATVS
The “a man needs to feel like a man” thing makes me think of how you let kids win at board games.
Playing trivial pursuit like “ya, I really can’t remember the name of the princess in shrek”.
