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Re: Blue collar guys, masculinity, etc.
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
(2) Are blue collar guys actually more "masculine-seeming" on average than guys who come from a higher income background, or am I misperceiving the situation? |
Theory has it that culture defines men as active and women as passive. Masculinity is associated with action, and so the physical action of using your muscles and working up a sweat is more masculine than sitting at a desk making electronic numbers move around.
Also, in this country (and I imagine it's the same everywhere) the lower, working classes have a culture of masculinity. Working class, blue collar guys are generally more aggressive, more homophobic and more competitive with each other. This is possibly because liberal values of tolerance and gender liberation don't filter down to the less educated working classes.
| quote: | | (3) Is there something about growing up in a sheltered suburban environment that "planes down" a guy's personality and ensures that he'll always look out of place at a construction site? |
You can always tell a genuine working class man by how broad his shoulders are. I grew up in a mining village and everyone has broad, working class fathers. I go to university and everyone has accountants and teachers for fathers, narrow shouldered, thin-wristed people. There's a difference between a physique sculpted by hard labour and one carefully regulated in a gym, and there's no faking it. That extends to behaviour too. The only way you can look at home on a construction site is if you actually work on a construction site.
| quote: | | (4) Is modern culture tending toward a feminization of men? |
I don't know if I'd call it feminisation, but it's certainly rendering useless all the attributes of masculinity. All the aggression and competition programmed in to make good hunters is pissing away in an officle cubicle with people telling it that it's just a social construction. The irony. I think feminine attributes of communication are more at home in the information age.
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