"masculinity crisis" in the UK

[NWO Sentryman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22530184

The question of a "crisis in masculnity" is interesting. From my perspective, I think it's largely a backlash against the Emo/Linkin Park/Nirvana mindset that pervaded the 90s/00s.

 

[Architect]

Bunch of big girls blouses..... [/Scottish]

 

[Polaris]

The country that gave the world Hugh Grant is just addressing this now?

 

[Architect]

Don't look at me, pal, he's English.

 

[The Don]

Diane Abbott likes the spotlight and will say almost anything to stay in it.

 

[Darat]

I'd have said this is a "yesterday's problem" that the current generations of young males have already dealt with. (In broad generalities.)

 

[Craig B]

Diane Abbott likes the spotlight and will say almost anything to stay in it.

Too true! Masculinity crisis, femininity crisis ... See http://www.christian.org.uk/news/diane-abbott-pornified-society-is-harming-girls/ At least it keeps her from having to talk about things like wars and social inequality that might force her to take a political stance.

 

[Brown]

I've just learned there is a MAN in England named "Hilary" and that's his first name.

 

[The Don]

A bloke named Shirley Crabtree used to be a very popular wrestler:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Crabtree

 

[DC]

Don't look at me, pal, he's English.

said the guy in the skirt.

 

[Architect]

Oh aye, Mr. Lederhosen??

 

[DC]

Oh aye, Mr. Lederhosen??

indeed Hosen not Röckchen

 

[jiggeryqua]

I've just learned there is a MAN in England named "Hilary" and that's his first name.

He's in Madrid.

 

[Ziggurat]

I've just learned there is a MAN in England named "Hilary" and that's his first name.

There's a man named Hilary in the US too. He used to be secretary of state.

 

[Puppycow]

A bloke named Shirley Crabtree used to be a very popular wrestler:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Crabtree

Surely you jest!

 

[Ziggurat]

Surely you jest!

 

[Puppycow]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22530184

The question of a "crisis in masculnity" is interesting. From my perspective, I think it's largely a backlash against the Emo/Linkin Park/Nirvana mindset that pervaded the 90s/00s.

OK, I read that and it just confused me. Sounds like psychobabble.

 

[arthwollipot]

I didn't get it. Are people being too masculine or not masculine enough?

 

[spin0]

Hard to tell. Perhaps it will get sorted out after the ongoing crisis.

 

[The Don]

I didn't get it. Are people being too masculine or not masculine enough?

I think the problem was that Diane Abbott hadn't been on the telly saying anything attention grabbing for a while and so she said something without thinking it through properly.

I think it comes down to what "real men" do. Real Men^TM exhibit all the positive aspects of masculinity but none of the negative aspects (even though they are two sides of the same coin). Interestingly enough it seems that there have never been any Real Men^TM

today's generation is "caught between the 'stiff-upper lip' approach of previous generations and today's cultural tornado of male cosmetics, white collar industry, and modernised workplaces".

So in the past men weren't Real Men^TM because we were emotionally closed wife beaters and now we're not Real Men^TM because we're porn-addled metrosexuals