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Originally Posted by Amaras
Dude, lighten up.
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I can't. When you see so much wrong all around you, you can't.
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Originally Posted by Amaras
I'm not concerned with a fixed identity, but rather how it evolves.
I've got a fixed time on this earth, the end date of which I do not know.
I do not say everything is alright, because a permanent condition of
humanity is suffering. And all suffering is derived from desire (yes, I am
cribbing from Buddah). No, I'm not buddhist. I think they are right though.
I am built (outwardly) masculine. You might be suprised at how macho,
alpha male, I appear.
But I'm not gay, or straight. I'm Amaras. Take it or leave it.
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Well , I've gotta go.
I'll tune in tomorrow.[/QUOTE]
Well, at least you're the lone sane voice here, with whom one can discuss.
I like Buddha too, and everything he says.
I would really want to know, why to some men in the West, manhood has stopped mattering. Or is it a general trend. My guess would be that eversince they destroyed and heterosexualized men's spaces in the west, and broke men from men, men have become so isolated from each other that manhood (and I'm not talking about outer appearances) has ceased to matter for men. In any case, people in the west lead so isolated, individualistic lives that social identities may not matter so much. However, the power and need for manhood HAS shifted to heterosexuality, and men are today forced to be heterosexual (just like in the past they had to perform with the woman). AND, the stigma of lack of manhood has shifted from male transgenderism/ femininity to 'homosexuality' and men avoid any intimacy with men.
I would say, to be so involved with one's own self, that you don't care what's happening in the society around things that should concern you as a man, is not a very commendable attitude.
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Originally Posted by Amaras
In four sentences or less, can you tell me what you are trying to accomplish, sir (using a french keyboard where I cannot find the question mark).
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I'll try.
1. I want to expose the persecution of men that the society has hidden underneath false facades and myths, but nevertheless that I can see, A persecution that I hold the western society responsible for.
2. I want to expose those who persecute men and their mispropaganda.
3. Most of all I want to create awareness amongst men themselves -- not those who have a vested interests in status quo, but the vast majority of men who remain silent because they don't really have a space to speak.