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Your Machismo is really Mythology: Edition
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Your Machismo is really Mythology: Edition Greetings, minions.... both of you. I'm sure I can't have very many left at this point. Today's topic is Machismo, or the state of being macho. More specifically, it's about the serious delusional state of mind most men I meet are in. The Beast has probably mentioned once or twice that he is one of those rare men who was born without the "Spectactor Sport Gene". I've never sat through and watched an entire sporting event on television with the exception of a boxing or UFC event. The small handful of live sporting events I've attended were the result of 1) Free tickets, and 2) An attempt to expose my to events he might enjoy, although I don't. If you threatened to take away my ability to view even the rare activity I've enjoyed watching, you wouldn't get much more than a shrug out of me for your troubles. The majority of men I've met in my life, however, seem to believe that their own machismo/toughness/manliness/badassedness is directly linked to their chosen sports personality or team through some sort of cosmic tether. This post was inspired by a commercial I just watched by the way. In the commercial, one "Super Fan" flys to a friend's house, and meets his friend and his friend's wife in the driveway. The wife states that they are going antiquing. The Super Fan retorts that he is not going antiquing, while shaking his head in a way that suggests that would be an extremely unmanly thing to do. He leaps off to retrieve a dresser to leave for the woman while leaping off again with his buddy in tow by the collar. Any time I've been around a group of guys watching a sporting event, they are all ripping on each other, and making comments about how much more manly their team (and by cosmic extension.... themselves) are than the other guy's team. What's manly/macho/tough etc... about watching other people do something? I've never been able to wrap my head around it. You didn't just take that hit from a 300 pound football player..... that other guy did. You had about as much to do with it as I had to do with the last space shuttle launch. (By the way.... I had nothing to do with the last space shuttle launch.) We're also coming up with some of the most cowardly ways of killing other people around the planet, but still speak in macho terms about them. Flying a drone from 1000 miles away and firing missles at other humans from the safety of an operations bunker is so far removed from brave/manly/macho/heroic that it's a joke. I'm betting those operators still feel heroic after a kill though. I guess that's another topic though. Sticking with the sports theme is enough for now. Watching other men/women do things doesn't make you..... anything, other than an observer. Stop grunting and chest thumping when somebody you've never met does something amazing. You didn't help. There has to be something psychologically wrong with any activity that will make one man wear the name of another man across his shoulder blades. There's only one next step for any man to take from there..... You've got to get a stamp that says "Tebow Me" across your lower back. Beast Out |
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Self delusion is the only thing that keeps people "sane" . If dudes can't watch their physical superiors do things they can't and pretend that makes them awesome somehow what do they have ? Nothing . Speaking generally of course . Putting clients first by putting employees first, immediately after prioritizing fiscal responsibilities and leveraging profitability towards exceeding by empowering our employees to put clients (and themselves) first, in a diverse and respectful environment of only those that come first, first.
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