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Just personally disgusting how toughness is now bought these days.

I feel as though American masculinity is so consumer based now. The right hair cut, the right clothes, the right hobbies, the right truck, the right stupid accessories for that stupid truck

For a lack of a better word my mind goes to the name “Weak” when I see these assholes. Weak and dependent on their big oil fetish.

They buy their toughness and masculinity instead of earning it through challenge, personal growth, and respect.

I’m sick of the urban assault vehicle crew. Often the normal thing men do where I live is buy a truck, buy some racks and accessories, but some stupid cooler and strut around like Rambo peacocks.

It’s a terrible image to show kids. I hate it

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[–] bonkerfield 1 points 1 year ago

It drives me crazy too so I'm gonna rant back at you. I do a lot of long distance boondock camping ebike trips. After a few days out I feel tough as nails. Under the sun, covered in bike grease, fixing my own mechanical and electrical problems, riding through the rain, carrying days worth of food and water on a lightweight machine, and just doing what you gotta do to keep it rolling.

And then I see somebody cruise by in their luxury jacked up shiny truck, they slam on the accelerator as they go past to show off how fast the fossils they bought at the gas station can make them go. The thing that gets under my skin the most is that they are so dumb that I know they actually think they're tough guys just because they feel big in their little toys. That's the part that irks me. If there was any justice in this world and they could just understand how pathetic they actually are that would help a lot.