It will not make you less of a man. If you have a lbp avatar you will not be a man at all!
..says the man with the porcupine 
I'm just kidding. in my opinion it would only make those "less of a man" as you put it, who criticize you for having a lbp Avatar 
Go for it!
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’







