| o_O.Q said: well hang on now if we can conclude that a man who is insecure about his masculinity may shun certain media then the inverse must also be possible, meaning that it must be possible that there are men who are unjustifiably secure in their masculinity to the point where it impacts on their decisions and i can think of actual real world examples of this such as a friend who doesn't see the point in lifting weights |
Yeah, because colorful and cheery games like Splatoon are typically associated with manly men. Give me a break.
You're not understanding the concept of insecurity at all. A grown man who is comfortable with who he is, enough to play a game that is often associated with either children or women, is not insecure. A grown man that shuns this type of media because it's associated with people other than masculine men, is insecure. There is a quote by C.S. Lewis that goes as follows:
"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
So, if a man is comfortable playing colorful and child-like games, he is not insecure in his masculinity because he doesn't give a shit. But if he sees other games as merely brown and gray and not worthy of his time, he isn't insecure, he's just extremely ignorant and doesn't have the knowledge to properly assess such games.
