Mocking Men With Femininity

[geek tragedy]

16. A few years ago there was a sketch on one of the late night comedy shows

showing fathers whose young sons were refusing to play football and baseball, choosing instead things like ballet.

The fathers tried to articulate a reason why they were dismayed, but couldn't come up with anything rational.

The tagline was something like "remember, they don't have the problem, you do."

Captured it pretty well--we men can't articulate anything rational why this kind of attack works on us, but it does. The need to be manly gets really ingrained from an early age. Everything from colors to body image (e.g. "moobs&quot are devastatingly effective means of shaming men into conformity.

Of course, there's a side debate to be had as to whether there are actual feminine traits, or whether these traits are just arbitrarily attributed to women or enculurated in them, and around in circles we go.