The Daddy Complex

If You Have To Ask If You’re Masculine Enough, The Answer Is “No”

I keep hearing chatter about the decline of masculinity, especially with the rising numbers of stay-at-home and work-at-home dads. You think a role defines what type of man you are? Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit.

  • Mikhail Baryshnikov is a ballet dancer and fucking masculine as hell.
  • Gordon Ramsay is a chef and could tear your fucking head off with his left hand while making a soufflé with the other.
  • Hugh Jackman can do a whimsical Broadway musical and play the most bad-ass mutant in comic book history.

And being masculine doesn’t mean hunting and gathering. It means being a trustworthy gentleman who does what’s right. (Okay. If you’ve got muscles and a mustache, too, all the better.)

It doesn’t matter what you do. What matters is who your are. You define yourself. I’ve said before that the most unmanly thing a guy can do is worry about whether or not he’s masculine.

Stop whining, man the fuck up and get on with the ballet.

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    I keep hearing chatter about the decline of masculinity, especially with the rising numbers of stay-at-home and...
  9. saluxshop said: Well said!
  10. electradaddy said: People have been worrying about “the loss of masculinity” since the beginning of the 20th century. Talk about a way to waste 100 years. I sincerely hope we don’t waste another century worrying about this issue.
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  12. mom2adelae said: Love. This.
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    Hugh Jackman is my manly role model!
  14. backyardworkouts reblogged this from thedapperdad and added:
    Men are men because they are men. They don’t waste time or energy thinking...manly,...
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    Learn it. Live it. Love it.
  18. to-my-self reblogged this from thedaddycomplex and added:
    agree wholeheartedly.
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