We haven’t had any riddles here for a while, so let’s liven things up with a riddle. Fellow Hispanists, please abstain from answering because it’s too easy for you.
My students were presenting their research projects today, and the issue of machismo (Latin American sexism) kept coming up. So let’s see how well you understand the real macho manhood.
Which activity should a man engage in at least once in his life to prove that he is a real macho?
The answer is under the fold.
A real macho is the man who has had sex with another man at least once. Homosociality ⇒homoeroticism ⇒homosexuality. Not always of course, but there is a lot of fantasy life leading in that direction among gender-segregated societies.
The machos insist that the only reason why a real macho needs to have sex with another man at least once is to know for sure sure sure that he is not into it.
Yeah, right.
Reader xykademiqz gave the closest response, so I guess she is the real macho around here.
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Sex with a prostitute? An anthropologist told me several years ago that in some Central American countries, a boy’s visiting a prostitute with his father is a rite of passage.
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Sex with a donkey?
Hey, no one every accused me of raising the tone in this type of discussion…
I’m not a hispanicist but I think I know the answer but will abstain (pun unintended) for the time being.
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You teach Spanish so you’ve totally got to abstain. 🙂
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Actually I don’t teach Spanish. I’m fairly fluent (active skills are rusty through disuse) but my teaching goes in different directions. I wouldn’t mind trying in the abstract but getting skills backwould be a long haul.
As much as I love the language and Iberian (and some Latin) culture my interests are now swaying strongly toward SW Europe esp the Black Sea and Aegean (from where I write these words looking at the coast of Turkey).
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Ha! Then why was I so sure you taught Spanish?
I wish the end of the academic year just ended already because it’s making me loopy.
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Visit a bull fight?
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Come on, people, you can do it! Let’s keep going in the direction of sex.
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[cough] prostate examination [cough]
[turns my head] [cough]
🙂
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Well, you could call it that, I guess. 🙂
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So what’s the answer? I have no idea, but from your hint I would say raping another man?
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The answer has been posted under the fold!!!
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I think that I am a hispanist and I swear I did not have a clue before reading the replies.
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It seems like the end of the academic year is getting to you, too. 🙂
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Clearly there are major flaws in my education.
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Reader xykademiqz gave the closest response, so I guess she is the real macho around here.
Yey! I am macho!
This calls for a video clip I remember from my childhood:
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That’s what I thought though the rationalizations were different.
Penetrating a woman = everyday, any guy can do that
Penetrating a man = penetrating a penetrator, a feat!
Needless to say, the macho guy can only be the pitcher, never the catcher
I seem to recall that being “the boy” in such interactions is not necessarily regarded as “gay”. And that’s a pattern found all around the mediterranean basin.
The film director Passolini was killed IIRC by a working class male prostitute who was mortally offended that the director wanted him to be “the girl”….
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Exactly. To every statement of the comment. 🙂
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Oh c’mon, I gave a huge hint … 🙂
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