It’s incredible how innocent people are. All single-sex, heavily masculinized environments do this kind of thing.
“Our enemies” do it in a much more… erm, direct way. I could post some videos that would dispel the mythology that this is somehow uniquely American but I won’t because they are very hard-core.
I find it kind of cute (if also somewhat bizarre) that somebody could have lived to adulthood and failed to know that the reason why people go into same-sex professions is to be homoerotic together.
(The NSFW link is under the fold).
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This is SO true! I did engineering school in India – which is 95% male dominated space in a very prudish culture. There was a LOT of homoeroticism in the hostels (dorms), particularly during the hazing rituals where it got quite graphic. I never made this connection of people actually wanting to inhabit these spaces. I didn’t know much psychology back then but now I do and this makes perfect sense. This also explains why many men (like me) feel so uncomfortable in such male-dominated spaces. I never could get along with my engineering school peers for this reason.
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Is this just men, or does this happen in some girly way among… teachers and nurses?
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Female homoeroticism is oriented towards family-building. The TV series Sex and the City is a great example of that. The characters are incapable of building a family with men because they do it with each other. Family-type relationships is the great object of female desire.
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Huh. There is a large box of worms lurking there, involving culture, family formation, single-sex institutions and professions, the respective desires of men and women, and how we all live with each other constructively or destructively. But Probably going into that is a topic for a book not a combox 😉
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See? We can intellectualize even pornography. 🙂
This phenomenon can be observed in many areas. What do (many) men do to relax with their buddies? They watch scantily dressed men jump, run, and engage in close physical contact. Do women get together to watch female sports? That would be very unusual. It’s not bad or good. It’s just different.
Or take video games. I like video games. There are tons of games for women where you help a mommy take care of babies and build houses for them. Or for younger women, where you help female characters improve themselves to find a boyfriend.
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Hah. My husband and I both used to play Civ4. It was a running joke that we played completely different games with it: he was playing world conquest, and I was playing build the biggest civilization.
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I loved Civ4!! I tried to avoid wars as much as possible and build, build, build. My husband always joked that I was trying to turn the game into what it didn’t want to be.
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I dunno, though. Given that what seems to turn men on most, in terms of attraction, is a nice WHR and long hair followed by *women paying attention to them*… There are some possibly homoerotic things going on among women too. Like, maybe they don’t have beer parties to watch women’s mud-wrestling. But they do fork over a lot of cash to go to trashy-female-musician-of-the-week concerts. I don’t think it’s primarily men who paid to see Beyonce strut around in knee boots and lingerie. What were women getting out of that, if not a heaping helping of homoeroticism?
(pondering…)
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I’m thinking about this.
Might there be a class issue here? I wondered if I’d go to such a concert, and I wouldn’t, even if I liked the music. And it’s precisely because the female star inevitably poses as a truck stop prostitute.
I’ve been to large concerts, and they were all with male artists. This wasn’t conscious. I simply never saw myself as the target audience for the wriggling female.
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It relates to the whole women-signaling-to-each-other thing, maybe? I’ve never met a guy who was into two-inch acrylic fingernails (though I have heard a guy wonder aloud about how toilet hygeine works with those), bleach-fried hair, duck lips, or pixie cuts. That’s all women looking ‘sexy’ for other women. Which is super weird to me, but I’m not normal so (shrugs) it gets filed in the mysteries-of-the-universe bin. IIRC women are also the primary audience for burlesque and possibly bellydance. There’s probably a class element to it, but I don’t think it’s the whole picture. Burlesque, for instance, is higher-class homoeroticism if I’m reading it right. Doesn’t keep the Beyonce super-hooker look from being… aspirational? But I don’t reckon that’s *all* it is.
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I don’t understand any of this, genuinely. Please, explain.
What is going on and where? Are these homosexual or heterosexual soldiers doing a prank as a swagger exercise?
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These are hetero soldiers. Americans are very PC, so they do the ritual using a fake penis. In less civilized countries, a young recruit would be used instead.
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What I find striking is that people are attributing this phenomenon specifically to American soldiers and use it as a sign of American degeneracy. It’s quite extraordinary that they seem to imagine that soldiers in other armies in the world don’t do exactly this and much much worse. The spirit of anti-Americanism is so strong that it’s really disturbing.
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“People” is very amorphous here. Which people? The left? The right? The rich? The poor? This guy specifically is right-wing.
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The Left has been anti-American for at least a century. But now the Right has joined them in this lovely pastime. That’s a new development. And it gets worse every day. Now they are hating on the US army, of all things. It used to be a leftie-only pastime. But now it’s spread to the Right.
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@Anonymous “This guy specifically is right-wing.”
What is it that makes him right-wing? Or do you think that all soldiers are right-wing?
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Dom Lucre, the poster, is right-wing. He led a chapter of Blexit. Elon Musk interacts with him. If you Google “dom lucre right wing” you’ll see the mainstream media refer to him that way.
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Yes, it sounds like a current right-wing fad without even looking in detail at the author. Tucker Carlson has been doing something like this where he posts effeminate American soldiers alongside the Russian military ads. It’s curious that he chose not to post a million videos of Russian soldiers raping each other with and without brooms. I stumbled on those by accident and I will never be able to unsee that horror.
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