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That being said, women's colleges FTW.
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these guys without an identity feel threatened, and try to find a way to put women in their place. they don't know how to interpret masculinity in a healthy way, so they watch UFC and punch each other, dismiss people and art as "gay" or "pussy", and can't be friends with their girlfriends because how can they have common interests with an OTHER when they are a MAN?
women aren't emasculating them, they didn't have any strength or self worth to begin with, and perceive the changing world as a threat to them. and then they rank girls at yale, who they think probably got in because of affirmative action, and are stuck-up bitches anyway.
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In slasher movies (in the 70's and 80's) these guys are the killers. Unable to find their place in society, they're never "manly," they're sexual deviants (they're Norman Bates in a mask with a chainsaw). And at the end of the film they're castrated by someone who is physically female but inhabits a male gender role (she's got her own problems, but that's another post).
But now, movies like the 'Saw' series and 'Hostel' the killers are generally physically incapable somehow, but mentally justify what they're doing, AND are often presented to the audience as being some what sympathetic or relatable. Along with that the one doing the castrating is no longer female. It's another man. An ablebodied, better looking, more sexually successful man.
Rob Zombie's remake of 'Halloween' is a good example of this flip. In 1978's version we get about 5-10 minutes of Micheal's backstory, just enough to make the rest of the movie kind of make sense. Rob Zombie's remake IS Micheal's backstory. The remake also brings up some REALLY interesting class issues and Micheal went from being middle class suburban, to 'white trash' but again, that's another post.
And I just have to get the word out the ORIGINAL Texas Chainsaw Massacre II, awesome movie. And it's been long enough where the main character now looks like a total hipster in bedazzled jean shorts, bob with blunt bangs, and cowboy boots.
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And if the incoming freshman women of Yale are bright, ambitious, and independent...men must be drooling, hateful cretins, so they can know who they are.
Lacking their own identity and pathetically insecure about it, and fearing the negative attention of other men, they latch onto "at least I'm not a woman, they get fucked by men" as a shield.
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Or something like that.
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My guess: not very
Now no matter what this is awful, and extremely hurtful, I just find guy's opinions about girls need for attractiveness vs. the own really interesting
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@bluebears: of course, I have mostly guy friends and while a lot of them are not unattractive my favorite is that often the most judgmental guys are judging girls that are wayyyy out of their league.
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Talk about your mixed messages.
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