evolution of stupidity…or is that, manpidity?
i’m not going to link the article that i read this in, because then i’d be propagating the stupidity. i admit that the significance of the traffic i won’t be generating for them isn’t that great, but it makes me feel better.
it was an article about men feeling the need to apparently add masculinity to the english language, because being nannies or nuses and wearing sandals evidently brings out our ‘castration anxieties’. the article comes with a nice glossary of, uhh, mannisms i suppose you could call them, most of which gave me a good laugh. but i ask you, honest to god, what in the holy shit is this crap?
Man bling: Jewelry that isn’t overly glitzy or feminine. In Ocean’s Twelve, Brad Pitt wore a silver pendant and cuff links from Tiffany’s.
so now i’m apparently being emasculated because i wear cuff links. so much so that people felt the need to not only invent a ridiculous term to counteract that but to also include within this piece of vernacular another wholly idiotic term, bling. sometimes i weep for the future of our language.