Acting Manly (Only guys answer)

College Life
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<p>Acting manly doesn’t mean you need to run around getting in fights and have indiscriminate sex with women or anything like that. That just makes you young and dumb, well, really dumb. Being a man means taking responsibility and acting responsibly. If you do that I can roll with you, gay straight whatever. You wanna act like a man? Then have some self respect and then maybe you’ll earn it back.</p>

<p>And secondly, while the Man Laws website is funny and has a grain of truth, it’s an advertising campaign for a beer company. A beer company that makes some crappy beer. Don’t take it too seriously.</p>

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<p>The idea that your friend would have to spend all of his time in college trying to hide who he is sad and what he wants to do would only probably drive him crazy and make him paranoid. </p>

<p>If you’re a real friend, talk to him about either going to a college where he can really be himself (and there are plenty of gay-friendly colleges) or connecting on campus with the group for gay students.</p>

<p>In addition, many of the suggestions on this thread are ridiculous. So-called “men” who prove their “manliness” by burping, obviously staring at women’s cleavage, bedding any female that moves, talking sports all of the time are acting like immature, and stupid adolescents, and also may raise suspicions that they are trying so hard to act like stereotypical men that they actually are gays who are desperately trying to stay closeted.</p>

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<p>I do almost none of the stereotypes in this thread, and I’m quite straight. In fact, I also perform in musical theatre, the only sport I enjoy is fencing, and I watch “girly” anime. So, by the logic of this thread, everyone, including all my exes, must thinking I’m flaming.</p>

<p>Unless hes so flamboyant that Jack from Will and Grace looks like a womanizer, I don’t think he should worry about it.</p>

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<p>tell him to drink beer and avoid colorful mixed drinks. That’s always a dead giveaway.</p>

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<p>Yes this is very very sad. Why can’t we all except eachother?</p>

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<p>your “friend” (i love the “friend” stories) needs to get over it, unless the “friend” is effeminate. if he is, it looks even worse trying to hide that. an effeminate man, gay or straight, who tries to act manly looks REALLY dumb.</p>

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<p>Get diesel and show it off. The rest of manliness follows the buff body.</p>

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<p>Civilized people do not get into fights.</p>

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<p>straight guys are the least to know when a guy is really gay, or to pick it up…unless the gay guy is obviously flamboyant and feminine. Otherwise, their gaydar only works when it’s obvious. if a straight guy has a good gaydar, it’s probably because he’s gay. Gays can pickup gays out regardless of how manly they appear. This is coming from a gay guy himself. </p>

<p>I find it funny when I’ve approached “straight” guys just for conversation, when I later spot them at a gay club, or with time find them doing homosexual activities or having homosexual interests.
they’re usually the one’s that don’t want to be seen with other gay guys, just because they think everyone is watching them, and assume just because their friend is gay, that everyone will assume they’re gay as well.</p>

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<p>Most womyns’ gaydars can detect ersatz behaviour and facades.</p>

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<p>You know what’s funny? The suggestions made my the guys here consist of old tired stereotypes that turn most women off. Most women will not be impressed your mean left hook or a bad smell coming out of your apartment. The qualities that many straight men demean as being “too pansy” or “gay” for them such as caring about how you dress, smell, how clean you are, taste in expensive wines etc. are the qualities that many metrosexuals have in abundance and more often than not, it’s the metros who are beating off women with a stick while the rest of us non-pansy guys are not.</p>

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<p>Yeah, but this guy is gay, so instead of trying to justify your $50 facial try sticking to the topic.
:P</p>

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<p>Well if he wants to act as manly as possible, he should make out with as many women as possible. Problem solved.</p>

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<p>YOU WANT TO BE MANLY? THE ONLY REAL SOLUTION IS BELOW</p>

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<p>But then again, there’s nothing wrong with being who you are. Although Maddox is awesome.</p>

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<p>Ah yes, because Chuck Norris is the epitome of manliness.</p>

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You definitely win this thread.</p>

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<p>As a gay man that was closet at one point, my advice? Umm, don’t act like a fruity. :slight_smile: Honestly, I’m considered by many as the most straight-acting gay man ever :)</p>

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<p>The funny thing is that I found out early on that not acting outright gay but acting kind of ambiguous about my sexuality got me WAY more girls than trying to go the macho route.</p>

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<p>Machoness is definitely a chick magnet. I mean, just look at Picasso!</p>

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<p>I might not get the million dates that the “machos” get, but I have the respect of the ladies and they look to me as a guy they can trust, not some “jerk” as they refer to the other guys as.</p>

<p>There’s a girl I went to HS with who had a problem with some of my “macho” friends–and truthfully, the guys always initiated it. I was the only one she was comfortable talking about anything to out of my group of guy friends.</p>