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Question

Consider what is 'feminine' now a days.
Consider what is 'manly' now a days.
Consider what is 'un-manly' and 'un-feminine' now a days.

Now if we were flung into another dark age where we lost all of our technology and modern conveniances would this change our preconceptions of what is manly and feminine now a days? How so?

If our definitions of what is 'manly' and 'feminine' are based on technology, then would that blur the differences between men and women? (ex: A male construction worker is considered manly, but he is assisted by machines that would make a woman able to do the job as easy and maybe even a little better. Mowing the lawn with gas powered lawn mower, or driving a tractor are other examples.)

If the lines are blurred then can we say that we really grasp what is manly and feminine?

Do you think this technology is perhaps negative (in terms of social development of sexes), and if so what are the foreseeable negative or positive effects that await us?

Answer 1

Funny how my wife and I were discussing something close to this just the other day, owing to that she is now an executive type who takes her tanned and buffed husband to company parties as arm candy. ("I'm with her.")

But it has been noted that the collapse of great cultures -- like Greece and Rome -- have been attended by the breakdown of traditional social roles and sexual identity. I will not debate the "which came first" here. They attend one another and I cannot appoint cause and effect for sure, although Desmond Morris once observed that in an unnatural environment organisms of all kinds behave unnaturally. Think on that.

It has also been pointed out that the ancients showed clearly the ability to develop surprising technology, but always seemed to stop just short of it, as if a kind of tabboo hung over this dark magic. This writer -- and I wish I could remember his name -- suggested that the elders recognized that the further distanced we became from interaction with Nature, the more devitalized our lives become. The idea has sort of an eerie ring to it, no?

In my rough and tumble line of work there is a lot of new technology that I don't even use. As a result, at 44 I can out work the average 20 yr. old. Not long ago I took a cigarette break while a young man acted as if he were dying at my feet. "This work will make you strong," I said. "My woman loves it when I wrap these pythons around her and give her a big ol' squeeze." Leaning over with his hands on his knees he looked up at me and, between breaths, said, "My woman's not into all that macho ****." I didn't even know how to respond to that.

Answer 2

Follow the teaching of the 'best selling book of all times'. The problem is that though the King James Edition is the most purchased book, very few people will read it.
It has set on many a bookshelf unused. It's not bought as a resources, rather as a gift by 'well meaning people'. In order to understand you question, first you must believe in a higher being.
Don't take this as an insult, for I to have had some reservations in life thus far. Through the subject is intriguing, it still can't be answered. As the book states, 'this to shall pass'.
In time, say a millennium or two from now, if the plant survives that long, humans may became as some lesser life forms. Becoming an 'asexual' creature and thereby rendering this question mute.

Answer 3

When the masculine side of this phenomenon starts having babies and the feminine side starts producing the sperm needed to satisfy the final and most important urge, procreating... any and all lines look blurred in that I know of no masculine activity that is not feminine and no feminine activity that hasn't some masculine features. Masculine and feminine are only really descriptions of behavior that both genders seem to have large proportions of each other, and the only defining point is in the physical activity where the procreative activity must perform both masculine and feminine as one body for a moment to satisfy the regeneration of the species.

Answer 4

The definitions of femininity and masculinity are changing. People will behave in ways that support existance and allow them to reproduce. If men in a society are more likely to find a suitable mate by exhibiting certain behaviors, he will adopt those behaviors. Women will behave in a way that is valued by men in society. At one time, it was not considered feminine to tan the skin and today it is considered attractive. Is it possible that it is not necessary to define the terms?

Answer 5

What are you talking about? Women are not manly because the mow the lawn.

Answer 6

an insensitive, carefree attitude combined with egos and perversion