Being Strong

[Guest MrAwesome]

Well, guys naturally are stronger, we protect our young, protect our families, we go kill the meat and drag it home for our ladies to cook up. XD lol While girls physically and mentally are more made for carrying children and taking care of them and nurturing them. And I was just thinking about, what's the best way to prove that we are strong, prove our masculinity.

[Guest Zabrak]

Be yourself.

Sorry I know thats not what you wanted to hear. T will help bulk you up if/when you start it when it comes to muscle mass.

[Sally]

OK, Mr. Awesome,

I will tell you the secret of my 'passing as male' for all of these years - just look at my profile - it isn't my rugged good looks and I am no body builder.

I shouldn't really be telling you this because no one hads given you the 'Macho Man Secret Handshake' yet, but I'm leaving that fraternity anyway.

Here is the secret to proving that you are strong - never try!

That's it, look around you - look at the men that you think of as strong, really strong in characte as well as muscles - they don't walk around with their knuckles dragging the ground and beating their chests.

Look at a couple of the movies all time 'tough guys', real men's men - Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson - they seldom yelled (usually whispered) almost never flexed their muscles and no one ever doubted their strength.

I'll even give you a little known fact about my late friend Charles Bronson (I didn't kow him that well but each time we talked he called me 'my friend' so I don't think he would mind) when he was very young his family was very poor, working in coal mines, he was the youngest child with older sisters and had to wear hand me downs to scool - he managed to come out of wearing skirts to school and be the ultimate example of a self confident adult, compassionate man - you can too.

The secret just be yourself and don't try to 'be' how you think you should 'be', that's whay you are transitioning to be yourself and not 'be' how someone else wants you to be.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest bronx]

Men don't prove how strong thy are to anyone unless they are insecure about themselves.

[Guest leo]

just be yourself

not every guy you see are body builders are they?

strength is all in the mind

[Guest Elizabeth K]

I can tell what I TRIED to do to be accepted as a man. It was playacting but here are some hints:

If someone cuts you off on the interstate, SHOOT THEM

If someone hits your car in the parking lot then runs off and you locate their car later - RAM IT

If you see a deer in the forest - KILL IT

If you go fishing and actually catch fish - CUT OF THEIR HEADS AND GUT THEM while they are still alive

If you see a good looking girl and she seems interested in you - PURSUE HER, tell her ANYTHING to try to get her in bed

If you accidently cut off your arm while using a chainsaw - LAUGH and say its NO BIG DEAL and ask for a bandaid

And best of all - when you favorite dog dies - CRY LIKE A BABY - thats the ONLY time you can get away with showing emotion

Hope this helps

MACHO GAL LIZ

[Guest Zabrak]

I can tell what I TRIED to do to be accepted as a man. It was playacting but here are some hints:

If someone cuts you off on the interstate, SHOOT THEM

If someone hits your car in the parking lot then runs off and you locate their car later - RAM IT

If you see a deer in the forest - KILL IT

If you go fishing and actually catch fish - CUT OF THEIR HEADS AND GUT THEM while they are still alive

If you see a good looking girl and she seems interested in you - PURSUE HER, tell her ANYTHING to try to get her in bed

If you accidently cut off your arm while using a chainsaw - LAUGH and say its NO BIG DEAL and ask for a bandaid

And best of all - when you favorite dog dies - CRY LIKE A BABY - thats the ONLY time you can get away with showing emotion

Hope this helps

MACHO GAL LIZ

HAHAHAHAHHAHA

*chokes* *coughs*

If someone cuts you off on the interstate, SHOOT THEM

HAHAHHAHHAHA

[Guest Sergei]

I think that's a stereotype. Men have the biological advantage of more muscle mass, but it doesn't always mean they are stronger. I don't need to prove I'm strong or prove my masculinity. I'm pretty strong, but just generally because I'm a big guy. And I'm not masculine at all, nor do I wish to be, because that isn't me. As transguys we shouldn't worry about these things. Like I have pointed out before, the whole point of transitioning is to become who we really are. If we arn't naturally big macho guys who cares, if you spend your time trying to be then you are in a position just as bad as before. Pretending you are something you arn't. Just be yourself.

[Guest StrandedOutThere]

Yeah! What everyone else said! Don't try too hard. Just be cool and calm.

[Guest StrandedOutThere]

Incidentally, Clint Eastwood was cool in Gran Torino.

[Guest Nekomata]

Crush a beercan to your forehead!

[Guest amie]

I can tell what I TRIED to do to be accepted as a man. It was playacting but here are some hints:

If someone cuts you off on the interstate, SHOOT THEM

If someone hits your car in the parking lot then runs off and you locate their car later - RAM IT

If you see a deer in the forest - KILL IT

If you go fishing and actually catch fish - CUT OF THEIR HEADS AND GUT THEM while they are still alive

If you see a good looking girl and she seems interested in you - PURSUE HER, tell her ANYTHING to try to get her in bed

If you accidently cut off your arm while using a chainsaw - LAUGH and say its NO BIG DEAL and ask for a bandaid

And best of all - when you favorite dog dies - CRY LIKE A BABY - thats the ONLY time you can get away with showing emotion

Hope this helps

MACHO GAL LIZ

Hillarious.

Crush a beercan to your forehead!

Bwaaaha! Been to a few frat parties have we, Michelle?

Incidentally, Clint Eastwood was cool in Gran Torino.

Yeah he was. I've always loved that guy. He's gettin' up there in the years too.

I'm rilly gonna miss him when he's gone.

I hope that's a good ways off.

He's one heck of a director too.

All this razzin' is all in good fun, Mr. Awsome.

Relax, Bub. Don't let that concern yu much. I think you'll do fine.

[xanyx]

Well, if you want to prove your strength and masculinity to yourself.. (the only one worth proving it to),

then pushing the limits at the gym I think something that works. It builds more character too, not just the muscles, and

builds the confidence. Boxing, and other marital arts... Successful career.

Now, traditional gender boundaries are being erased and there's more of a range of "genders" and androginy rather than binary and traditional roles of males and females. Even girls who want to be girls desire to be strong and competitive, often stronger than males (at least that's what I see in America). Plus, keep in mind that bio-male is often a very weak creature

inside--tough on outside, but in many ways weaker than biowoman.

[Guest My_Genesis]

Crave meat a lot, get crabby when you're hungry, have trouble understanding/talking to 75%+ of girls, suck at multi-tasking, have more upper than lower body strength in general, crack a lot of that's what she said jokes...lol.

definitely some of my most masculine traits

[Guest Myles]

I guess I failed that one then, my arms and legs are proportionate, I work out a lot and treat all muscle group equally. I am also good at multitasking so I guess I am just doomed to begin with. HAHA

I say be yourself and be secure in who you are. I don't work out so others think I'm masculine , I work out because I like doing it.

Myles