It all depends on how you say it, IMHO. Snarling "[expletive deleted] fabulous" to react to the handle on your double-butted throwing axe breaking during a lumberjack competition is hardly effeminate...
'Cute' and Other Unmanly Expressions
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We've recently had a 1200+ response thread based entirely on this fact. As for eBay, it continues to be a source of amusement as I watch determined dimwits prove the veracity of P. T. Barnum's theorums of human behavior. A recent example:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ENGLISH-ESTATE-PIPE-BARLING-SPECIAL-EXEXEL-PRE-TRANSITION-/371022860794?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&nma=true&si=T78%252B9KpJudwrY%252BG3OygVilRgrvw%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
12pups: I actually own a double-bitted throwing axe. Nice little job by Gransfors Bruks, with a shorter handle than their felling axes. I don't actually compete with it, but I occasionally throw it at things as part of my stress management program. Hurling stonking big axes at things is every bit as relaxing as it sounds, perhaps even more.
Anyhow, no word of a joke, I named it "Pixie Twinklebelle".
Anyhow, no word of a joke, I named it "Pixie Twinklebelle".
I ain't about to argue with a man who hurls a throwing axe as a form of stress management. Cute axe.
I think it's a little difficult to joke sometimes on a forum. For the record, my post was a complete joke. I was actually being extremely sarcastic because I don't give a crap how anyone talks. I was actually trying to make fun of the whole concept of certain words belonging to certain groups. I think sarcasm is a little difficult to express in a post.
Speaking literally, I am 100% pro gay rights, gay marriage, and have many gay friends and relatives and am not at all homophobic. I think that teasing is a step towards familiarity, which is a step towards acceptance.
I use the words Cute, Spiffy, and Fabulous all the time and I am not gay. However, I try not to use the word "Super" because I am afraid it might make me gay. That was sarcasm.
Speaking literally, I am 100% pro gay rights, gay marriage, and have many gay friends and relatives and am not at all homophobic. I think that teasing is a step towards familiarity, which is a step towards acceptance.
I use the words Cute, Spiffy, and Fabulous all the time and I am not gay. However, I try not to use the word "Super" because I am afraid it might make me gay. That was sarcasm.
My neighbour just got a 1968 Karmann Ghia. If I couldn't use the word "cute" to describe it, for fear of sounding effeminate, I would only be able to describe the car as "green"...
How about we talk about "buzz words." Where I work we are so full of buzz words that it doesn't even come close to being "cute." "Path forward," "It is what it is" and "It's all good" drive me nuts. It seems the more forward we go on our path the more effin cute we get. Cynicism reigns supreme here as well as a heaping dose of sarcasm. But it's all good if you drink the Kool-Aid.
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