Bill Weintraub

Re: Fighting is Man

11-20-2005

Thanks naked bro.

Naked wrestler, who was a high school and collegiate wrestler and has competed in the Gay Games, is now training in mixed martial arts / UFC-style fighting.

The naked guy is the author of

Cockfuckin Man to Man;

The Ultimate in Man to Man;

balls against balls; and,

aggression and the beauty of guys;

and many posts on this board.

He says

what makes you a man is not what makes your cock hard so much as the willingness to at least learn to fight.

Let's break that down:

what makes you a man

is not what makes your cock hard

so much as the willingness to at least learn to fight.

So: it's not about whether guys or girls get you hard.

It's about learning to fight.

What he's talking about, and so am I, is actual physical fighting, as you do in a martial arts school.

You can interpret it metaphorically as "learning to be an effective actor in the world."

But believe me, you're better off if you go to a martial arts school and learn how to fight.

Because you're not a metaphor dude, you're a human being.

And you live in the material world.

Now, naked's analist "friend" tells him that "fighting's wrong."

This is the bizarre world of analism.

In which it's wrong for a man to know how to fight.

And right for him to get fucked up the butt.

That's insane.

And the result, as we've been talking about, is rape culture.

Guys having their masculinity stripped from them over and over and over again.

And going out and getting HIV and HPV and dying.

That's cool.

Learning how to fight isn't.

To repeat: These people are insane.

I'm doing everything in my power to change this culture.

What are you doing?

Because if all you're doing is coming here and reading these posts --

you're not doing enough.

FIGHT BACK.

SAVE YOUR LIFE.

Bill Weintraub

Re: Fighting is Man

11-23-2005

PS

In a subsequent email, the naked guy remarked to me that even though he'd done all that high school and college wrestling, and wrestling post-college as well, he was intimidated by the thought of training in mixed martial arts / UFC-style fighting, and hesitated to enroll in the fight school:

I remember how afraid and hesitant I was to go in there; and now it's my favorite hangout. Everyone becomes your buddy at fight school.

He's right.

When I was at the dojo, my fellow fighters were my social circle.

Those were the people who understood me and whom I got along with best.

They were there for me all through the last year of Brett's life and after he died.

They were mainly "straight" guys, many of them had never interacted with a gay man before, yet they were very supportive.

I get a lot of email from gay bunnies saying, I wanna be with masc men, str8 guys, etc.

And I say, fine -- learn how to fight.

And they say -- ooooooooooooo

"I can't do that."

Sure you can.

Thinking you can't do that means you've bought into the effeminist lie.

Figure it out.

SAVE YOUR LIFE