Robert Loring

Go Shirtless: In support of a brother!!

8-24-2006

A few days ago I was in a local convenience store. In front of me was a young man in his early 20's without a shirt on. He was muscular, hairy chested, and appeared to be a very nice human being. When it came his time to check out the female clerk refused to serve him. She told him he'd have to go put on a shirt and come back before she'd sell him the stuff he was trying to buy. The young man understandably got upset with the clerk once she told him that she would not sell him anything because he had no shirt on. The young man left the store, calling the clerk a few choice names on his way out the door.

I was next in line and the clerk began expressing to me her frustration with the young shirtless man. She told me she finds it disgusting for a male to be shirtless and "show his tits to the world." She also commented about his hairy chest saying that "carpet belongs on the floor not on a man's tits." I stop at this store almost daily and three days later this woman is STILL going on about the shirtless young man!

Excuse me BUT men do NOT have TITS!! Women have tits; men have CHESTS!

This is one more in a long line of examples we all know of of how feminization of males works. Refusing to sell this man anything simply because he was shirtless is absolutely ridiculous. But, the message is, "Either conform to feminized society or you get nothing!". And the additional message is, "It's NOT ok to be a male or to express your masculinity."

That's CRAP!! Yet it seems that more and more any expression by a male of his innate masculinity is more and more "wrong" and increasingly "socially unacceptable." Believe me I've seen plenty of women in that store with barely anything on and breasts almost popping out of their tops yet this same clerk says nothing and sells them whatever they want. But, let a man be a man and he is rejected! What a double-standard we have today!

I finally told this woman yesterday that I will not be back in her store because I saw nothing wrong with the shirtless young man and that I think she was wrong for not serving him. Of course, she did not like my comments but frankly I don't care if she liked what I said or not. After buying my stuff and making my comments letting her know that I found HER offensive I pulled off my T-shirt just to drive MY POINT home. This of course sent this castrating sexists into orbit lol.

What the fuck is wrong with people today? What the fuck is so wrong about a male without any shirt on? Males do NOT have tits! Shirtless males are not exposing their breasts because we don't have any! What is so wrong about chest hair?

It is in subtle little ways like this that males are trained like circus dogs to conform to the dictates of the feminists in our society. How much longer are males going to tolerate this? We are NOT circus dogs in need of training! Being male is NOT wrong! Expressing one's masculinity via the natural body is NOT wrong! There is NOTHING wrong with being a MAN and expressing it for all the world to see! Yet, the message is that being male is somehow wrong, expressing masculinity is "bad," and males no longer really have a place in society if they are masculine. The message is that we must conform like mindless robots, give up who we naturally are, and pretend to be something we are not. The message is that we must be feminized or rejected by society! Now THAT IS wrong!!

Frankly, I think every male in this society should pick a day for no shirts as a form of protest against the feminists who are seeking to impose THEIR will on us while ignoring our wills. Remember when the feminists burned their bras in the street? Maybe men should burn their shirts in the streets. Or better yet, maybe we ought to burn jock straps in the streets as a protest!!

It is natural masculinity for a male to be shirtless. It is NORMAL and it is, in fact, OK! It is also OK to be hairy chested. What is NOT ok is when males try to conform like circus dogs and be something they are not. What is NOT ok is when males live their lives in secret SHAME over their masculinity and manhood. What is NOT ok is self rejection rooted in a society that has obviously LOST it's way and it's innate attributes.

I think as a protest every male should pick a day and go shirtless exposing his "tits" lol to the whole world. That's right! Go to work SHIRTLESS! Go to the store SHIRTLESS! In fact, go everywhere SHIRTLESS! And maybe burn a shirt or a few jock straps along the way!!

As Warriors we each are engaged in battles on a DAILY basis. Many of the battles are subtle like the example above and so we must watch and listen carefully to what people are saying and to what the message is. Every time manhood, maleness, and masculinity are attacked, no matter how subtle the attack is, we should RISE UP and FIGHT BACK. We should NOT turn the other way and pretend we do not hear the attacks!! And, we must JOIN RANKS with our fellow Warriors and STAND BY each other in whatever the situation! Warriors are brothers and, contrary to what society seems to think, brothers DO NOT abandon each other. Nor to SOLDIERS abandon each other on the battlefields!

I only wish I had a camera when I told this male-hating store clerk what I thought yesterday. And I really wish I had one when I took off my shirt. The look on her man-hating face was PRICELESS! As I was walking SHIRTLESS out of the store I noticed several other males in the store who heard our conversation. I heard comments and laughter from them like "Yeah Dude!" and one made a comment shouting "That's right! There's nothing wrong with being a man!". They were supportive of me in my standing up for shirtless-ness and masculinity. They jumped on the band wagon once I removed my shirt and broke their silence. You see, that's what it's going to take. ACTION!! Our feminized brothers will respond to you if YOU take ACTION and LEAD THE WAY! They will begin to assert their own masculinity and manhood if YOU lead the MALE REVOLUTION!

I guess to be like a trained circus dog I should be feeling ashamed today that I exposed my tits to that man-hater. But, I DON'T feel ashamed at all because I see NOTHING wrong with males being male. Oh...that's right....I don't have TITS and NEITHER does any other male out there so now I really DO NOT FEELS ASHAMED! In fact, I feel PROUD and I'm glad I did what I did yesterday in that store in support of a SHIRTLESS BROTHER whom I do not know and who is forever nameless.

Dudes and Warriors

REJECT being ASHAMED OVER YOUR MANHOOD!!

Bill Weintraub

Re: Go Shirtless: In support of a brother!!

8-24-2006

Robert, thank you.

And you're right that this is an important issue.

For those of you who don't know, my husband Patrick, whom I met through this site, is bisexual.

He grew up in a gritty inner-city neighborhood, he was in a lot of street fights, and he was a kickboxer.

And for thirty years -- from the age of 15 till he was 45 -- he slept enthusiastically and exclusively with women.

What no one knew was that he was also into guys.

Specifically, shirtless guys.

They're a major turn-on for him.

He likes being shirtless, and he likes being around guys who are shirtless.

Now, Patrick is not unique.

He's unusual in just one respect -- and that is his honesty, and his ability to own up to his interest in men.

So: these prohibitions against shirtlessness are not just prohibitions against males;

they are prohibitions against male sexuality in its most natural form.

Because Natural Masculinity is built upon the male's sexual desire for his fellow male.

And under heterosexualization, that desire must be suppressed, controlled, ghettoized.

Now, I'm going to quote again from my foreign friend's comments in THE POWER OF THE MASCULINE:

The heterosexual society cares only for women. It sees men only as a problematic group that comes in the way of what is called women's rights.

Right.

You can see that in the clerk in the convenience store who "finds it disgusting for a male to be shirtless and 'show his tits to the world.' She also commented about his hairy chest saying that 'carpet belongs on the floor not on a man's tits.' "

Clearly, this MAN's open and unashamed expression of his MASCULINITY really bothered her.

Because MEN are problematic.

They're problematic because of their sexuality and because of their aggression -- which, remember, my foreign friend said is "the hallmark of masculinity."

And what heterosexual society fears most is the power of the bond between two naturally masculine, naturally sexual, naturally aggressive, MEN.

So that has to be controlled.

And the way it's controlled is by denigrating it and ghettoizing it.

My foreign friend:

Gay men are one of the most ardent supporters of heterosexualisation. They represent the dust bin created by the heterosexualised society to contain the mutilated/ negativised remnants of male-male sex that survives after the intense oppression of them in the mainstream...

He's right.

You can see how mutilated and negativised those remnants are in the post titled Death-peddlers.

Which talks about for-pay barebacking parties aimed at Black men, who have the highest level of HIV prevalence of any group in the world.

And who are lured into these parties in which they swap pathogens and degrade each other.

That's heterosexualization in action.

That's analism in action.

That's the idea: denigrate, degrade, ghettoize --

And, ultimately -- DESTROY.

All the while accusing Masculine Men of being violent, phallocentric, and patriarchal.

Robert's convenience store clerk, with her open contempt for masculinity and her enforcement of rules designed to quash male sexuality and in particular male-male sexuality, is part of that process:

Denigrate, degrade, ghettoize, destroy.

Robert is right that you must FIGHT BACK.

If you don't, those people will kill you.

If not physically, psychologically and spiritually.

And if you haven't figured that out yet, you need to -- real soon.

Robert:

As I was walking SHIRTLESS out of the store I noticed several other males in the store who heard our conversation. I heard comments and laughter from them like "Yeah Dude!" and one made a comment shouting "That's right! There's nothing wrong with being a man!". They were supportive of me in my standing up for shirtless-ness and masculinity. They jumped on the band wagon once I removed my shirt and broke their silence. You see, that's what it's going to take. ACTION!! Our feminized brothers will respond to you if YOU take ACTION and LEAD THE WAY! They will begin to assert their own masculinity and manhood if YOU lead the MALE REVOLUTION!

Dudes and Warriors

REJECT being ASHAMED OVER YOUR MANHOOD!!

Robert's right.

And this is something I've talked about with Naked Wrestler too.

How enthusiastic guys are in an all-male space in which they're able to grapple shirtless.

Shirtless.

Pecs, abs, body hair all proudly displayed.

MEN want to be MEN with MEN.

FIGHT BACK.

© All material Copyright 2006 by Bill Weintraub. All rights reserved.

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Naked Wrestler

Re: Go Shirtless: In support of a brother!!

8-26-2006

It's quite the feeling to be skin to skin with a hot dude in manfight.

One more thing you get to experience in combat sports...