True Male Beauty!

*lick*

btw, "masculinist" isn't a term. if you believe in men's equality, the term would still be "feminist" js.
watch the movie "Tough Guise". It's a feminist documentary about men in the media and ridiculous standards they have to live up to. It's amazing.

It's sexist that a male equality movement would require a feminine term like feminist.

I like masculinist, it is now a real term. Thank you OP for addressing this distressing trend.

Unfotunately, it IS a term. It has been used by groups that were anti-feminist (ie. misogynist) and so, unfortunately, has a bad connotation. From Wikipedia:

Masculism or masculinism may variously refer to advocacy of the rights or needs of men; the adherence to or promotion of opinions, values, attitudes, etc. regarded as typical of men;[1][2][3] or, alternatively, an approach that is focused on male superiority[4][5] to the exclusion of women.

Personally I prefer the term "anti-sexist" as it covers the bases. Though I have had feminists get mad at me for that, like i'm supposed to agree that the term "feminist" covers it all. I know it is supposed to...but I agree, why does the term have to have a root word that inherently reflects only one gender?

We refer to it as feminism because it's easy and has been around for decades, and feminism is about both men and women as it's supposed to remove the stigma and inequality of being feminine, men can also be feminine. There's a stigma against effeminate men, this extends to things like homosexuality (because liking other men is considered emasculating in society), the stigmatization of women AND men who have been sexually assaulted (because to be raped is to be emasculated in society), and the perceptions of men in general as masculine and powerful is also one that is addressed by feminism.

Feminism is about femininity, not the "female." The issue is that women have significantly more obstacles to face than men when it comes to leveling the playing field and finding equality in the world (and a safe environment) than men do at the moment, so that's the greatest focus of the movement because it is the greatest problem.

Make it okay for women to be women in today's society without being treated as objects because of their natural traits or their gender, and all of a sudden men who "display" traits of that gender, whether genuinely more feminine, or just based on stereotypes of what femininity is, will find that their situation improves as well.

MRAs, "masculinists," or whatever the hell else you want to call them, are just weird misogynists who are upset that fixing these issues require a focus on a gender that isn't their's, it's them having their egos reduced because in a life where everything is about them, there is something that isn't about them.
Look at the people who complain about being racially profiled because they're white, or who complain that homosexuals are infringing on "heterosexual rights" or other imaginary garbage.

People are intrinsically childish, they don't understand what they're really saying, they don't understand the topic whatsoever, and if they actually took a Women's Studies class they'd probably figure it out, but the name of that class isn't Men's Studies (see 20,000 BC - 2013 AD) so they're going to complain and whine about the name being Women's Studies and then go and scream about how there isn't a White History Month or something equally absurd.

We refer to it as feminism because it's easy and has been around for decades, and feminism is about both men and women as it's supposed to remove the stigma and inequality of being feminine, men can also be feminine. There's a stigma against effeminate men, this extends to things like homosexuality (because liking other men is considered emasculating in society), the stigmatization of women AND men who have been sexually assaulted (because to be raped is to be emasculated in society), and the perceptions of men in general as masculine and powerful is also one that is addressed by feminism.

Feminism is about femininity, not the "female." The issue is that women have significantly more obstacles to face than men when it comes to leveling the playing field and finding equality in the world (and a safe environment) than men do at the moment, so that's the greatest focus of the movement because it is the greatest problem.

Make it okay for women to be women in today's society without being treated as objects because of their natural traits or their gender, and all of a sudden men who "display" traits of that gender, whether genuinely more feminine, or just based on stereotypes of what femininity is, will find that their situation improves as well.

MRAs, "masculinists," or whatever the hell else you want to call them, are just weird misogynists who are upset that fixing these issues require a focus on a gender that isn't their's, it's them having their egos reduced because in a life where everything is about them, there is something that isn't about them.
Look at the people who complain about being racially profiled because they're white, or who complain that homosexuals are infringing on "heterosexual rights" or other imaginary garbage.

People are intrinsically childish, they don't understand what they're really saying, they don't understand the topic whatsoever, and if they actually took a Women's Studies class they'd probably figure it out, but the name of that class isn't Men's Studies (see 20,000 BC - 2013 AD) so they're going to complain and whine about the name being Women's Studies and then go and scream about how there isn't a White History Month or something equally absurd.

LOL. From the 'royal we' to begging the question to brushstrokes so broad that they are measured in AU . . . that was a true masterwork.

any.
day.
ever.

That's a movie character.

The real test is if you'd take that body if it were named Joe Blue and worked as a greeter at the local Wal-Mart.

And why is Jeff Goldblum getting no love? He's got that smart nerdy thing going on, plus I think his voice is very yummy. :flowerforyou:

thin/not bulky men (Asian men in particular)<3<3<3

Real beauty has very little to do with how you look, male or female.

However, I couldn't give two hoots about the perceived inequality. The day when a man's worth is judged as much on the way he looks as a woman's is the day I will start caring.