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Anonymous ID: 7d8e7f Aug. 20, 2021, 5:18 p.m. No.14411011   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1045 >>1053 >>1187

Booming business at dollar stores shows the widening gulf between haves and have-nots during pandemic

 

With rising inflation and disproportionately high job losses among low-income earners, more Americans are relying on dollar stores for groceries and other everyday needs

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/20/growing-number-americans-are-relying-dollar-stores/

Anonymous ID: 7d8e7f Aug. 20, 2021, 5:23 p.m. No.14411056   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/are-straight-women-and-gay-men-e2809cnatural-alliese2809d-an-evolutionary-account/

Anonymous ID: 7d8e7f Aug. 20, 2021, 5:31 p.m. No.14411112   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.tennisworldusa.org/tennis/news/Tennis_Interviews/100165/brian-vahaly-accuses-atp-of-homophobia-and-machismo/

Anonymous ID: 7d8e7f Aug. 20, 2021, 5:36 p.m. No.14411162   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Machismo (/məˈtʃiːzmoʊ, mɑː-, -ˈtʃɪ-/; Spanish: [maˈtʃismo]; Portuguese: [maˈʃiʒmu]; from Spanish and Portuguese "macho", male)[1] is the sense of being "manly" and self-reliant, the concept associated with "a strong sense of masculine pride: an exaggerated masculinity".[2] It is associated with "a man's responsibility to provide for, protect, and defend his family".[3] Machismo is strongly and consistently associated with dominance, aggression, exhibition, and nurturance. The correlation to machismo is found to be deeply rooted in family dynamics and culture.

 

The Crowning of the Virtuous Hero by Peter Paul Rubens

The word macho has a long history in both Spain and Portugal as well as in Spanish and Portuguese languages. It was originally associated with the ideal societal role men were expected to play in their communities, most particularly, Iberian language-speaking societies and countries. Macho in Portuguese and Spanish is a strictly masculine term, derived from the Latin mascŭlus, meaning "male". Machos in Iberian-descended cultures are expected to possess and display bravery, courage, and strength as well as wisdom and leadership, and ser macho (literally, "to be a macho") was an aspiration for all boys.

 

Caballerosidad

 

Portrait of Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire

"Caballerosidad" in Spanish, or cavalheirismo in Portuguese, or the English mixture of both but not a proper word in any of the previously mentioned languages, caballerismo, is a Latin American understanding of manliness that focuses more on honour and chivalry.[4] The meaning of caballero is "gentleman" (derived from the one who follows a code of honour like knights used to do, or shares certain values and ideals associated with them that included, among others like a particular pride in honour, treating women kindly with especial delicacy and attention). Latin American scholars have noted that positive descriptors of machismo resemble the characteristics associated with the concept of caballerosidad.[5] Understandings of machismo in Latin American cultures are not all negative; they also involve the characteristics of honour, responsibility, perseverance and courage, related to both individual and group interaction.[5][6] Studies show Latin American men understand masculinity to involve considerable childcare responsibilities, politeness, respect for women's autonomy, and non-violent attitudes and behaviors.[7] In this way, machismo comes to mean both positive and negative understanding of Latin American male identity within the immigrant context. Therefore, machismo, like all social constructions of identity, should be understood as having multiple layers.[5][8]

 

The word caballerosidad originates from the Spanish word caballero, Spanish for "knight". Caballerosidad refers to a chivalric masculine code of behavior. (Note that the English term also stems from the Latin root caballus, through the French chevalier). Like the English chivalric code, caballerosidad developed out of a medieval socio-historical class system in which people of wealth and status owned horses for transportation and other forms of horsepower whereas the lower classes did not. It was also associated with the class of knights in the feudal system. In Spanish, caballero referred to a land-owning colonial gentleman of high station who was master of estates and/or ranches.[5]

 

Depictions

The depictions of Machismo vary, like the gaucho, though their characteristics are quite familiar. Machismo is based on biological, historical, cultural, psycho-social and interpersonal traits or behaviors. Some of the well known traits are;

 

Posturing; assume a certain, often unusual or exaggerated body posture or attitude. They must settle all differences, verbal or physical abuse, or challenges and disagreements with violence as opposed to diplomacy. Treating their wife as a display of an aloof lord-protector. Women are loving, men conquer.[9]

Bravado; outrageous boasting, overconfidence.

Social dominance; as a socio-culturally defined dominance; macho swagger.

Sexual prowess, being sexually assertive. Shyness is a collective issue for men.[10]

Protecting one's honor. A belief in protecting honor in spite of risks.

A willingness to face danger.[11]

From a Mexican-Chicano cultural and psychological perspective, the psycho-social traits can be summarized as; emotional invulnerability, patriarchal dominance, aggressive or controlling responses to stimuli and ambivalence toward women.[12][13] These traits have been seen as a Mexican masculine response to the Spanish conquistador conquering of the Americas.[14] It has been noted by some scholars that machismo was adopted as a form of control for the male body.[15]

Anonymous ID: 7d8e7f Aug. 20, 2021, 5:42 p.m. No.14411211   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1219 >>1343

Bara (薔薇, 'rose') is a colloquialism used to refer to a genre of Japanese comic art and media known within Japan as gay manga (ゲイ漫画) or gei komi (ゲイコミ, 'gay comics'). The genre focuses on male same-sex love, as created primarily by gay men for a gay male audience. Bara can vary in visual style and plot, but typically features masculine men with varying degrees of muscle, body fat, and body hair, akin to bear or bodybuilding culture. While bara is typically pornographic, the genre has also depicted romantic and autobiographical subject material, as it acknowledges the varied reactions to homosexuality in modern Japan.

 

The use of bara as an umbrella term to describe gay Japanese comic art is largely a non-Japanese phenomenon: the term is not used within Japan, and its use is not universally accepted by creators of gay manga. In this non-Japanese context, bara is used to describe a wide breadth of Japanese and Japanese-inspired gay erotic media, including illustrations published in early Japanese gay men's magazines, western fan art, and gay pornography featuring human actors. Bara is occasionally conflated with yaoi (also known as boys' love or BL), but yaoi is historically created by and for women, and typically features androgynous bishōnen (lit. "beautiful men") over the masculine men.