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Squinch

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5. I think a lowest possible expectation of "manliness" is that a real man doesn't buy another person.

Reply to F4lconF16 (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 14, 2014, 05:04 PM

Mar 2014

This isn't about men's feelings, or what someone chooses to be, or a measurable ideal of manliness. It's about a lowest common denominator of what constitutes a decent human being.

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*Real Men Don't* Campaign [View all] Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2014 OP

Oh, Jesus! ... Obviously! Deep13 Mar 2014 #1

"... a brothel where all the women or girls are from somewhere else, they're slaves." redqueen Mar 2014 #8

When I was in Beirut last summer, I heard there was a city further north... Deep13 Mar 2014 #9

Real men don't buy other human beings, period. geek tragedy Mar 2014 #2

The comments in the link also say that, too. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2014 #3

+1 redqueen Mar 2014 #6

While I don't object to the ideas of the campaign F4lconF16 Mar 2014 #4

I think a lowest possible expectation of "manliness" is that a real man doesn't buy another person. Squinch Mar 2014 #5

I couldn't agree more that this isn't about men's feeling's. F4lconF16 Mar 2014 #10

I conceive of it as synonymous with "a mature, decent adult" nt geek tragedy Mar 2014 #7