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09/25/2008 02:30 a.m.
if one defines manliness in the insecure terms of the
rest of my generation, i am more man that most: i can cook a steak to medium rare,
medium, well done, or black and blue, and recognize a well brewed beer, i have street
raced, camped, fished, and drunk a number of my peers under the table, i have most
likely shot cult 45s with more accuracy and gusto, and, as evidenced, i know
how to pleasure a woman and ask for nothing in return.

it is difficult to be the sort of female i am in this day and age. am i second-wave
feminist? how long will the second-wave last? or am i third wave, the strongest of a
breaker set which denounces gender roles and still gets angry at chauvinism, not merely
because of the patriarchal and unequal implications, but because women as assumed and
stereotyped is simply not ME. if manliness is defined by confidence, bullishness,
crassness, and willingness to be up-front, i am more man than most.

I am currently Reflective