Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent

well what is this "manhood" thing we're talking about? we're increasingly moving to a state where physical labor is replaced by machinery to most jobs can be fulfilled by most people, and it's more a matter of intelligence and will rather than physical standards. as such, the social distinctions based on those physical standards slowly degenerate since they no longer have anything substantial supporting them, except for nostalgia. pretty much we're moving towards a state where all human beings are functionally equivalent and are measured more and more in terms of economical production rather than whatever social constructs they cling to (this is due in part to globalization). however i would maintain that there is a certain degree of "innateness" which these roles we construct play, and that as such it isn't a matter of simply another step in our natural evolution but rather a question of an anti-evolutionary, inorganic anomaly that we have to deal with. by which i refer to the growing military industrial complex tendency towards complete bureaucratization and blind capitalism. naturally.