I mentioned in my last work the absurdity of alleged masculine traits in America and Party identification, only to have the phenomena boldly splashed upon the scene next day by Amanda Marcotte at Salon with RFK Jr.’s pathetic push-up video.
This is not heavy intellectual stuff of vast import, I find myself irritated I have to address it all, but god RFK Jr. is dangerous and completley full of it even when it comes to a push-up, and this ridiculous American masculinity trip by the GOP has the potential to cause a lot of societal damage and misery.
RFK Jr. is not fit, something is wrong here. I thought any guy could as a matter of course could do 10 push-ups, but I have no idea what age does to the equation. In any event his form is all wrong, these aren’t real extensions, yet he still couldn’t make it to 10. It’s jarring because his physique shows he should be able to easily rip out 20, what has happened here?
Do I care what this lying clown can do with his push-up count? No. But I do care that some lying politician has so deluded himself with dishonesty and ego so much he somehow thinks failing at push-ups gives him leadership potential for the country, rarely in the annals of human history has such an idea been so lost and wrong.
I recently reached the Big Six, [sigh] I don’t find aging to be much of a joy ride. I can do 30 push-ups on a dime, is that a lot? I don’t know. If you want to fail at fitness, start comparing yourself to others. On an essayist morning like this I miss my 14 mile dawn riding course to downtown San Jose, omg the pastel colors in a sleeping city, there is nothing else like it.
Is that fitness? I guess so. The definition and why I do it are actually not for my body at all, but I can fairly say all of the GOP clowns doing pushups all over the intertubes are completley full of it, you are not fit, god for the sake of the country and all men stop making completely embarrassing asses of yourselves.
Even if you were fit, does that make you masculine? Partly so, an essential element but perhaps 20% of the equation. Does masculinity make a good trait for political leadership? Jesus, Mary & Joseph, no, it does not, one could be masculine and a good leader, but masculinity would have very little to do with it.
I have no idea what I was like as a young boy age 1-5, all my mother will say is that I was “very affectionate,” whatever that really means. Then a viciously ruthless, enraged drunk father with a serious projection problem ripped my childhood apart with ceaseless violence, ripping abuse and quaking fear for the next 13 years, yeah I can tell you how masculinity can go pretty god damn wrong.
I think I am basely a soft sensual person, I often act like it, but my developmental psychology was so smashed in from the opposite pole I possess both masculine and feminine traits at the same time, I am a living paradox of psychology. Naturally after what I went through I seriously loathe masculine traits and according to the absurd societal definitions I lead a feminine life, I grow roses, cook and bake, have cats for pets.
Most of the political writers I am devoted to are women, I instinctively don’t trust men. Women believe me and what I went through, they understand and know what it did to me.
What it can do to the country, does this really have to be said again? Good leadership requires so much maturity, such an ability to understand others, listen to them, collaborate effectively, have a real vision and focus and yet accept setbacks gracefully, empathize with human failure. That takes a truly developed human being of education, accomplishment, grace and maturity, none of which are ever found working out in the gym.
Infatuation with fitness and whatever stupid definitions of masculinity are out there are the hallmarks of lost grossly immature fascists who think strength and dominance are somehow leadership, when in fact brute strength only represents tyranny and lost democracy. These are base facts widely known for a long time, but as I’ve said many times the Republicans are in regression, they’re going backwards and have even lost this knowledge.