The negative stereotyping of homosexual men that was the norm of my generation, that's what -- which, incidentally, I as a slightly built nonathletic teenage boy believed along with so many other people (and that was to my own hurt). The problem is that these demeaning stereotypes were false.
Machismo is being inconsistent and hypocritical as usual. Let me see now. . . . Machismo values physical strength and athletic prowess above virtually everything else, doesn't it? Well, in my various excursions on the Internet and other media, I've noticed that some of the most rugged guys are gay! (As a 63-year-old straight guy on a bodybuilding program, I sure wish I was as well built as them!) There are gays who play football! (Of course, when I was a boy, the standard line that was spouted to parents was "Hey, if your son has no interest in sports, then something is wrong! He probably has homosexual tendencies! What a loser! What a sorry excuse of a son you have!" A fine contribution of the sports culture to the misery of nonathletic boys. Well, I think Brian Sims and Esera Tuaolo might have something to say about this sort of assumption. Oh, I forgot. This sort of stereotyping is still done today in some quarters!) So, all the advocates of machismo should be "man enough" to admit when they have been wrong; but that's expecting too much of those people.
By the way (and I don't mean to sound like a jerk), do you realize what I've done? I've resurrected an old thread! 
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