Blue Truck, Red State: Guys Having Fun

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Guys Having Fun

A random collection of mostly shirtless guys from the last century. Delightful.

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2 comments:

Frank said...: With few exceptions these guys don't come close to the hyper-masculinity that is considered the standard of male beauty today (and I'm not necessarily referring to gay porn). Even in the 1970s the male physique wasn't all muscle and hair. What happened?; August 27, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Russ Manley said...: That's a very interesting question, Frank. I can think of some possible and partial answers - but this night owl is en route to bed here, and not up for philosophical inquiry at this time.

As a matter of history, though, you have made me realize that the male form has been glamorized in our lifetime, in a way that only the female form was in previous eras, with few exceptions. Hmm.

What I can say is that from about age 14 on up, I was acutely aware that my scrawny physique was a shameful thing, compared to what I'd seen in P. E. locker rooms. Now though, it seems to me that I would have fit into most of those old photographs.

But maybe that lack of confidence kept me out of trouble! Who knows . . . .; August 29, 2024 at 2:51 AM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu