Lumbersexuality- an interesting article

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http://gearjunkie.com/the-rise-of-the-lumbersexual

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There is some interesting discussion in the wranglerstar video on this. Some believe, and I'd agree, that much of this is a reaction to years of certain political groups trying to strip away male identity (basically making people feel ashamed for being men), and now that males have no identity they have to latch onto the appearance of being men because they no longer know what it really means.

It is sort of funny, but also sad when you think that people have to live off of an identity that others created, and beneath it all there is no substance just an image.

For me it doesn't matter much since I live in the country and there are only towns nearby where plenty of people still dress in hunting clothes when they go to town/live there. I have seen the hipster culture though when I lived in cities and it seems like a lot of them are just trying to make up for some emptiness they feel.
 
+1 to Chignecto Woodsman. Live in rural Maine so most people go to town in what they work in, or hunt in. Hipsters and such in larger cities but thank god I don't live near any of them. Never heard of this lumber thing though, weird.
 
I live in what used to be rural arkansas and I've noticed this happening around here. I wish some of them would help me cut firewood...
 
This is interesting. I live outside Portland, OR. A local Eagles club has a flea market of sorts on Hawthorne Street - an exceptionally trendy neighborhood. The one time I hit it up I found and older Collins double bit. Walking back to my truck

I passed two guys that looked like the one in the posted picture. Both eyed me like they have never seen and axe and gave me a wide berth.

Plaid is great but the skinny jeans/manpris ruin the look...

Suppose they don't have to worry about getting the cuffs caught up on the espresso steaming wands.
 
You should see them all in Seattle. They're everywhere. When they start wearing suspenders then I'm gonna go preppie! Too much!
 
All I hear when I read this sort of thing is how Americans love labels, love labeling people, and love generating ludicrous labels all while simultaneously shunning them. Then to make it worse, they can't tell the difference between "style" (and dare I say life-style) and sexuality. At the very least the article clearly demonstrates the author's sexual confusion because he or she actually believes that wearing a particular style of clothing is in some way inherently connected to, or indicative of, sexuality. The concept of any kind of "blank-sexual" that doesn't specifically describe reproduction/sexuality is par for the course in the disintegrating American culture.
 
Square_peg said:
You should see them all in Seattle. They're everywhere. When they start wearing suspenders then I'm gonna go preppie! Too much!
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I've fallen victim too, but I've always dressed that way. Thinking about adding suspenders because as I age my pants get harder to hold up! Just let me be, I've waited my whole to be trendy, and this could be THE chance :)!!!!
 
Somebody paint a weird black collar around the head-end of that Ox-head or did the Photoshop-assisted Urban Ad execs decide that that is what real axes are supposed to look like?
 
I must regrettably say that I have been called that before. Also a hillbilly-hipster. I wondered why they thought that, I just look like I spend WAY too much time in the woods. I understand it now! I have been fashionable all along, and people like me so much they want to imitate me! Yep. That's my story and I am sticking to it. :D
 
I get more than my share of ribbing about the way I dress. I have just never changed. Pendleton shirts and levis. Now when they say somthing about it I just tell them I'm a hipster.
I didn't know what a hipster was until I read about it on these forms. I think my son in law is one. He wears funny looking pants.:grumpy:
What should I do about it? To late to run him off they are married now.
 
Lol...this is so true! Is see these guys all the time! They are also the same guys that flip out when they see my gun or knife that 9 outta 10 time I open carry! The wilderness would chew them up and spit them out in minutes if not seconds! It just sucks that all my cloths look like theirs! They just assume I'm one of them...one of use, one of use...lol
 
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cityofthesouth said:
All I hear when I read this sort of thing is how Americans love labels, love labeling people, and love generating ludicrous labels all while simultaneously shunning them. Then to make it worse, they can't tell the difference between "style" (and dare I say life-style) and sexuality. At the very least the article clearly demonstrates the author's sexual confusion because he or she actually believes that wearing a particular style of clothing is in some way inherently connected to, or indicative of, sexuality. The concept of any kind of "blank-sexual" that doesn't specifically describe reproduction/sexuality is par for the course in the disintegrating American culture.
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This. A thousand times, this. I get called a hipster all the time because of the way I dress. I wear what I wear because I find it comfortable and stylish. I don't see it any different than when someone wears camo on any occasion they aren't hunting, which is all the time for plenty of people that bemoan "hipsters" wearing things because of trendiness. Camo and carhartt's are trendy in some circles. Just not mine.

I wear slim-fit jeans because they are more comfortable for me. I'm a slim guy and I feel like I'm swimming in anything else.
I wear plaid flannel because I need something warm about that's the design it comes in.
I DO wear suspenders, because they work better for me than a belt.
And once in awhile you'll see me carrying an axe while wearing all of this. Not because I'm some sort of empty shell searching for meaning. But because my dad taught me a couple bucks was worth spending to turn someone's trash into a treasure.

But to Hell with all that, I'm a hipster because what you can see fits into a category you're comfortable with, something you have a word for. Doesn't matter at all who I actually am as a person.

American society demands everyone be put into a neat little category. It's disgusting.
 
Creek_Stomper said:
American society demands everyone be put into a neat little category. It's disgusting.
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And now you know why I go by the handle 'Square_peg'. I don't fit in any of the neat little boxes they love to shove you into. I take pride in that. I'm a square peg in a round hole.
 
I'm guilty of wearing a camo carhartt jacket outside of hunting, wear it all the time camping and working in the woods and sometimes when I go to town. But it cuts the wind well and I don't really have the money to buy a second in another colour.
 
I will try not to make this a political diatribe. These things are a direct manifestation of the decline of the American way of life. Our morals and our very values have been under attack since FDR, and have increased by an order of magnitude in the last 6 years – I’ll leave it to you to figure out why. Every day there is a new outrage and it seems that nothing is sacred any longer - whether it’s a youngster told to turn his American flag T-shirt inside out out of fear of offending Muslims or Mexican kids, a kid getting expelled for biting his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun, or a refusal to call terrorism what it is. The deterioration of the family unit is directly responsible. Kids are being raised in fractured families or by a single parent and are taught that everyone wins. Trophies are given just for participation, which teaches them that exceptional achievement is no longer desirable – why try to excel when they will be rewarded for mediocre performance? This has led to a sense of entitlement and is directly responsible for the conversion of America into a welfare State. Success is frowned upon and even despised. The decline in quality education has lead to a generation of illiterate kids who do not know how to think for themselves. Critical thinking is no longer taught. Just look at ASU. This “university” has remedial courses which try to re-teach youngsters what they failed to learn in our public indoctrination centers… sorry, public schools, but the curriculums are laughable - pathetic really. The attack on our Judeo-Christian values, the unwillingness of the silent majority to stand for what’s true and right out of fear of being labeled or attacked have all contributed to our decline. America was just rated 12th in a list of nations in regard to financial freedom - 12th! We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world, political correctness is out of control, tax and spend, facebook now has upwards of 50 terms to choose from to describe your sex – apparently, male/female is no longer an adequate descriptor, etc… etc… These are just a few (a very few) of the issues we are facing as a nation, and this “metrosexual,” “lumbersexual,” and any other …sexual term you can think of are just a few of the symptoms we’re seeing as a result of a nation in decline.
 
I was out in Denver for a work conference last month and a buddy of mine from Kentucky called me and another friend I was talking to "a couple of lumbersexuals". First time I'd ever heard the term but I did laugh because both of us were standing there in jeans, boots, flannel shirts and we both have beards. But I live in rural TN and it's winter, so I come by it honestly. I'm about as trendy as Al on Home Improvement and look a little like him too. The other guy he was referring to does what I do in Burlington VT, and I think maybe that's probably an accurate description of him- it's what's in style where he lives and with the college students he works with. Meanwhile I had to google it to find out that "lumbersexual" really is "a thing" and not just something my buddy had made up on the spot. Hilarious!
 
Square_peg said:
And now you know why I go by the handle 'Square_peg'. I don't fit in any of the neat little boxes they love to shove you into. I take pride in that. I'm a square peg in a round hole.
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But that's the point right there. You (we) are who you are. Other people make the boxes, and they put you in them, it makes no difference who you really are or whether you fit in the box or not. They won't ask you. The idiot who wrote that article certainly didn't ask his/her "examples" but proceeded to label away. The only way for you to not fit in the boxes is for you to acknowledge that they are real, and in every effort you make to avoid one, you fit in another.

Make no acknowledgment of their boxes, instead reject the labels, reject the labelers, reject the hypocrites. I'm not in a great mood (typically the case on my 1 night per week that I am exposed to television), so forgive me, but it's not the insignificant people or their labels, it's the mentality. It's part of the problem, it is the problem. It is the decay. I also think the word disgusting fits.

Delete, delete, delete. Rant over, I promise.

High_noon .... I couldn't possibly agree more.
 
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Creek_Stomper said:
This. A thousand times, this. I get called a hipster all the time because of the way I dress. I wear what I wear because I find it comfortable and stylish. I don't see it any different than when someone wears camo on any occasion they aren't hunting, which is all the time for plenty of people that bemoan "hipsters" wearing things because of trendiness. Camo and carhartt's are trendy in some circles. Just not mine.

I wear slim-fit jeans because they are more comfortable for me. I'm a slim guy and I feel like I'm swimming in anything else.
I wear plaid flannel because I need something warm about that's the design it comes in.
I DO wear suspenders, because they work better for me than a belt.
And once in awhile you'll see me carrying an axe while wearing all of this. Not because I'm some sort of empty shell searching for meaning. But because my dad taught me a couple bucks was worth spending to turn someone's trash into a treasure.

But to Hell with all that, I'm a hipster because what you can see fits into a category you're comfortable with, something you have a word for. Doesn't matter at all who I actually am as a person.

American society demands everyone be put into a neat little category. It's disgusting.
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i have some basic corporate drag. it's basically the assumed uniform. there's not a lot of variation, unless you're into stuffy suits, and there's a whole world there. but in this society of mine, it means shoes, pants, shirt with a collar. minimum. period. full stop. if you have a sports jacket, all the better.

what gets me is that the women folks can wear that, or they can wear leggings/jeggings, a flouncy mini-shirt, and a silk blouse, and that's okay too. or a range. freedom!

in the real world... men get a few more variations. there are classic patterns though. esp from the trades. but you can mix it up. shorts and jams. more freedom in shoes. no collared shirts. hats! but in typical USA society, there are still vast limitls. women can wear everything we wear, not a second glance, and a HELL of a lot more.

so, it's no wonder men have identity issues. we're boxed in a lot of ways. because while we are expected to have male roles, what those are don't mean what they mean.

why typical dressing style hasn't changed a lot in a very long time. everything comes around and around. now i'm a hipster? in five years, i might be considered a hippy woods guy. in five more years, who know, it might even be considered classic. then it'll be back to working class guy again. leggings though? mmm. yeah. nobody should wear those in public.

but yeah, lumber sexuals are funny :D
 
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