Everybody knows that Real Manly Men walk around flexed up like douches at the gym with Imaginary Lat Syndrome, barking like dogs to everybody who will listen about how big and bad they are, never admitting to being anything less than perfect, constantly feeling like they've got something to prove to the world and being afraid to be revealed for what they really are, always keeping that wall up, and otherwise never having actual human thoughts. Yep, that definitely sounds like a "real man" to me. Btw, women especially go for that type of guy too and definitely can't see right through it a mile away. Definitely.
You know what actual masculinity is? Freedom. It's the freedom of doing and saying whatever you want and realizing that whatever it is, it's fine and it's masculine because it's you doing it, and you yourself are masculine. The dude has the balls to admit his faults and worries to an open crowd of that many people because he's got nothing to prove to anybody and he knows he's top shit, whether or not their music sucks now (it does). But he's still fronting the biggest metal band of all time. I think it would be funny to see just about any one of you guys in this forum stand on stage in front of 60,000 people and say anything, much less something that personal.
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