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The Manliness Gap? Scottish Men Selected As World’s Most Manly

This week, Atlantic Magazine ran a story on Rick Perry, Manly Man — a piece exploring how Perry is known to emphasize his manliness — both physically and verbally. The magazine considers how well the macho image will play across the political spectrum. However, that may be the least of the problems for the Perry camp. Word has now reached our shores of the selection of the Scots, not the Americans, as the world’s most manly specimens. Now, I take nothing from the Scots. It takes a lot of guts to wear kilts in a cold, wet climate. However, the world’s manliest? Followed close by the English? I fully expect this to become a major issue in the presidential election: the manliest gap.

I’ll give you William Wallace but Mel Gibson cut a slightly more buff image than the original. Yet, it appears that some Scot yelling “Hey! Mukker!” while supporting a sporran remains the Siren call for women around the world.

In the poll, Australian men came in second and the English came in third. Russia came in fourth — no doubt influenced by Putin’s campaign to become an action figure doll. American men were at the bottom of the list. Putin appears to be viewed as more manly than Perry.

It appears that Mr. Bean is simply too much for Americans to secure third place.

Source: Daily Record

27 thoughts on “The Manliness Gap? Scottish Men Selected As World’s Most Manly”

  3. AY I thought you were living in another state when Richards was governor. Don’t think it was her arrogance that cost her the election. The tide had started to shift and her heart was not longer in it. She did not run a good campaign the second time and the Bush name loomed large.

  4. You know SWMom….I did not say she was not a good governor…I said, the problem I had with Ann was….She was certainly better than Bush…no question…but her arrogance cost her the governorship and allowed Bush to become Governor…I won’t say you did not know her personally…but I was intermixed with the State Democratic Party at that time….Therefore I had a better understanding of the inner workings of what was going on….She was as charismatic as they came…and when she wanted something she was hell bent on getting it…

    I think a lot of folks on the religious whether to the right or not gave up on her when….1) she signed the Lottery Bill and 2) I do believe Waco was under her watch at the time….which as you are aware was a total political nightmare….Didn’t she call Ft Hood and demand that they assist? If I recall Clark was the general at the time….just saying…another good democrat….

  5. I liked Anne Richards a lot. Texas was a better place before W and his minions took over. -Swarthmore

    So did I, Swarthmore mom. And with regard to your comment about Texas, the same could be said about the whole of America — “W” was one wrong turn that has cost this country dearly…

  6. I liked Anne Richards a lot. Texas was a better place before W and his minions took over.

  8. “Hey! Mukker!” while supporting a sporran remains the Siren call for women around the world.
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    🙂
    problem wit dat?

  9. Mike,

    I knew Ann and Bob well enough to have attended a few parties of theirs when she was a Travis County Commissioner…

    The problem I had with Ann was her desire for power….when she decided to run for a state wide office she used the Texas Department of Treasury as her springboard…I am not sure if I have said this before but an aging gentleman was running the elected office…Warren G. Harding….she campaigned about him misusing his office for political gain….using people on his staff for his election on state time…yadda….yadda…yadda…like she didn’t do the same damn thing….

    Here is a synoptic:

    State Treasurer
    After the incumbent Texas State Treasurer, Warren G. Harding (no relation to the former U.S. president of the same name), became mired in legal troubles in 1982, Richards won the Democratic nomination for that post. Winning election against a Republican opponent in November that year, Richards became the first woman elected to statewide office in more than fifty years. In 1986, she was re-elected treasurer without opposition. Richards was a popular and proactive treasurer who worked to maximize the return of Texas state investments. Richards said that when she took office, the Treasury Department was run something like a 1930s country bank, with deposits that didn’t earn interest.[citation needed] At the 1984 Democratic National Convention, Richards delivered one of the nominating speeches for nominee Walter Mondale, and she campaigned actively for the Mondale/Ferraro ticket in Texas, even though President Ronald Reagan enjoyed great popularity in her state.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Richards

  10. They sit in Dyn Eidyn downing the mead then toss the caber to bridge the chasm and enter the battle.

  11. AY,

    I don’t doubt that at all, but you do know that was a rumor her opponents spread. I had to mention her though, because my point was that to get elected in Texas you must portray yourself as manly.

  12. Ann Richards was anything but lesbian….That I can assure you…She may have had balls the size of Alaska…and could equally be as cold as the Klondike….but never a lesbian…never….She liked men….and men younger than her…a cougar she could have been…..

  13. The definition of “manly” is a stupid one in any context. What does it mean?
    A man is by definition someone who has a penis, except if you’re trans gender. Usually, the connotation is to be tough and heterosexual. I’ve known gay guys though who were very tough. Sorry to be a party pooper, but all these male stereotypes annoy me. I cry, love Broadway Show Tunes,
    Judy Garland, was in more high school fistfights than most boxers, prefer woman sexually, prefer the company of women to males, love to gossip, know sports well, like interior decorating, Chick Flicks, Westerns and all kinds of “shoot-em-ups”.

    What am I? Someone with a penis who has complexities and contradictions.
    Just like all the rest of males. As for Rick Perry portraying himself as manly, of course he does, you don’t get to be Governor of Texas (discount Anne Richards who was portrayed as a lesbian by her enemies) without acting manly. Texas culture needs to think itself as manly and that’s too bad because they live in illusion.

  14. raff,

    A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do…cover that with the cod piece please…it gets cold over there…

  17. Lets hope he wears a cod piece….then again…maybe one could not tell the difference…

  19. Let me tell you, lassies and laddies. Ye haven’t been truly dressed up until ye go to a formal function dressed in kilt, Prince Charlie vest an’ jacket, wi’ a plaid o’er ye shoulder. Go to a reception dressed in full Highland regalia and stand amongst the penguin look-alikes in tuxedos–see who gets the attention from the ladies and gay gentlemen alike. Heh!

    My grandson, the one who died last March, loved to wear his kilt. I have a photo of him in his first kilt at about age 4, marching in the Parade of Tartans at the Highland Games. He told me later that when he wore his kilt, he, “feels like a manly man.”

  20. Seems the more a guy needs to be seen as “manly” the more likely it is they are not actually manly. It is good for the political image though. Nothing like a tough talking cowboy to make the kids think ‘daddy’ has it all taken care of.

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