“macho” is relative to culture. I did …

Comment posted Indian Boys Dressed Up As Girls by Can’t Beat ‘Em Join ‘Em.

“macho” is relative to culture. I did not find Indian men, in general, to appear very masculine at all.

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• I think the men in America who obsess over being “manly” are actually insecure and maybe even possibly gay in denial. Meaning, they may be attracted to other men but afraid for people to find out so they come off as homophobic. Men who are confident in their masculinity do not need to make overt statements about it.

  It’s like some of them are so afraid of appearing girlish that they even have this concept called “man food”. What the hell is “man food”??? Food is food for goodness sake!

• Its common for baby’s and toddlers to sport lots of kajal in India, not matter the sex. Kajal is not a feminin nor masculine thing. I’ve even seen quite a few adult males sporting it. It is supposed to be good for your eyes.

  Traditionally men would play womens’ roles in religiously based dance dramas, due to sex segregation, and there are some dance troups that carry on this tradition til date, especially with regards to Krishna Lila performances.

  And sometimes if a couple wanted a boy and got a girl, they would dress her up as a boy (sometimes Krishna as someone pointed out above). I’ve seen it.

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• How Much Does House Size Matter?
  And don’t even get me started on the heavily processed “duram wheat”. Can we say “simple carbohydrates” people? Sugar. Sugar. Sugar. And that demographic often gets diabetes.
• How Much Does House Size Matter?
  Food stamps don’t cover restaurants, but people with food stamps have some cash on them as well, sometimes plenty of it. Especially the single baby mammas know how to work the system quite well.

  Mac and cheese in a box is full of chemicals. KRAFT cheese is probably more chemical than cheese. It tastes like plastic. Eating stuff like that on a regular (and i do mean REGULAR) basis, combined with the type of low activity lifestyle these people lead, is what causes them to be obese.

• Adapting to and Retaining Indian Customs
  “Afghans , Iranians and Lebanese are white and if Indian men are so bad why aren’t these young , white Afghan , Iranian and Lebanese women eve teased or molested . Why are only European women molested ?”
  ………………………………………………….

  How do you know that the Afghanis, Iranians and Lebanese women are not being harrassed on the buses, trains and in the bazaars? I can guarantee you that they are, just like MANY MANY Indian women are harrassed on a daily basis. It’s NOT JUST EUROPEAN WOMEN.

  In fact, Indian women are now fighting back against “eve teasing”:

  http://blog.blanknoise.org/

• Adapting to and Retaining Indian Customs
  “Cases of eve teasing , molesation , groping etc . can be minimized if women dress themselves decently ( No skin show please ! )”

  Not true!!!!!!!!!!

  In India I was harrassed all the time and I dressed ultra-conservatively (more than even conservative Indian women). Same goes for the other women in my area – all conservative dressers, even they don’t look good at all and they are being harrassed – young and old alike!

  In the West I dress less conservative and nobody bothers me at all.

  It’s because Indian men are sexually frustrated, even if they are married.

• How Much Does House Size Matter?
  “you’d have to hit the gym like guys do.”……………

  Not true. Most guys, at least here, go in for heavy weights. Women who are looking to tone and define go in for light weights combined with cardio like in step aerobics/pump combo classes. The weights used are between 3 and 20 pounds only.

  I’m not denying the obesity epidemic in USA. It happens to a prosperous people. Ironically, even the “poor” people are fat here – often fatter than the wealthy. That is due to the type of food they buy with their food stamps (Macaroni and Cheese is always a favorite), owing to a lack of knowledge about proper nutrition, and of course, they are often the ones chowing down at Mickey D’s or Kentucky Fried Chicken.

  People of African descent have the best physiques, owing to their natural muscle tone, of any people in the world. However, they are the most obese group in the USA owing to their lifestyle choices and eating habits.

  White people are quickly catching up.

  What needs to be done is all the fast food drive throughs need to be shut down en masse.

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