Hater Synthesis 1 — BodyBuilding — Replica or Real Manliness? — Summary
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In the world of muscle and iron people see a way to reclaim their manliness. Most don’t even realize it, but this is one of the main driving forces behind the so-called relentless pursuit of muscle. You seek what you didn’t have in the past. You see the iron as the role model you never had. You want an environment where you can finally be a warrior instead of a rat. There’s a strong desire in you to express yourself, and the weight-room seems like a plausible solution.
The gym is one of the few places where the difference between males and females is still distinguishable. Men are naturally stronger than women and no amount of value twisting can change this fact. The only way women can beat men in the iron game is by taking steroids and mutating into hermaphrodites. Some do it.
Once you have been sucked into the muscle realm, you begin to lift like that’s your only mission in life. The weight room becomes a battleground where you are the fighting hero. Bitches can’t match you even if they try real hard. They may be doing CrossFit and facebooking about it, but they are still on a lower level.
Furthermore, lifting gives you something that very few people have today — physical strength above the average level. Nowadays you don’t even have to be amazing to get above the threshold of mediocrity where most humanoids reside. Through training, you can reach a state allowing you to reconnect with life itself. When you’re in-between the weight and the ground you are alive. You are real. There’s no falseness. You no longer feel guilty when you call yourself a man.
But then comes the inevitable question — is it too good to be true?
Can you really regain your manhood by marrying a barbell and renting a gym for your body and soul?
Can you escape the dance of the modern humanoid through a lifelong battle against gravity? Is the feeling of masculinity real or simply a replica, a simulation?
I am sorry, but the road of iron does not guarantee more manliness.
You may have big muscles and look like the action heroes from the movies, but inside you are still an insecure little boy. In fact, you are even less of a man than you were before because now you are a shaved slave bowing down to the protein shake. You are afraid that you will lose your muscle mass. You love your armor of muscle, and you are not willing to give it up easily. I understand. I would hate to lose something I have worked for too. But there is a difference between a fear that mobilizes you and irrational corrosive anxiety eating you from the inside out to the point where you are nothing but a frightened subject.
Regardless of what the gurus say, you don’t have to be a lifter to be a real man. Manliness is bigger than a bench press, a squat or a deadlift. It’s a collection of life principles, qualities and a mindset. It’s not a weightlifting competition.
Few lifters comprehend this fact. Many iron addicts wrongfully assume that their manhood is a number on the bar. Accepting this false statement is a recipe for becoming a king in the gym and a slave in the real world.
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