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[darth_cabal]

Poll Things that make Caisha wonder as she drives home from work:

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[darth_cabal]

Actually, I left it vague because I couldn't decide. :(

[tl__dr]

I picked "man's man" because I don't really meet people IRL who match either of these terms so I was visualizing them as fictional archetypes, and, well, fictionally the first tends to be really freaking homoerotic in all sorts of fun, unintentional ways. :D

[darth_cabal]

The unintentional part is the best bit!

[therealdcv]

No question at all: Man's man. Men say what they think and do what they want. Gentlemen are much more passive-aggressive. Don't give me that shit, just tell me like it is.

[darth_cabal]

My biggest problem is that a lot of people who TALK about being gentlemen...aren't. And don't seem to realize it.

[angua9]

Are you kidding? Jeeves and Bunter for the win!

[darth_cabal]

If I were ever to become rich enough to afford a butler, I think half the interview process would consist of asking applicants to do their best impression of Jeeves.

[thirdprophet]

Man's man. Man's man can still be polite and courteous, but he lives by the MANLAW and doesn't prance around like a little three-testicled fuckweasel like the gentleman's gentleman does. When I hear Man's man, I hear the kind of guy who might be crude and brutish but gets shit done, then goes home and drinks a cold one. The gentleman's gentleman returns the mental image of some monocled idiot in pantaloons, flailing about and sipping tea.

[darth_cabal]

Psh! Jeeves got more done before 6am than most man's men do all day!

[thirdprophet]

Then he's a man's man in disguise. He just WANTS everyone to think he's some pansy-waisted painthuffer, but really, he's memorized the manlaws and lives by them every day, and is secretly a NINJA!

[darth_cabal]

Well, he DOES wear a lot of black. And he's crafty.