# A Question of Manliness...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-manliness/596134>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 13, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-manliness/596134 "2011-09-13T03:21:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-manliness/596134/21 "2011-09-13T18:12:07Z")

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I don’t see any issue with the situation as described.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-manliness/596134/22 "2011-09-13T18:15:08Z")

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Another vote for it being weird if not necessarily unmanly. I agree with what others have said - it should have been all real family members or all models.

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**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-manliness/596134/23 "2011-09-13T23:57:10Z")

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It seems unusual, but not that big a deal. My thinking is, he probably would have preferred to use models for all of them if he could have afforded it. And he couldn’t use himself in the picture for whatever reason (being pictured elsewhere in the brochure is a good enough reason for that).

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**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2011, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-of-manliness/596134/24 "2011-09-14T03:06:22Z")

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> [@rachelellogram](#):
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> {snip}And he couldn’t use himself in the picture for whatever reason…

Maybe “John” was the photographer for the faux-family photo? And maybe hunky hoax hubby took the picture of “John”? But seriously, folks…

I find the situation a little odd, but not emasculating.

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