# Los Angeles: City of Little Girly Men **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 2, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990 "2011-09-02T19:22:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/1 "2011-09-02T19:22:28Z")
At least according to the [Board of Manliness](http://www.americasmanliestcities.com/), which contains Lou Ferrigno, a former WWE star, and someone who’s taken home the title of World Beard Champion twice. Their criteria included things such as “manly occupations,” number of registered pickup trucks within the city, and Harley Davidson dealerships. Emasculating criteria included per capita number of cupcake shops, cafes and sushi restaurants. This cracks me the holy hell up. Here are the rankings, noting their move from last year. Top 5: 1.Nashville, TN (▲ 3 spots) 2.Charlotte, NC (▼ 1 spot) 3.Oklahoma City, OK (▲ 22 spots) 4.Memphis, TN (▲ 24 spots) 5.Columbia, SC (▲ 8 spots) Bottom 5: 46.Rochester, NY (▼ 6 spots) 47.Oakland, CA (No change) 48.San Francisco, CA (▼ 5 spots) 49.San Diego, CA (▼ 7 spots) 50.Los Angeles, CA(▼ 2 spots) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/2 "2011-09-02T19:28:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Emasculating criteria included per capita number of cupcake shops… :eek: Oh no, a new place called “_Nothing Bundt Cakes_” just opened down the street from me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/3 "2011-09-02T19:37:05Z")
As I consider myself a manly man I could give a hoot about manly towns. What towns have the most women! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Teufelblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@Teufelblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teufelblitz)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/4 "2011-09-02T19:49:57Z")
What the hell happened in Memphis that we jumped up 24 spots? ETA: Sgt. Slaughter FTW! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/5 "2011-09-02T20:15:24Z")
Hells yeah, #5! I have a sudden impulse to scratch my balls. I don’t even have any balls! ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/6 "2011-09-02T20:17:45Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > :eek: Oh no, a new place called “_Nothing Bundt Cakes_” just opened down the street from me. 😃 Oh my! ::squee:: That place is simply _delightful_! They have the most adorable little lemon cakes… Shit – I’m not helping LA’s cause, am I? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/7 "2011-09-02T20:21:27Z")
I give up, what’s so feminine about sushi restaurants? ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/8 "2011-09-02T20:28:23Z")
> [@Fretful\_Porpentine](#): > > I give up, what’s so feminine about sushi restaurants? Agreed, what is more manly than eating raw meat? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/9 "2011-09-02T20:37:39Z")
Is there a mullett factor? That’s probably how Nashville beat us. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/10 "2011-09-02T20:38:31Z")
Re: Sushi It’s not so much “feminine” as it is “metrosexual”. At least, that’s the stereotype. I think this has to do with the fact that (1) Fish is just not as stereotypically manly as red meat. Fish and chicken are the meat you eat when you don’t want meat. (2) Sushi is still somewhat confined to metro areas, and hence has at least a whiff of the elite liberal effete-i-ness. (3) Sushi is, at least from the pictures I’ve seen of it, very “arranged”. It’s the flowers-in-a-vase of seafood. I assume that “manly” foods would be hamburgers, steaks, the hearts of one’s enemies, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/11 "2011-09-02T20:48:05Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > the hearts of one’s enemies Oh, man, did I just get an idea for a restaurant chain. ---
**Author:** ![Teufelblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@Teufelblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teufelblitz)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/12 "2011-09-02T20:54:50Z")
> [@Haunted\_Pasta](#): > > Oh, man, did I just get an idea for a restaurant chain. And an assassination service. Talk about fusion cuisine… ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/13 "2011-09-02T21:00:40Z")
And yet I would imagine that catching the fish that goes into sushi would be considered a very manly profession. Go figure. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/14 "2011-09-02T21:38:27Z")
Go California! That just means less sweaty, mulletted, noisy bike riders when I eat my sushi in an outdoor cafe while getting dessert off a cupcake food truck! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/15 "2011-09-02T21:42:30Z")
I get the same vibe from this as I get from the fundie right-wing nutballs loudly decrying the “gay agenda”. Those who smelt it, dealt it. Granted, there are certainly pursuits/interests that can be assessed as more or less masculine than others, but the sheer act of making that sort of assessment is an indication of, if not lack of masculinity, a level of concern about it that doesn’t seem particularly masculine. Not that I give a crap. ::belch:: ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/16 "2011-09-02T22:29:26Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > Re: Sushi > > It’s not so much “feminine” as it is “metrosexual”. > > At least, that’s the stereotype. I think this has to do with the fact that > (1) Fish is just not as stereotypically manly as red meat. Fish and chicken are the meat you eat when you don’t want meat. > (2) Sushi is still somewhat confined to metro areas, and hence has at least a whiff of the elite liberal effete-i-ness. > (3) Sushi is, at least from the pictures I’ve seen of it, very “arranged”. It’s the flowers-in-a-vase of seafood. Ninjas eat sushi. They not manly enough for you? (I happen to live in the city with the 3rd largest number of sushi restuarants of any city in the world, per capita, after Tokyo and New York). ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/17 "2011-09-02T22:52:52Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Hells yeah, #5! I have a sudden impulse to scratch my balls. I don’t even have any balls! There’s a pickup truck accessory for that you know 🙂 To top off the OP, we need a press release with Arnold (you know who) saying “Los Angeles, city of little girly men” in his trademark accent. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/18 "2011-09-03T02:56:53Z")
I cry foul. They gave Detroit down grades because of lack of manly jobs and manly retail stores. But that’s bullshit. Detroit just has no jobs or store at all. I demand they include people laid off from manly jobs and boarded up stores. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/19 "2011-09-03T03:04:08Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > At least according to the [Board of Manliness](http://www.americasmanliestcities.com/), which contains Lou Ferrigno, a former WWE star, and someone who’s taken home the title of World Beard Champion twice. Yet ironically enough, being on a Board of Manliness heavily detracts from your own manliness quotient. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/20 "2011-09-03T03:18:10Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Ninjas eat sushi. They not manly enough for you? [Samurai](http://thedailymind.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/takenori_samurai.jpg) ate sushi, arranged flowers, wrote poetry, and chopped off heads. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990.md?page=2)