# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/21 "2011-09-03T04:18:33Z")
It sounds to me that us guys in Los Angeles drive what we want and eat what we want without giving a shit what other people think. It’s kind of sad to think there are large swathes of the country where men are so self-conscious and insecure about their masculinity that they have to reinforce it by hiding when they’re offered a cupcake. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/22 "2011-09-03T04:33:24Z")
Yeah, Nashville here…where even us women ride motorcycles and drive pick-ups. (I do love me some sushi, however, and we have a couple of cool cupcake shops here) ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/23 "2011-09-03T05:23:49Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > It sounds to me that us guys in Los Angeles drive what we want and eat what we want without giving a shit what other people think. It’s kind of sad to think there are large swathes of the country where men are so self-conscious and insecure about their masculinity that they have to reinforce it by hiding when they’re offered a cupcake. Um, Lou Ferrigno is a lot closer to being a Los Angelino than the rest of the country. Just saying. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/24 "2011-09-03T06:11:01Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > 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. Detroit’s number one form of gainful employment is probably violent crime. What’s manlier than that? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/25 "2011-09-03T06:45:37Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Yet ironically enough, being on a Board of Manliness heavily detracts from your own manliness quotient. You better not say that when Judy Gold is around. She’ll tear you up. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/26 "2011-09-03T06:45:45Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Samurai](http://thedailymind.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/takenori_samurai.jpg) ate sushi, arranged flowers, wrote poetry, and chopped off heads. Yes, but did they scratch their balls? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/27 "2011-09-03T14:58:22Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > Yes, but did they scratch their balls? Very carefully. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/28 "2011-09-03T15:09:51Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Samurai](http://thedailymind.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/takenori_samurai.jpg) ate sushi, arranged flowers, wrote poetry, and chopped off heads. Didn’t they also wear socks with birkenstocks or footsie pajamas or something? These were not manly men. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/29 "2011-09-03T16:12:16Z")
“Registered pickups within the city”, you say? Surely frivolous pickup trucks (never driven off-road, not used for hauling things) would be worth negative points, wouldn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/30 "2011-09-03T16:13:59Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Um, Lou Ferrigno is a lot closer to being a Los Angelino than the rest of the country. > > Just saying. And his macho cred compromised by his connection to that tune “The Lonely Man” ---
**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 3, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/31 "2011-09-03T19:16:50Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > I assume that “manly” foods would be hamburgers, steaks, the hearts of one’s enemies, etc. Yes, their list of manly things included steakhouses. No mention of hearts of enemies, though. > [@Alessan](#): > > Ninjas eat sushi. They not manly enough for you? Game over. Sushi = Bad ass. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/32 "2011-09-03T19:26:44Z")
Nah. As far as badasses go, ninjas _are_ sort of girly men. They’re nimble and sneaky and fast, they wear black and slink around in the dark, and they throw stars and shit at you. It’s like they kick your ass through speed and trickery rather than straight up badassedness. So it makes sense they’d be sushi eaters rather than raw steak eaters like real men. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/33 "2011-09-03T19:44:15Z")
I’m reasonably cautious about making Lou Ferrigno angry (I hear you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry) but is body building really a manly activity? What’s manly about closely watching your diet, shaving your body hair, and competing in beauty pageants? They should have gone with a power lifter instead. EDIT: There’s a woman on the board of manliness! Well, now they’ve lost all credibility as an academic institution. 😉 ---
**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 3, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/34 "2011-09-03T19:59:06Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Nah. As far as badasses go, ninjas _are_ sort of girly men. They’re nimble and sneaky and fast, they wear black and slink around in the dark, and they throw stars and shit at you. It’s like they kick your ass through speed and trickery rather than straight up badassedness. So it makes sense they’d be sushi eaters rather than raw steak eaters like real men. 😉 While I fervently disagree, I cannot help but chuckle at referring to ninjas as “girly” because “throw stars and shit at you.” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/35 "2011-09-03T21:52:39Z")
Yeah, you’ll be laughing out of your newly drilled asshole when you find yourself impaled by a throwing rainbow. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/36 "2011-09-03T22:17:31Z")
> [@Teufelblitz](#): > > What the hell happened in Memphis that we jumped up 24 spots? > > ETA: Sgt. Slaughter FTW! Real men die in Memphis straining at stool. The West Coast just found out. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/37 "2011-09-04T00:11:50Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yeah, you’ll be laughing out of your newly drilled asshole when you find yourself impaled by a throwing rainbow. See there? Even Ninjas’ weapons have girly names. And they don’t kill you either. They just cut you up…kind of like fingernails. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/38 "2011-09-04T06:39:43Z")
Wait a fucking minute. Don’t ninjas wear footsie pajamas too? Game over man, game over. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/39 "2011-09-04T07:16:28Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > “Registered pickups within the city”, you say? Surely frivolous pickup trucks (never driven off-road, not used for hauling things) would be worth negative points, wouldn’t it? The only manly pickup trucks are unregistered, un-insured, broken down trucks sitting on the front yard, the classic Southern Indiana lawn style. The more rusted, derelict trucks in the yard, the more manly the owner of the property. If you see a yard with ten or eleven junked trucks, chances are the owner has balls as big as coconuts. Bonus points if there’s a mean dawg patrolling the yard. ---
**Author:** ![Rex\_Goliath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rex\_Goliath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Goliath)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990/40 "2011-09-04T07:41:50Z")
> [@Fretful\_Porpentine](#): > > I give up, what’s so feminine about sushi restaurants? As we learned from [Ron Swanson’s pyramid of greatness], fish meat is “practically a vegetable.” Not manly.]([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAQ4yNgXelk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAQ4yNgXelk)) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/los-angeles-city-of-little-girly-men/594990.md?page=3)