The vast majority of modern martial arts originate from outside of the US. So it depends on how a teacher approaches it.
When I studied Karate, it was very Americanized. There was zero emphasis on culture or tradition. It was 100% about physical training. This is an environment that fosters right wing thought. (Not that I recall any of it at the time, but if it happened it wouldn’t be out of place.)
When I studied Kung Fu, there was a massive emphasis on culture and tradition. We saluted a picture of my Sifu’s Sifu (my grandmaster) who was from China, every time we arrived at the studio and when we left. We were taught the origin of the styles we learned. It was very respectful toward its Chinese origins.
(Not that it mattered that one was Karate and the other was Kung Fu, it was just about the approaches each teacher took.)
Or another way to look at it is to think of the original Karate Kid film. The Cobra Kai dojo was very right wing and Americanized. “Mercy is for the weak” might as well be a MAGA slogan. While the relationship between Mr. Miyagi and Daniel was one of mutual respect for each other and their different backgrounds and cultures. Very left wing.
So Mark Zuckerberg’s masculinity was threatened until he took up martial arts? So marrying a classmate from Harvard and having three children with her wasn’t enough? Founding a company and website used by billions of people wasn’t enough? A fortune of roughly 200 billion dollars wasn’t enough? I have none of those and I’m secure enough in my masculinity.
The fact that you’re secure in your masculinity is the reason why you haven’t felt the need to do all that shit in a futile effort to prove something to yourself.
A guy who voluntarily looks like Richard Simmons going all MR is incongruous. He needs to deal with his own issues before trying to “correct” everyone else.
Money clearly makes a person stupid. I would not be surprized to hear “zuck off” become common parlance.
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Thank you for answering it. The Two-Letter Acronym* is just so versatile, I couldn’t be sure.
*Hey, is there a three-letter acronym for two-letter acronym? I feel like 2LA would work better than TLA. TLA is so bound up with Three-Letter Acronym that it would just be too confusing.
Around this Board what I more often see is “MRA” - “Men’s Rights Activist/Advocate.”
But Zuck’s deal sounds to me more like a degeneration if the “Iron John” trend from back at the end of last century. Sort of a Tim Allen caricature from when his schtick was funny.
Yes, he was. I saw him doing stand-up on TV years before Home Improvement and his routines were hilarious. I still remember when he used to tell stories of his grandpa who he called “terminally cool” because he had a tremor that made him shake like a guy at a club bopping to a dance beat. And he did an impression of his grandpa getting pissed off at a modern car that talked to him.
“The door is ajar. The door is ajar.”
“Yeah… And my foot’s a duck!”
Just thinking about it cracks me up.
Bob Saget was also really funny doing standup back in the day, though his humor was also pretty raunchy at times.
Both comedians got on family-friendly sitcoms and had to remake their image to be more universally appealing and in the process stopped being funny.
(Though Bob Saget’s brief part in Half Baked was funny the way his standup used to be before Full House.)
I can’t find a clip, but he also had a small roll on a show called Huff. IIRC, he played an actor referred to as (or maybe on a show called) “America’s Favorite Dad” while that character’s real life persona was much raunchier than you’d guess based on how he portrays himself on camera.
In other words, he was basically playing himself. Danny Tanner in front of the camera but a totally different person off camera (even the Full House bloopers get dirtier than you’d expect).
Turns out that when you get rid of loss prevention, lock all your merchandise in glass cages that have to be opened by an employee, and also cut staffing hours to the bone so there’s never an employee to be found when you need one, it’s hard to sell stuff.
