Men who look like old lesbians.

People have been looking like women for millennia. And sometimes, those people have actually been women. But every once in a while those people are men, and when that happens gosh it's funny. Which is why a blog like men who look like old lesbians exists.

It's an odd form of humor, maybe better classified as "high school" humor, the type of humor that makes people laugh when someone farts or when they fall down, or when they fall down and then fart. It is unexpected, something engrained in the vast majority of the population that tells us that men probably shouldn't look like women. They should probably look like men. And when that doesn't happen we laugh. Or I guess that's why we laugh. All I know for sure is that a lot of people laugh. And that strikes me as some kind of plot.

I know that through the ages, artists have idealized the feminine form, even when that form is actually a man, and maybe not a lot has changed. The most fashionable men I know here in Nashville actually wear a lot of women's clothes, and the men on the old lesbians website aren't normal Joes. They're guys that have in most cases spent a lot of time and money cultivating this look that trends towards femininity (hence, their inclusion on that website).

I've been told that the movie Fight Club is about the emasculation of the modern man, something the main character, Tyler Durden, blames on the fact that "we're a generation of men raised by women." The movie portrays men pitted against the reality of a cultural shift that seems to induce a loss of identity and gender. Masculinity is lost, and the characters of the movie rage against this vacuum by pursuing stereotypes of hyper-masculinity.

The men who look like old lesbians site isn't a whole lot different, though it provokes a response of laughter rather than beating the crap out of each other. In either case, we see picture of a culture that is wrestling with gender roles and norms when the reigning wisdom states that Equality supersedes any conversation about the differences between the sexes. And so our culture trends us towards one sex, a slightly feminized, slightly masculinized person (and keeps us from using male/female pronouns in general applications).

Anyway, maybe we're just creating a new male archetype, men who look like old lesbians. Which begs the question of discovering the men and women who love the men who look like old lesbians. What do they look like? Either way, I'm sure lesbians have enough stereotypes to fight without men jumping in and ruining everything.