Quote Originally Posted by wildrover View Post
Huh? I was OT...what does that have to do with bugs as a source of protein, or other biblical history?
Oh, it has every thing to do with it. I was not raised eating grasshoppers, and I was told, growing up, that the biblical locus being eaten by John the Baptist were "cacti?", and at the same time we ate lobster and shrimp. To my brain, the lobster is food, and the grasshopper is not.

I can see that. Mostly, I read it as marketing gimmick..."you're not a real man if you don't drink our beer, drive this brand of automobile, partake of these hobbies..."

...most of which have absolutely no bearing on one's manhood whatsoever, and in the worst cases, are bizarre attempts to appeal to masculinity in efforts to encourage emasculation.
And what I have been trained to consider "manhood," may very well not be the same as what, for example, a person from the Isle of Skye considers "manhood" to be; much less what a kilt is or is not.

It's all in your brain and the world your culture creates.