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The other thing is that even if some guys claim that men who don't like sport are probably gay, there is a way broader scope in what is considered male, if not manly, interests and behaviors.Remember that debate about tomboys? I've always believed tomboys as a concept don't really make sense because men and women can be into things that aren't traditionally subscribed to their gender. But not these guys, for them it's the exact opposite: If you aren't into "manly" things you're legally a woman and vice versa.
Wanted to be a teacher? Well, younger kids are out, but 8 plus, you can be a schoolmaster. If you really want to teach young kids, its often way easier for a male teacher to become a head of a primary school.
Want to cook? You become a chef. You can make the fairest of fairy cakes with pink icing and wings but they still won't call being a chef a womanly pursuit.
Florist? Sure. Flowers are poofy, but you want a man to recommend the right ones to gain access to your girls knickers.
Hell, it was even not unacceptable for a man to be a dressmaker, provided he made men's clothes as well.
Cut hair? Well barbers were always men's men. Where you got a shave and a Durex for the weekend.
Ladies hair? Well even if you are somehow straight and want to cut ladies hair, the few straight ones I have known have always been dripping in gash.
And not for beard purposes either.
The other male interests that are not sport or guns or cars, well, its shit like science and rocks and, maths. These are not exactly girly things. And of course, computers.
While of course it was not reciprocated, with girls liking manly things considered unusual and there being less avenues for girls to do "manly" stuff in acceptable ways, it still was tolerated and accepted when they did.
At least in western society.
