Saturday, November 10, 2007

Macho Things I Want to Do

Since I'm on a "macho" streak, I wanted to make a list of the macho things I've always wanted to try. I don't know too many girls who can lay claim to wanting to do these things, at least heterosexual women such as myself. Well, maybe one. My friend, Valerie, who is twice as macho, and is more charged with adrenaline than anyone I know. She prides herself in being a "mangina", owns a Ducati motorcycle, likes to spearfish, and is a hard-core scuba diver. She is also very pretty, which is really surprising combined with her gung-ho personality. OK, here's my macho to-do list:

(1) Own a gun - for my self-protection, of course, but also because it is bad-ass to own a gun
(2) Learn Krav Maga, an Israeli street fighting martial art - of all of the martial arts, I think this one is one of the most lethal
(3) Set off explosives - not for destroying property, but purely for cathartic reasons
(4) Learn how to handle my car expertly - my car (a Mini Cooper) is built for superb handling, and I would like to know where its limits are
(5) Learn how to ride a motorcycle - this I unfortunately tried and failed miserably at. I had even got a motorcycle (Kawasaki Ninja 250) picked out for myself, but got kicked out of class before I could become a terror on the roads
(6) Do pull-ups (see previous post)
(7) Be a good machinist - this was a previous goal of mine, and I was on the verge of being 'apprenticed' by the machinists at work. But I really don't want to do this anymore, because I would rather pay someone else to do this, leaving me to do more design:)

Some observations on being a "macho girl":

  • This tendency seems stronger in Asian women than in Caucasian women. Or perhaps this is just a relic of being in the Silicon Valley, where there are more Asian women than Caucasian women.
  • Society these days encourages women to explore their masculine side, and men to explore their feminine side. My fiance for one, is not ashamed of what can be considered as his feminine interests. He enjoys tending to orchids, cooking, and pruning bonsai trees. His focused interest on these traditinally unmasculine hobbies is perhaps one of the things that attracted me to him.
  • For better of for worse, society has seen women foray further and further into male domain. Women have gained enthusiasm for sports, since the advent of Title IX. They've also been more masculine in their sexual aggression, as expressed by this NY Times article on "Macho Girls". But I have not yet read about a growing movement of women wanting to fire guns, or outman men in the weight-room. I guess we "macho" women are still ahead of the curve.

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