Men, Morals, Masculinty and the Military.
Four Americans walk into a bar. Sounds like the beginning of some bad joke doesn’t it? Well, it may have started out as a joke, but manifested into a few lessons about morals and masculinity with some gun-ho US marines. The first thing that I thought was weird, was that one of the American guys was wearing an Australian rugby jersey, even though the game was the night before, and even though the Wallabies had lost badly. Lou, being a friendly bartender who knows that in general Americans tip, asked, “Did you go to the rugby last night?” “No” he responded, “We just got in, but I was in Australia for a couple of months.” Ok cool, sweet as, they sat down at a table, had a few beers and watched a repeat of the game. They were pretty chilled out and relaxed. They tried to spark up some conversations with me whenever I walked past, but an American choosing to back Australia instead of New Zealand so close to the Rugby World Cup doesn’t really have a chance. I had them pegged a...