[DanaC]

Originally Posted by the_answers

Exactly - masculinity isn't static, it varies.
Some men are more like women than men e.g. in the way they bitch.
To be fair he might be boring as hell but you don't see plainman alpha male Sam bitching.
Let's face facts, gay/bi people often act more like women in their bitching/gossiping than men.

Sam is the boring alpha male.
The twins are hardly out of nappies.
Yes Callum bitched but he appeared mixed up in his head.

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So not what I meant by masculinity and femininity not being static....

What I meant was that Dan and Dex are just as male, they just present different masculinities. There isn't a single model of masculinity to which 'real men' adhere; and non-conformity to a single model of masculinity does not make someone 'not a real man'.