Lifting weights is gay. Not to say that being gay necessarily means that you are by definition not manly. I am sure that there is nothing manlier that grabbing two handfuls of back hair and plowing another dude’s stink-hole. But Zach Parks is clearly talking specifically about heterosexual manliness. And I say going to the gym and lifting wieghts is GAY!
This muscle bound jerk gets pissed at all the pussy spring-break kids in the gym and then goes back to standing with his crotch over his buddy’s face yelling "DO IT!!!", while the his "lifting-partner" squirms and whimpers trying to get off one more rep on the bench press. Then they both go pose in the mirror-wall for an hour, discussing how to even out their glutes, contemplating whether their delts are in proportion to their lats, copping feels of each others firm pecs, and complimenting each other on the progress they are making "Blasting their quads." Next they hit the shower to shave off all their body hair and brag about the all bitches they bang, while trying not to look at each others packages. Finally, Zach heads home to watch Jean Claude Van Damme movies and read muscle magazines that are filled with full page spreads of greased up dudes in Speedos. Fucking GAY!!!!!
When I think of a manly man, I think of Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and Have Not." That fucker was a 110 pound, scotch drinking, chain smoking, gun shooting, boat captianing can of whoop-ass. That bad ass never saw a gym and he didn't need one. He was strong enough to smack any women back into her senses, pull in a giant marlin onto his boat, steady a shot gun on the open sea, and pistol-whip any fat, beret wearing French dude into submission. And you don't need to be any stronger than that.
When manly men do have muscles, they don't get them from working out in the gym. Manly men's muscles aren't sculpted in the gym because of vanity and body worship. Their muscles are functional tools that are built from working on heavy machinery, chopping down trees, chucking bowling balls, smashing shit with sledgehammers, and carrying women off to bed. I am thinking of Clint Eastwood in "Any which way but lose" here. Philo Beddoe was a muscular manly-man. But his muscles came from pulling transmissions out of trucks, bare-knuckle boxing, smacking around mob men, and wrestling an orangutan, not from doing swat thrusts and eating protein shakes.
In summary, Pecs are boobs and lifting weights is not manly.