Have you visited the Wikipedia page for the term ‘man’? Well if you haven’t you have also not seen the representative image of the guy who is supposed to represent the archetype of all of the men on earth. Someone on Twitter did the same and it started a conversation around this:
What distinguishes man from woman? What is the etymology of the word? What defines masculinity? These are some of things that the Wikipedia entry explains and for further reading suggests ‘gender differences’, ‘patriarchy’, ‘sexism’ etc. The photo accompanying the write-up is this one.
Someone was looking up the term ‘man’ and this is what they found. So amused were they that they tweeted about it and started off an amusing thread.
The photo is titled ‘a man’ to remove any doubts that may have cropped up.
This commentator wanted to know how and why the original poster arrived upon the ‘man’ page. Pat came the reply – I wanted more info on "men"
Someone went and looked up the ‘man’s’ profile and concluded that this is a Malayali man.
Someone on the thread asked: how did the original poster know that this is a Mallu? Apparently it is the haircut that gives it away, according to this Twitter user.
This commentator has some sort of checklist that is supposed to help identify the Malayali dude. The lack of Rayban glasses however raises doubts according to this tongue-in-cheek comment.
And thought it got funnier and funnier!
This commentator seemed to take umbrage that everyone seemed to find this so funny.
This commentator made it clear that as far as men go, Malayali guys are much nicer than a lot of other men. As stereotypes go, this may be offensive to other men; but also as stereotypes go, it is kind of true as well.
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