My Dad once made a crack about a pic of a stack of cases of Two Brothers beer, next to a stack of cases of Lego, at work, that I put on Facebook because the combination was too good to be believed. He called it girly beer, which I really didn't understand at first. He was yanking my chain, but what I figured out talking to him is that it's about old-fashioned notions of class that haven't kept up with changes in real life.
"Manly" is a proxy for appealing to working class men, as opposed to effete rich guys (the middle class barely exists in this construct). That also means it can't be manly if it's more expensive than the average option. It's also not manly if you found out about it in college or after.
"Manly" is a proxy for appealing to working class men, as opposed to effete rich guys (the middle class barely exists in this construct). That also means it can't be manly if it's more expensive than the average option. It's also not manly if you found out about it in college or after.