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>Manly men
We're meeeeennnn innnnnn tights. WE'RE BUTCH!
I wouldn't say it's rageworthy, but it is kind of silly in a metrosexual sense. On one hand, yay for folks actually getting out and doing something, even if it is kind of a superficial, pass-through experience. But at least they're doing something. And while there's nothing wrong with "glamping," I think they kind of robbed themselves of a deeper experience. They basically took the city life outdoors instead of really embracing a kind of simplicity that puts things in perspective. Not that you have to go all survivalist when you go outdoors. Nothing wrong with bringing a few creature comforts. Buuuuuuut I personally think it could have been a more meaningful and transformative self-learning experience if they had been a little less GQ/Esquire/Playboy in its execution. The narrator talks about being "immersed in the wild," but it seems like they mostly were just kind of passively passing through it. He talks about "hard lessons topped by pain," but one has to question how much those happen in what appears to be a somewhat insulated experience.
Ultimately, though, we weren't there. So we can't say for sure. I'm sure it was meaningful to those guys and they got a lot of pleasure out of it. More than anything, I think any perception on it suffers from being filtered through the narrator's overly dramatic lens.
It looks like they had fun and got something out of the experience. (Saged just to not bump a second time because I edited a little.)