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Did Somebody Say Macho? by Zack 'Geist Editor' Parsons (Something Awful) takes on the daunting task of creating an objective scale determining any given person’s “Macho-ness”.
The macho-factor is a 2-dimensional matrix defined along the Swayze-Eastwood Axis and the Shatner-Kressley Axis (Kressley is the dude from “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”, who, apparently, is the cultural opposite of a guy who “was probably watching re-runs of “TJ Hooker” when his wife drowned in the pool”).
There is, of course, a helpful questionnaire to help you find your own place in the chart. There are two sections, one each for determining your co-ordinates on the two axes.
Here’s a sample question from the Swayze-Eastwood Axis:
When you see a beautiful woman you…
I know it’s not right, but (4) had me rolling on the floor.