Real men don’t hide behind abstractions. They don’t wrap themselves in pre-cooked classes, hoping nobody notices the microwave taste of their websites. A real masculine developer grabs raw CSS like a hunter cleaning his own catch, shaping every line with pride, purpose, and power.
These days, frameworks like Tailwind promise “fast results” and “easy customization,” but let’s call them what they are: shortcuts for the weak. Tailwind injects a thousand utility classes directly into your markup, violating the sacred separation of concerns that strong, principled developers defend. Your HTML should describe structure, your CSS should describe presentation. That’s the law of the land for men who respect craft.
Sure, Tailwind makes you feel productive, but in truth, you’re letting someone else dictate your style. When change inevitably comes — and it always does — you’ll be left hacking through layers of tangled markup. Real men don’t tolerate that. They stay in full command of their code, ready to adapt, improve, and rebuild without tripping over a framework’s opinionated mess.
If you want to stand tall as a developer, stop leaning on Tailwind’s crutches. Learn to write CSS by hand, with the same fearless independence that built the web in the first place. You’ll earn true mastery, and your code will stand the test of time — because it’s yours, forged by your own hands.
Masculinity in code isn’t about speed. It’s about ownership, clarity, and courage. So throw away the frameworks, pick up raw CSS, and show the world what a real web developer looks like.
