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Whether or not Scotland prevails in the World Cup\u2019s official capacity as a football tournament, the country began winning almost as soon as an estimated 50,000 fans from abroad, known as the Tartan Army, arrived in Boston for the country\u2019s first two matches. Wearing kilts and bearing bagpipes, the Scots marched, chanted, romanced the lasses, cheerfully drained the city of its beer, and were so conscientious about cleaning up after their revelries that, as one city worker commented, they made his job easier than the locals do.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps just as important is that the Tartan Army\u2019s presence can\u2019t help but feel like a rebuttal to the cartoon masculinity here at home. Yes, its kilted, face-painted, bagpipe-toting members can resemble cartoons themselves, but all available reports confirm that the Tartan Army\u2019s humor, humanity and ability to treat women like regular people are as abundant as its capacity for drink.<\/p>\n

That the Scots showed up the natives in both alcohol consumption and good manners came as no surprise to Daniel Euan Henderson, a Glasgow-based content creator known as Daniel the Scotsman. Following his countrymen from afar, Henderson predicts a \u201cHot Scot Summer\u201d and is openly rooting for a World Cup baby boom. (He\u2019s already coined the term \u201cBoston Bairns\u201d for the crop of wee ones he expects the city to see 9 months from now.)<\/p>\n

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One recent video from Henderson explained what Scottish men have over their American counterparts with an anecdote about the time he watched as a young man hit on two young women in an unnamed U.S. bar. The guy\u2019s small talk was pretty standard, he recalls, but when the women declined to accompany him to another bar, \u201cThe switch-up was insane.\u201d In a perfect approximation of a dudebro voice, Henderson says, \u201cHe was like, \u2018Oh my god, why do you guys have to be such bit*hes? Why are you so stuck up like that, bro?\u2019 Any guy saying that to a girl in a bar in Scotland would be kicked out immediately and maybe even battered a wee bit. Because that is just unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments from women in Boston concurred. \u201cThe Scottish men I ran into in Boston were SO respectful and nice that it actually made me remember what it\u2019s like to not have to be my own bouncer in public,\u201d read one. Another called it \u201cbewilderingly nice\u201d to hang with Scots, noting, \u201cEven when they were drunk they were nice, not smarmy.\u201d The Tartan Army has arrived in Miami for the team\u2019s match against Brazil, and its charm offensive appears to be going strong. Whether or not they collectively impact the birth rate American men have been wringing their hands over for years, they\u2019ve brought something important to us \u2014 a chance to joyfully marinate in a masculinity that doesn\u2019t equate subjugation with strength.<\/p>\n

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