Manliness: the last bit
I’m hearing all kinds of things. Like:
We’re less manly because women take birth control and their pee gets in our water and that shrinks our dudes.
That it’s not so much we’re less manly but women are doing more and therefore are more manly than they were.
And so on.
But TennGoodBoy wins with:
What kinda men sit around and analyze what is manly? Oh, I know. Girly Men…
Heh.
July 23rd, 2010 at 10:25 am
Well, we used to have poetry for that: The Iliad, Beowulf, The Aeneid–that’s pretty much what they’re about, or so Alisa Rosenbaum says. But then we got too “manly” for poetry, and that leaves us sitting around ye olde drum circle, doesn’t it?
July 23rd, 2010 at 12:12 pm
I once read that women’s birth control pills are the reason why over the years women have started to like younger boyish looking men. If the boyish are getting the tail, over the rugged men, then vanity is going to take hold in men, just as it did with women – and then all of the sudden, form becomes the priority over function.
Monogamy was born when people started walking on two legs, and women needed protectors, because they could not fight off predators while holding a child. Man’s role was to protect and to feed. To do what was needed to insure the survival of his family. So I personally think that as long as a man can maintain function over form and does what is needed when it is needed for his family, he maintains his “manliness.”
July 23rd, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Kinda thought that myself. Manly men aren’t concerned about being “manly”.
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Some quotes from John Wayne, a manly man who portrayed men that didn’t think about it, they just did it:
“I never shot nobody I didn’t have to.”
“I don’t give jobs, I hire men.”
“Well, I don’t favor talkin’ to vermin, but I’ll talk to you just this once.”
“Sorry don’t get it done…”
“Well, there are some things a man just can’t run away from.”
“All battles are fought by scared men who’d rather be some place else.”
“Out here, due process is a bullet.”
“Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.”
July 23rd, 2010 at 3:56 pm
I never thought much about being “manly”. I just did and do my job as a husband, as a father, as a soldier, and as a citizen. Been married to the same woman for 39 years, the son is grown and a fine young man,(the USMC – God bless ’em, had a something to do with that) I survived Vietnam and I am known in the local conservative groups. I also teach riflery and pistol marksmanship.
July 23rd, 2010 at 5:18 pm
“I do not avoid women, Mandrake…but I do deny them my essence.”
I don’t believe a word of it. If they’re right, why do I dream at night of killing things with a big hammer and fire?
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:13 pm
“What kinda men sit around and analyze what is manly? Oh, I know. Girly Men…”
Not surprisingly, most people who write these articles are from the Southern California coast, or from metro areas of the Northeast.
July 24th, 2010 at 11:07 am
I’ll be out working on my tractors. I’ll check back later to find out how to be “manly.”
July 26th, 2010 at 8:40 am
Ironically, I was gonna respond to the second post, and I was like: “Fuck it. Either you get it, or you’re just mystified by it.”
You know what’s the perfect example of the very essence of manliness? 72 year old Buzz Aldrin laying a douche bad conspiracy theorist straight the fuck out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUFO8AGMwic
A real American hero.