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    Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?

    "Men In Power": A Student Group Combats "Reverse Sexism"
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    Image of SylvanSylph SylvanSylph
    06/07/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    Sigh. I really really really love my cuddly, cute-overload.com-addicted, no-longer-bicurious-because-he-tried-and-didn't-like-it, baby-loving, giant, burly, hairy, fist-fight-winning man. Whenever I get annoyed with him over something stupid, I all I need to do is read Jezebel to remind myself of what kind of assholes are out there. And it all goes out the window.
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    Image of SylvanSylph SylvanSylph
    06/07/09

    @SylvanSylph: That did a very strange thing with my very long hyphenated adjective! Anyway, there are amazing men out there, those of you seeking one take heart!
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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    Um... Thai "girly-men" are typically not affluent dandies. And if they are competitive in Muay Thai, they can kick just as much ass as any "manly-man."
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    Image of SarahMC SarahMC
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    Yeah I'm sure Men In Power (i.e. "reality") care about men being SAHDs. It's telling that whenever men have some alleged grievance with patriarchy (strict gender roles, in this case), they react by whining about the very people fighting it (i.e. feminists).
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    I guess the concept of "courageous feats in context" is not exactly in these guys' lexicons.
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    Image of BonoBGood BonoBGood
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    Ahhh... this post reminds me why I stopped reading this blog. Thanks!
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    06/05/09

    @BonoBGood: If you stopped reading this blog...then why are you reading this blog?
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    06/05/09

    @whynotshesaid: They forgot to make sense.
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    Image of rocknerd rocknerd
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    Wow, a group promoting "Men in Power". They have really done a good job getting men into positions of power. Bravo Sirs!!
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    Image of HuckleberryFriend HuckleberryFriend
    06/05/09

    @rocknerd: "Yes, you appear to have accomplished your goal. Well done! So you can go back to where you came from now. Bye!"
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    Image of clevernamehere clevernamehere
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    Eh, I can't get too worked up about a mildly retro book about masculinity. But I do think its funny that he call Starship Troopers "a young man who has to face an enemy straight on and thereby grow into a man" when it takes places in a pretty gender neutral society.


    Chris seems to have no idea what Men in Power is about. It isn't a group that includes issues like being a stay at home dad or how to balance fatherhood and work, its about promoting men as a class into greater power, which they don't need.

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    Image of Saltine Saltine
    06/05/09

    @clevernamehere: IS he unaware that that movie is a giant attack on fascism and not embracing the culture it shows? Or did that just go completely over his tiny little head(s)
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    Image of Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni! Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    Also, no-one would be better off with Paul Hogan, that tax-dodging bastard!
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    Image of Laulau Laulau
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    Yikes - so what does that mean about all the guys I know who are neither Dundee nor Seacrest? They're gay? Mutant non-humanoids? Figments of my imagination? HOLOGRAMS???
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    Image of electrogeek77 electrogeek77
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    Feats of strength? That's not manliness. That's Festivus.
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    06/05/09

    @electrogeek77: Ah, but is not the Airing of Grievances a rather sissy thing?
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    Isn't getting knowledge from a book rather than the sweat of your balls kind of, well, sissy? Not to Miniter. He thinks men need his guide to help them with important manliness tasks like fending off mountain lions...


    No, what he really thinks is that he needs royalties from men who are too afraid to figure out for themselves what manliness is, and God knows there's no shortage of those. Really, there's absolutely nothing in here that can't be solved by introspection, intelligence, and confidence, and there's no need--or means--to gain those things through acts of violence or dominance or original discovery. If they need women to tell them to find another way, then so be it. It doesn't make us better or worse. It doesn't make them dandies. It does make the world better.

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    Image of Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni! Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    Why the fuck would you try and tackle a mountain lion? Why? Real men - and women, natch - have the goo sense to leave wildlife the fuck alone!


    /person from country where idiots go swimming in clearly marked and well-known croc-infested waters in the middle of the night & are surprised when they get eaten, other idiots call for cull.

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    Image of Penny Penny
    06/05/09

    @Fridge Hussy : Isn't it?: I'm the opposite, the reason I am largely adverse to hiking (aside from my laziness) is the possibility of being mauled by a mountain lion. And I am totally serious.
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    Image of Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni! Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
    06/05/09

    @Penny: I have no idea why people outside Oz think that we have the deadliest wildlife. The Tasmanian Tiger has been extinct for decades. You have bears, dammit. Bears!
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    Image of Artemis47 Artemis47
    06/05/09

    @Fridge Hussy : Isn't it?: Oz only has the worst AQUATIC wildlife. If there was one thing I learned from study abroad, it was never, ever swim in the ocean. On land, you just have snakes and funnel web spiders. And drop bears.
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    Image of peperony and chease peperony and chease
    06/05/09

    @Fridge Hussy : Isn't it?: People got a lotta nerve.
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    Image of DorothyBarker DorothyBarker
    06/05/09

    @Artemis47: 'Drop Bears'???? Is that a bear that drops on your head to eat you? omg. Another thing to be irrationally afraid of. I've also heard you Aussies have like a trillion bugs that can kill you just by looking at you. I've always wanted to travel there but it just gets scawier and scawier.
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    Image of Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni! Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
    06/05/09

    @DorothyBarker: This is funny. But it is a closely guarded secret as to why.
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    Image of rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
    06/05/09

    @Fridge Hussy : Isn't it?: You do have some of the deadliest wildlife, they all just happen to be small snakes with neurotoxins.
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    Image of Penny Penny
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    "Women quite rightly realize they're better off with Crocodile Dundee than with Ryan Seacrest."


    This is HILARIOUS. Really? I'm with you, Anna. Fuck.


    What would the female equivalent of this pairing be?

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    Image of BellaTricks BellaTricks
    06/05/09

    @Penny: Anna Nicole Smith and Rosie O'Donnell?
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    Image of rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
    06/05/09

    @Fridge Hussy : Isn't it?: Jim Gaffigan has it right, if the outdoors are so great then how come all the bugs are trying to get inside?
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    Image of missteenwordpower missteenwordpower
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    Wow, nothing is manlier than applying current, narrow cultural standards to the entirety of world history. "Haha, high heels = ladiez!" Clearly, the manliest of men own NO shoes and get by on the callused soles of their muscley, muscley manfeet. I wonder what Miniter wears?
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    Image of Alys Brangwin has a huge talent Alys Brangwin has a huge talent
    06/05/09

    @missteenwordpower is your sexy Ms. Magoo.: They work out while listening to heavy metal and always have the movie 300 on in the background to pump themselves up.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    06/05/09

    In reply to Being A Man: A Rough Life, Or Not Rough Enough?
    I am amused that those on the right still think using the phrase "girly-man" is the apex of timeliness and wit.
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    Image of BellaTricks BellaTricks
    06/05/09

    @bluebears: They'll keep using it as long as they believe Arnold Schwarzenegger is still relevant.
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    Image of Kristina B Kristina B
    06/05/09

    @bluebears: i think it's correctly pronounced: "gühly-mahhn."
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    Image of BellaTricks BellaTricks
    06/05/09

    @Kristina B: That's how I hear it in my head :)
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