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Obsolete Man Skills You Should Ditch
askmen ^ | January 11, 2019 | Ian Stobber

Posted on 05/25/2019 3:43:57 PM PDT by Mount Athos

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To: Mount Athos

I’ll agree on a couple of them.

Part of leadership is collaboration.

Being a good father means being able to relate and communicate with your kids. Sometimes (rarely in my case) it was with discipline such as a spanking, more likely a “time-out”, or restrictions on TV, etc. But all forms of communication.

Most effective was setting the ground rules, the consequences, and then immediate follow up. (communication)

“Okay, if you can’t calm down you can’t go to the zoo. One more outburst and that is it, and you have to stay at home.” Ended up taking the other two kids and left her at home. I don’t recall ever having to do that again - it made an impression.

Although the following week I took just her to the hardware store and stopped for ice cream to get some one-on-one time with her. She didn’t know I tied it in to the zoo trip thing - just doing normal things with a dad who loves her.


41 posted on 05/25/2019 4:03:34 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: 9YearLurker

If no one learns how to fix things....then who is going to fix things?


42 posted on 05/25/2019 4:03:34 PM PDT by CFW
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To: Mount Athos

I thought we weren’t supposed to post from The Onion here?


43 posted on 05/25/2019 4:03:41 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Mount Athos

This is about the worse advise I have heard in my 72 years on this earth.


44 posted on 05/25/2019 4:04:17 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Mount Athos
Sorry, at age 88 I'm too stuck in my tool-using ways to change now. Moreover, I pity any young man who listens to this nonsense.
45 posted on 05/25/2019 4:05:22 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF.)
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To: Mount Athos

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*%!# off and kiss my @$$.


46 posted on 05/25/2019 4:05:26 PM PDT by Lurker51
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To: Mount Athos

This article is chock full of gayness


47 posted on 05/25/2019 4:05:27 PM PDT by steel_resolve (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: BipolarBob; humblegunner

Gunner’s always been one of the good guys around here.


48 posted on 05/25/2019 4:05:49 PM PDT by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: MayflowerMadam
This writer isn’t serious, is he? It’s a joke...?

Other articles by Ian Stobbler:

Why Men Should Pee Sitting Down

49 posted on 05/25/2019 4:06:11 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Mount Athos

My FRiend, don’t worry. Guys like the author are doing us a favor. They are accepting weakness, and will just fall away from us as the going gets rougher. They are, in a sense, culling themselves.


50 posted on 05/25/2019 4:06:38 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Vaquero

“My number one thing to do is HUNT (until age made it difficult)”

I remember, as a teenager, wheeling my elderly neighbor’s wheelchair through a pasture to a deer stand. It was cold so I wrapped a blanket over his legs. We stayed till we both got too cold.


51 posted on 05/25/2019 4:07:05 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Mount Athos

Ian Stobber is a Soy Boy.


52 posted on 05/25/2019 4:07:10 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Mount Athos

Let me guess. The author is a donut puncher


53 posted on 05/25/2019 4:07:16 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Mount Athos

This was absolute crap. Perhaps if you are a city dwelling millennial incel snowflake some of it might make sense, but to me the author hasn’t a clue.


54 posted on 05/25/2019 4:07:17 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: CatOwner

Agreed .. been saying that for a loooong time.


55 posted on 05/25/2019 4:07:22 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Mount Athos

Obsolete women skills that women should ditch:

Decorum
Being pretty
Chastity
Femininity
Modesty
Cooking
Faithfulness
Mothering
Respectability
Ironing
Civility


56 posted on 05/25/2019 4:07:42 PM PDT by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: CFW

I think you just decorate with new stuff.


57 posted on 05/25/2019 4:07:42 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Mount Athos

One must hope against hope that this was satire. There are small grains of truth - every 25th sentence or so - but this is a very sad screed.


58 posted on 05/25/2019 4:07:49 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Mount Athos

“Instead, Learn How to Communicate With Your Children”

This is just wishful thinking; many men (at least those who could read this article) have given up these man skills:

Marry

Breed

Invest time and money in a career (instead, work for bare sustenance)


59 posted on 05/25/2019 4:08:49 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: polymuser

I don’t really blame women for ditching ironing.


60 posted on 05/25/2019 4:09:00 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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