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5 Things Most Men Have to Learn the Hard Way in Life
PJ Media ^ | 16 May 2018 | John Hawkins

Posted on 05/17/2018 1:28:52 PM PDT by Rummyfan

I do not envy young men in our society. A lot of them grow up without strong male role models. They’re shoved through an education that treats them like defective girls and they come out of that into a world that incessantly feeds them mixed messages. Be chivalrous... chivalry is sexism that means you think women are inferior! Women love strong alpha males... women want men to be sensitive and emotional. It’s your job to take care of and provide for your family… men are expected to do whatever their wife tells them to do, etc., etc., etc. There are so many of these that I could do a whole article on it (Mental note: Do whole article on the contradictory messages men get from society.) There are so many things you have to learn the hard way that I have a whole book on that topic, but here are a few of the most important lessons just for the guys.

1. Rejection Is Not Personal...

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1 posted on 05/17/2018 1:28:52 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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6. Do not marry someone significantly younger than you are
and then live next-door to a mall.


2 posted on 05/17/2018 1:29:49 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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7. A hard man is good to find.


3 posted on 05/17/2018 1:30:47 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Rummyfan

There’s no such thing as free *****.

L


4 posted on 05/17/2018 1:31:19 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Lurker

“There’s no such thing as free *****.”

There is, but it’s 80 years old and diseased...


5 posted on 05/17/2018 1:34:03 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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6 posted on 05/17/2018 1:36:08 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: Rummyfan

With the war on men and masculinity today, I wouldn’t want to be a young man.

But I am an older guy, and I can tell them all to shove it.


7 posted on 05/17/2018 1:37:16 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

8) Don’t end up in a Mexican prison.


8 posted on 05/17/2018 1:37:27 PM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: Rummyfan

A woman always has the last word in every argument.

Anything a man says after that - is the start of a new argument.


9 posted on 05/17/2018 1:37:58 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Rummyfan

#2 The toilet seat must, at all times, be left down


10 posted on 05/17/2018 1:38:02 PM PDT by Bob434
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6. “All in all, you’re just another brick in the wall.” — Pink Floyd


11 posted on 05/17/2018 1:39:33 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: NonValueAdded

This is a trueism. I dated a hair dresser, and that crazy bitch threw knives at me. THAT was the wakeup call to exit.


12 posted on 05/17/2018 1:39:57 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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4. Women Are Nothing Like Men

A hard lesson to learn. Goes both ways, too. Women think that men are just like them until they learn otherwise. The sooner you both figure it out the better.


13 posted on 05/17/2018 1:40:17 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: jalisco555

9) RTFM


14 posted on 05/17/2018 1:40:37 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn’t.

A man marries a woman expecting that she won’t change, but she does.


15 posted on 05/17/2018 1:40:55 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Rummyfan

Why make one woman miserable when you can make several of them happy?


16 posted on 05/17/2018 1:41:41 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.

A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn’t need.


17 posted on 05/17/2018 1:42:06 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Bob434

And lifted up when you are “going” and promptly returned to the down position when you are done. Guys are a pretty good aim, lots of practice, but not that good.


18 posted on 05/17/2018 1:43:43 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Rummyfan

“Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.” Prov. 31:3

However,

“Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies.” Prov. 31:10.


19 posted on 05/17/2018 1:44:06 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Rummyfan

As the WaPo fact checkers and Snopes would say, “We rate this as mostly true.”


20 posted on 05/17/2018 1:44:23 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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