Men--It's in Their Nature

The American Enterprise ^ | Sept 2003 | Christina Hoff Sommers

[asformeandformyhouse]

What is it about putting things on their heads? I went to bathe my sons one night and they both came in with underwear (clean ones) on their head. Now my brother and I used to do the same thing, but I know for a fact that neither of us has ever told them this. Must be genetic.

[AFreeBird]

How about rock salting her lawn? She can't break her hip looking at dead grass with a message engraved on it :)

Hmmmm, M-80's in the bathroom indeed.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I am humbled by your genius!

Hahaha, I'm so glad kids aren't on this website:)

I remember the time that one of my friend's little brother got his ass beat in woodshop. He was a tiny little 14 yr old with braces, and the guy who punched him out was 17 yr old on the track team (I think)He was twice the size of this little kid anyway. About 15 of us girls, including his big sister, went in the middle of the night and trashed his house. The clerks at Lucky supermarket laughed as we unloaded eggs, tp, rock salt and Crisco. A friend of a friend already had spray paint.

I won't say what the message on the front lawn spelled out, but they were "devout Mormons". Yeah, punch out a kid and get his lips stuck in his braces. That one girl I didn't know (I think she was a cousin or something) spraypainted unmentionable things on their driveway.

They had an idea who did it, but one of my friends parents told the cops and the school that we were there at a slumber party the whole time :)

Last I heard, the kid we stuck up for joined the Navy :)

[TheSpottedOwl]

What is it about putting things on their heads? I went to bathe my sons one night and they both came in with underwear (clean ones) on their head. Now my brother and I used to do the same thing, but I know for a fact that neither of us has ever told them this. Must be genetic.

My son used to do that! Lol, how weird!

[wafflehouse]

interesting..

[TheSpottedOwl]

Hmmmm, M-80's in the bathroom indeed.

I developed a slight anger management problem during my teen years :)

[ffusco]

Coulda used kids like you at my school!

I had to have words with a bully who was picking on my youger brother years ago....Years later the bully thanked me- he had joined the Navy also. Nearly did mysewlf when I was 18.

[ffusco]

My ex told me as a kid she would wear underwear on her head and pretend to be a bee. (leg holes look like big eyes)

[ffusco]

Was kinda fun to get her to show me what she was talking about.....Bzzzzzzzz bzzzzzz!

[asformeandformyhouse]

Don't know if you've seen this.

http://www.captionmachine.com/?p=121&c=1

[Savage Beast]

"Try as they may, parents, teachers, and gender facilitators have not been successful in rooting out male behavior they regard as harmful."

What a bunch of morons! "Gender facilitators"??? "Gender equity experts"???

Is this something from The Onion?

"Of course, boys’ natural masculinity must be tempered."

I'm glad none of these lunatics had the opportunity to "temper" Todd Beamer's masculinity--or to "root out" his "male behavior".

Thank God no one tried to "temper" my father's masculinity--or my son's. They are both saintly men. They certainly didn't need any "gender facilitator" or "gender equity expert"! Neither did I!

Are these people really running around loose? What a bunch of fools!

[Savage Beast]

You're right. "Liberals" and leftists abhor the truth. The truth contradicts everything they stand for.

[Savage Beast]

Yes, my mother refused to let me have a toy gun as a child. I now have an arsenal of guns. She thought she would teach me how to be a man. Even as a small child I knew that was ridiculous. Fortunately I was smart enough to pay no attention to her.

[ffusco]

ROTFLMAO!!!!

[maxwell]

Okay, my free time is pretty much spent watching Law and Order and listening to country music stations, and FR is as close as I get to any kind o' culture, so I'll bite: What in the name of Sweet Zeus is a "metrosexual"?

[fortunecookie]

Men are men, women are women. And (so far) it appears to be working out pretty good. I like it!

Me too!

But the 'sensitivity trainers' don't like it much. We have to cure what's 'wrong' with men, apparently.

Loved these quotes:

Of course, boys’ natural masculinity must be tempered.

and

The gender activists who fill our schools and government agencies will continue with their efforts to make boys more docile and emotional.

Aarggghhh. Thankfully the following is becoming more true:

Maleness is back in fashion. And one reason is that Americans are increasingly aware that traditional male traits such as aggression, competitiveness, risk-taking and stoicism—constrained by virtues of valor, honor and self-sacrifice—are essential to the well-being and safety of our society.

Now more than ever!!! Vive la difference!

[ctlpdad]

I like the skid marks on the kids skivvies - lol!

I also like the rock salt idea, but i grew up in a snotty ass town, and instead of rock salt, we used fertilizer and put a huge 1984 (graduation thing) on the huge slope at the prep school i was sentenced to.

(Note to self - buy rock salt on the way home for the lady next door who can't figure out that her dog's crap needs to stay on her lawn, not mine.)

[ctlpdad]

You read along and you will get it pretty clear!

[Right Wing Professor]

Frasier's brother Niles.

[Pagey]

My Mother(one of, if not the wisest people to ever walk this planet) said "children are like pets you love them...but you also discipline them."

Yep.An "I wholly concur with your entire post" BUMP