Men--It's in Their Nature

The American Enterprise ^ | Sept 2003 | Christina Hoff Sommers

[ctlpdad]

Metrosexual = Wussy pedicured not quite gay effeminate city dwelling "i don't know how to start a chainsaw" kinda semi-guys

[Fiddlstix]

[Modernman]

Metrosexual = Wussy pedicured not quite gay effeminate city dwelling "i don't know how to start a chainsaw" kinda semi-guys

Guys who are forever doomed to be just friends with all the women in their lives. Meanwhile, the women are dating the guys who own Harleys.

[Valin]

"No, No, NO it's men are men and women are NUTS! LoL"


I want it noted for the record that this in no way represents the thoughts, feelings, or attitude of your humble servant.

I didn't reach 55 by walking into the lions den with a steak tied around my neck. :-)

[Valin]

Maybe I'm ignorant but what is that?

Ditto.
I'm think that what we have here is a case of "ignorance is bliss". And I'm a happy man.

[tnlibertarian]

Here's a thread on metrosexuals. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929670/posts

[Between the Lines]

Have you ever wondered why they are trying to resocialize the boys instead of the girls. It would seem to me that if you wanted "sameness" you would start at both ends and get rid of the extremes.

[Ayn Rand wannabe]

My boyfriend is like that...I still am trying to convert him to football! ;-D

[old school]

If you reach down and grab yourself, and come up with a handful of nuthin', then you're a metro-sexual!

[Woahhs]

Not quite sure I could pick out all the positions in football either because I don't watch it...

Neither can I, but I don't particularly care what he thinks ;)

[holdmuhbeer]

yep

[Darksheare]

Micheal Jackson?!?!
*Hand grab and high pitched "YeeeHeee!"*

Thanks, now I have that image stuck in my head!

[cardinal4]

the sensitivity trainers were horrified.

Thats the part I like..

[Noumenon]

Sociologists make an important distinction between pathological and healthy masculinity. Boys who exhibit aberrational masculinity define their manhood through anti-social and destructive acts; instead of protecting the vulnerable, they exploit them.

The great irony in this is that the liberal / socialist / feminazi axis is willing to tolerate, excuse and defend such 'abberational masculinity' in its Democratic leadership.

[Woahhs]

Have you ever wondered why they are trying to resocialize the boys instead of the girls. It would seem to me that if you wanted "sameness" you would start at both ends and get rid of the extremes.

Because the dirty little secret is they're trying to be diplomatic. They really consider the feminine "right by definition."

[RJCogburn]

Great story and hilarious.

[RJCogburn]

LOL!!

Didn't see that yesterday. Thanks.

[RonF]

Dodgeball. Ah, great game. For about 3 years, after every Troop meeting the kids in my Troop played dodgeball for about 20 or 30 minutes before they went home. Then, one night, the Webelos Scouts came to visit, and brought their parents. Including the mothers. Said mothers freaked out when they saw the dodgeball game. "They throw the ball so hard! Someone will get hurt!" One of them started screaming at me. One kid did get hit in the head, but he wasn't in the game. His mom had kept him out because she though the game was too dangerous, so he was on the sidelines and was not watching the game. If he'd been in the game, he probably wouldn't have gotten hurt. So, the mothers put the word out that we had a dangerous, undisciplined Troop and I'm still having problems over it.

And what I want to know is, WHERE THE HELL ARE THE FATHERS ON THIS? Some of them were there! Why don't they tell their wives, "Cool it! The kids will be fine! Let them play." Drives me nuts. I've always got to pander to the mothers because half the fathers never say a word to them.

[chriservative]

That was absolutely hilarious. If you've got any more of them, please post em and ping me.

[OhMike]

There is no pigggier man than I--but I never let my son or daughter play with toy guns. Toys are toys; guns are guns. Guns are not toys. My children were taught to use and respect firearms from when they were little. They were also taught that there is no room for error when it comes to firearm safety and handling. It's never good enough to say after a tragic accident, "I'm sorry."

I was very proud of my son when we went to Disney World when he was around 10. We were in the gift shop by the OLD Pirates of the Caribbean ride (you know, when pirates still chased wenches and they still sold replica muzzleloaders as souvenirs). My son was holding a toy flintlock when a woman went walking by him. He reflexively raised the muzzle of that fake gun so the muzzle wouldn't point at the woman. He didn't even realize he'd done it, but he'd been taught never to point a gun at a person--unless you need to kill that person, of course. I'm sure if Saddam ever got within 300 yards of my son and his .270, Uday and Qusay would be reunited with their monstrous sire posthaste.

By the way, although I always encouraged my daughter to shoot and hunt, she just never took to it. OhMike