Men--It's in Their Nature

The American Enterprise ^ | Sept 2003 | Christina Hoff Sommers

[Polybius]

metrosexuals..... Maybe I'm ignorant but what is that?.....holdmuhbeer

I assumed 'metrosexuals' were folks who liked shagging in those weird little Nash Metropolitans....headsonpikes

I seems that a metrosexual is what used to be called a SNAG (Sensitive New Age Guy).

Are you a metrosexual kind of guy?

[Noumenon]

There's nothing I like better than to have morning cappucino on the deck whilst using the kids' 10/22 to blast those dirty little four-legged buggers when they poke their little noses out of their holes. Ground squirrels and horses don't mix. Whack! Right between their beady little eyes.

Does this mean that I'm not a SNAG - Sensitive New Age Guy? Do I get any points for the cappucino?

[Nowhere Man]

Ladies, it's not our fault. It's the fault of that broken chromosone. We don't want to do the terrible things we do. We don't want to tell off-color jokes and make sexist comments and hit on women in bars and think about sex all the time. We hate it, really! It's that damn "y" chromosone. Pity us. We men are actually genetic victims. It's a living hell...

So does that mean we can sue somebody? (/sarcasm)

[Hatteras]

You need a GUN to pick off a squirrel at 75 yards? Sheesh.... Heh, heh, heh, Here, hold muh beer and WATCH THIS....

[Modernman]

Dodgeball. Ah, great game

Incredibly egalitarian, if you think about it. You always want to target the best kids first, rather than aiming for the slow, dumpy ones. I seem to remember most dodgeball games in my youth coming down to some of the slower kids, and having everyone else cheer them on at the end.

[RonF]

Its kind of like the basic line you can ask anybody who is helping out a boy scout troop - any outdoor camping activity will eventually have a session where the kids beat each other with sticks.

10-4 on that. Although there is another problem, these days. The "hip-hop" culture teaches the kids that they can't take any slight or minor defeat in passing. They have to retaliate to maintain their reputation, and not just in kind but in escalation. An accidental bump must be returned deliberately. A strong word merits a blow in return, a blow merits an assault with a weapon. It's not like the old days when a couple of kids could mix it up and then be done with it. I've had to step in and stop things and get adults involved where in my day we'd have just let the kids duke it out.

[Darksheare]

My brother and I didn't need toy guns or real ones. We made our own things that went kaboom.
We used it for campfires and for clearing small brush.
Much to the consternation of our neighbors.

Later on, when we got older, we joined the military.
We signed up for field artillery.

[RonF]

I can ... skin a buck. ... Does that eliminate me from sissyhood?

Allow me to point out that in the Native American culture, and many other hunter/gatherer cultures, it was the women who had the job of skinning and preparing carcasses from the hunt.

[philosofy123]

Three ladies were walking down the street when they found a lamp. So one of the ladies rubs it and a genie pops out. "I will grant each of you one wish, and only one wish." So the ladies were thinking long and hard when the first lady says "I got it! I would like to be extremely smart."{POOF} This lady can read the dictionary like it was nothing, spell any word, and do math within seconds. The other two girls were amazed...so the second lady says "I want to be two times smarter than my friend."{POOF} Now the second lady was two times smarter than the first...she could speak five other languages, found the formula for nuclear fusion, and explain everything about our DNA. Totally blown away, the third lady says that she has it "I want to be two times smarter than both my friends put together."{POOF} She turns into a man. :-)

[wideawake]

I refuse to use that barabarous neologism.

Like most neologisms, it is a haphazard combination of Greek and Latin and it replaces a perfectly good, concise, already-existing Anglo-Saxon word: sissy.

[E Rocc]

And then there was Jimmy. At age 11, this San Francisco sixth grader was made to contribute a square to a class quilt “celebrating women we admire.” He chose to honor tennis player Monica Seles who, in 1993, was stabbed on the court by a deranged fan of Steffi Graf. Jimmy handed in a muslin square festooned with a tennis racket and a bloody dagger. His square may be unique in the history of quilting, but his teacher did not appreciate its originality and rejected it.

If he was going with the tennis player theme perhaps he should have picked Anna Kournikova. Perhaps that would have gone over better. :snicker:.

Yes, rules are rules:

More seriously, these "sensitivity trainers", like other socialists, are trying to fix their previous poison with worse poison. These types used to say that men needed to "get in touch with their emotions" or some such garbage like that. Never mind that for thousands of years, every single civilized culture has taught that part of the maturation process for a man is emotional control.

The "sensitivity" types tried to change that. Guess what? Men have different emotions than women. Women are more likely to get sad about things....men are more likely to get angry and lash out. Emotional control is not important? Hmmmm....increased levels of domestic violence, anyone?

Of course admitting this would be admitting that the result of thousands of years of cultural development was right and the touchy-feely types were :gasp: wrong. Can't have that, can we? So like the "doctors" of the Middle Ages, the solution is clear. Bring on.....:Monty Python voice: More Leeches!

-Eric

[RipSawyer]

"One of my wife's best friends is married to one of those "sensitive" guys. He didn't know the difference between a linebacker and a strong safety..."

"What a pansy!"

Well, obviously a linebacker is what you use to fill up half your fishing reel when you are fishing in small streams, that way you don't use up all your good line. A strong safety is one that won't allow your gun to fire unintentionally when you are running through the woods chasing bears.

[headsonpikes]

Checked out the link, took a quick inventory of my traits.

Nope. Ol' HOP ain't cut out to be a 'metrosexual'.

"Shopping with my mate as an enjoyed shared activity???"

They have got to be effing kidding!!!

[Warren_Piece]

"Shopping with my mate as an enjoyed shared activity???" They have got to be effing kidding!!!

Shopping with mate goes in the same category as dancing - you do it, pretend to like it as a downpayment for the hoped-for "reward".

[Fintan]

He didn't know the difference between a linebacker and a strong safety...
 

I'm guessing he might be concentrating on the tight ends...

[RipSawyer]

"Its kind of like the basic line you can ask anybody who is helping out a boy scout troop - any outdoor camping activity will eventually have a session where the kids beat each other with sticks."

When I was a kid we used to have dirt clod wars, it was considered unmanly to throw one with a rock in it. Sometimes we had corn cob wars, a soaking wet corn cob can really hurt but once my older brother threw a whole ear of corn with the dry kernels and the shuck still on and caught me full across the mouth as I came around a corner of the barn. When I could talk again I told him that was cheating. Oh, for the good old days. Fifty years later and I can still sometimes find the small scars from all my childhood fun and games.

[mtbopfuyn]

Y'all obviously haven't hung around a juvenile detention center much. Give me the boys any day. The girls are horrible little monsters who'd just as soon viciously attack anyone as to look at them.

[Darksheare]

Shopping with one's mate can be a chance to pull pranks and jokes.
My missus usually says she doesn't know me and wanders off letting me go where I want to wander until she's done shopping.

[Darksheare]

I concentrate on the cheerleaders.. with tight ends.
Forget the game, gimme the wimmen!