Men--It's in Their Nature

The American Enterprise ^ | Sept 2003 | Christina Hoff Sommers

[ffusco]

Nothing over two inches across! (The long way). The sound effects are hilarious. Clang! Clang! Thwop OWW $$@#$!! ROTFLMAO!

[TheSpottedOwl]

I used to love building palstic model ships and planes and blowing them up!

The good old days. My folks used to let me play with toy guns, I ran the neighborhood with the boys and played cops and robbers, cowboys and indians. Roller derby with metal skates. Kids these days are pansies. Well, except for mine, and the neighbors keep calling the cops on them.

[Dan from Michigan]

The 'new age sensitive male' is DEAD. Time to bury him once and for all.

[ctlpdad]

Toward the end of my tonka truck phase, i was heavily into model rockets, and had a morotcycle (so gas was always around). One afternoon, I decided to combine my hobbies and strapped a d size rocket engine to the tonka concrete mixer which was filled with gas. went about 100' into a power pole. what a fire ball!!

BTW, i had a tonka loader the i wore out the scoop on when i was 5. My dad saved it for a long time.

I haven't grown up much, still work in construction, and as we speak, I haver a caterpillar d4 dozer in my side yard.

Glad I was born with the external plumbing option, becuase a flaming barbie doesnt seem like it would go very far with a d sized rocket engine on it, and wouldn't hold much gas.

[Dan from Michigan]

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

My mom even knows that.

[BlueLancer]

"Toys are toys; guns are guns."

And they can and should be taught the difference.

On a side-note ... we never had toy guns when we were growing up because there were five of us boys and my parents couldn't afford to be buying toy guns for us. So, we used that all-purpose tool ...

The baseball bat: used at the shoulder, it's a sharpshooter rifle; used cradled in the armput, it's a submachine gun; used on top of the shoulder, it's a bazooka; sat on top of a rest (like a beach ball or concrete block), it's a 50-caliber machine gun; held loosely in both hands, it's a bayonet-tipped rifle.

Yeah, we got quite a lot of use of those bats ... and they didn't break like plastic guns either.

[Dan from Michigan]

Thus creating metrosexuals,

Gays in denial...

[Dan from Michigan]

We used to call 'em wusses.

Still do.

[ffusco]

Cops and robbers...
What do the pansy kids play? "UN Inspector?"

I had a great childhood filled with fireworks,toy trucks, cap guns, comic books, sticks and stones, cuts and scrapes and later on...girls!

BTW:I also worked as a laborer, journey man, roofer, plumbers asst, electricians helper, deck builder, finish carpenter and finally project manager. I do love it so!

[tophat9000]

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

ROFLOL! I like this guy!

[Dan from Michigan]

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

I got it! Saturday Night Live called him Lyle!

[ffusco]

went about 100' into a power pole....

AH! Good times!

I still remember my friend burning off his eyebrows playing with a rocket motor! Or the time we put a bull frog into a low orbit!

[TheSpottedOwl]

One afternoon, I decided to combine my hobbies and strapped a d size rocket engine to the tonka concrete mixer which was filled with gas. went about 100' into a power pole. what a fire ball!!

Oh dude that is so cool! No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't bust those toilets.

Glad I was born with the external plumbing option, becuase a flaming barbie doesnt seem like it would go very far with a d sized rocket engine on it, and wouldn't hold much gas.

Being a boy was much more fun than being a girl. I tried my best at impersonating boys, though :)

[BlueLancer]

"Saturday Night Live called him Lyle!"

Or Dieter ...

[Dan from Michigan]

There is no pigggier man than I--but I never let my son or daughter play with toy guns.

As a shooter myself, I understand that perfectly.

[Drawsing]

This bugs me when "sports awareness" is included as a necessary characteristic of real men. I don't watch or keep up with any team sports and I couldn't tell you their positions, although I used to be able to quote all the world record times for middle and long distance running, because I used to run a lot. I also am a watercolor artist. I like reading some poetry and classic literature. I am happily married with two boys and I am a pretty good handyman around the house. I am thinking of starting a club called "real men who don't keep up with team sports".

[Dan from Michigan]

Sprockets!

[savagesusie]

If these people want to know the truth, they'd better get somebody with a lot more intelligence to evaluate the information

They abhor truth...that is the problem with the left. They know exactly what they are doing to our boys. "They" are evil.

[ctlpdad]

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't bust those toilets Thanks for getting us out of school those days!

[TheSpottedOwl]

What do the pansy kids play? "UN Inspector?"

Well, lets see. Fireworks are illegal, scrapes and cuts can be misinterpreted as child abuse, can't find cap guns to save your life. When we lived in the desert, my son and his friends would pack food and spend the day at the Mojave River. By the time he got home, he'd be exhausted. At least they got to see the beavers come back and build dams.

Everything is cemented down here, and the cops are everywhere. Oh yeah, the old goat across the street is a police informant. Fun!! At least she's been on vacation and didn't hear the boy lighting off M-80's on the patio the other night. Scared the crap out of me...

My boy is 15 and is learning how to play electric guitar. His best friend is getting his drumset out of storage and setting it up on our patio. They're starting a band. Pass the earplugs! Hey it beats watching tv :)