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[Keith Miller]

We've been having this conversation for some time. Here's an inside scoop.

http://artofmanliness.com/trunk/827/why-arent-americans-cast-as-superheroes-anymore-not-manly-enough/

[sarguy]

Sad, but probably something to that. Thanks for the site link. I'll be going back to read more.

Oh, and the section about "shave like your grandfather", advocating the use of the old-school safety razors? I've been using one for the last year. Best shave I've ever had, and damn cheap, too. Sometimes I think I was born 50 years too late.

[whitewolf]

Yes i read the part where boys cant play soccer-Have any one watched gym class for kids in a public school these days-??-When I was in high school our gym class was a actual work out- is it like that these days?
Lets  see- kids have to wear helmets to ride a bike/if they dont want to they get a note to miss gym/most dont even know how to shoot a rifle/list goes on and on-to include 0 tolerance in school-if a kid gets attacked and fights back both sides get suspended-
what the hell happened to us? I could go on and on but its a waste of time-WW

[Kentbob]

This is going to continue until we as men and as a nation figure out that being sensitive doesn't make us any less tough.  I've heard all I care to about "You're grandpa and your dad didn't cry when blah blah blah".  I'm not ashamed to admit that I've cried, and I'm not afraid to go out into situations that are probably going to make me cry again.  The people who write this stuff about manliness, in my opinion, don't know anything more about it than the staff writers for magazines like Cosmopolitan or Maxim. 

What's really hurting us as a nation and as men is the complete lack of balance between what is considered masculine and what is considered feminine.  Very few people these days have to struggle, or are willing to struggle, to overcome adversity, and so they have little to no concept of what strength really is.  You see it in schools, in martial arts, in sports, colleges, malls, and gyms. 

What makes me a man is not the fact that I have a penis and two testicles.  It's the fact that I have that equipment, a lot of testosterone, and I'm not afraid to do what I want to do and say what I want to say, regardless of whether or not it upsets someone.

You want to be a man, then do what you like to do, exercise regularly to include lifting weights, don't make excuses, and speak the truth at all times.

Kent

[Keith Miller]

Live the John Wayne Code.

[Hock]

Like the Code of the West

Hock
(only sometimes you have to lie to trick bad guys  - and your ex-wives)

[Dawg]

It's NOT lying when it comes to ex-wives; it's creative stretching of the truth.

Less stressful for both parties.

BTW, it's even less stressful if you deploy to the other side of the world immediately after the divorce.

Just sayin'!

[whitewolf]

Hey Dawg-thats exactly what im did long time ago-got devorced and got orders to far east-it was a god send- WW

[Joe Hubbard]

Steve McQueen was the coolest!

[Webby]

Kentbob,
            There's a lot of crappy role model's for the kid's to follow. Watch a kid's or teen TV on a Saturday morning. Drink and drug pop stars. Kid's are like sponges, sucking information up. Take a look at what they are consuming. Just nonsense. Then look at the kid's fashion, I wore jeans and shirt's as a kid..30 years on I still do !. This generation want the makeup and the hair-gel the jewelry and the shiny shoe's. The problem is that's just the boy's!! Kid's need good role model's I can't emphasize that enough.
Take a very early morning tour around London, kid's / teens drunk semi-passed out at the bus shop. In a heap on the floor, pissed. 
The rape conviction rate in London is 6.5% the lowest in Europe. I've been in the courts. Q. '' What did you attacker look like ? ''. A '' I was drunk ''. Say's it all.       

[Hock]

Okay...now boys in nail polish?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-14/j-crew-ad-controversy-boys-in-nail-polish/

Hock

[Joe Hubbard]

It's called the emasculation of men.  This is a progressive trend that has spread like a cancer since the early 90s.  Cosmetics, waxing, dumbing down the male role in television shows and movies have all led us to this point- there are no more action heros!

Of course this plays right into the "trickle up poverty" plan that the BIG O has been using to swindle America by bankrupting the middle class.  Who wants the average man to start thinking like a young John Rambo when the ultimate goal is for the "workers" to all be brain dead rather than aspire to such radical ideas that will essentially rock the boat.

The "John Wayne Code" is dying a slow death only to be replaced by the "Lady Gaga Code."  Being the bread winner, fighting wars, protecting your family and their honor was simply not enough to satisfy society in the end.  Instead we have been brainwashed into buying cosmetics, getting rid of our bodily hair and to tap into our feminine side.  Worst of all is all the red blooded males of the free Western world going right along with it...and do you want to know why so many have fallen for it?  This is the best part...it is because the media portrays guys with no chest hair, wearing makeup, sunken cheeks, skinny as young girls with no muscle mass as what women want.  When was the last time you saw a TV commercial advertising a man's cologne with a straight hetro-sexual male in it?  And, that is regardless of whether he is in bed next to a gorgeous babe.  Think about it.

Joe

[Dawg]

The "John Wayne Code" is dying a slow death only to be replaced by the "Lady Gaga Code." 

Well put! I hope you don't mind if I steal that little gem!

This song says it pretty well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yQ9a-hJVy0

The upside of this whole situation (for me!) is the more guys who go along with this emasculation process, the less guys I'll have showing up at some of my favorite fishing and hunting spots. They'll be too concerned with the possibility of getting those pretty nails dirty.

So, go ahead, Pretty Boy, do your thing. Dawg's going fishing!

[Joe Hubbard]

No problemo, spread this news as you please because the more that this happens it will eventually bring an end to Close Quarter Combat.  Hock has always said, "It's our responsibility to keep this stuff alive."

Joe

[whitewolf]

This is interesting-i hold self defense classes at a local health club-very few men take the classes- but--I see a lot in zumba- or ladies yoga--dammmmm-??what up with this -i guess its the loss pf manlyness as stated in these posts- WW