Why Being Manly Is Good For You

Forbes ^ | 04.23.07 | Allison Van Dusen

[Savage Beast]

"Do you think it’s acceptable for a 'man' to want to cuddle up with a girl on a couch and watch a chick flick, sniffing back tears?"

You betcha!

Here's a good one: Thirteen Going on Thirty.

[Savage Beast]

"...it’s the kind of fantasy crap that’s screwed up women’s expectations of love, romance and men in the first place."

That's okay. After you've finished cuddling with her on the couch and sharing a tear or two, you can show her what love, romance, and men are really like! She'll love it! Especially the what men are really like part. (If she doesn't, dump her.)

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

If women could remake us into their vision of acceptable behavior, they'd hate us.

Be a man. We don't have to be girlie men. Women who don't like real men can start their own all-girl colony somewhere. Hen Hell.

[Earthdweller]

What..no blood dripping from the plate? (Just kidding)

Actually that's the way my husband prefers his meat and why he cooks it for both of us. I love 'em, he eats half his bloody steak off the grill (or the stove)while he's waiting for my steak to cook but he cooks it well. Is he a manly man? Well he's not gay obviously and he talks like a normal human. As a matter of fact ladies...if you let a real "manly man" talk once, sometimes you can't stop the flow so beware. LOL.

Yes..woman have to understand that just because their man expresses himself differently than themselves it's no reason to say they haven't had a real conversation.

Here's a little secret many men don't want you to know, sometimes they have "feelings"...oh my God. Someone obviously tried to beat that part out of Cho at a young age...problem is, that never works. It just goes underground and festers. He needed a real man in his life that could help him deal with it.

[bmwcyle]

I don’t shop. I kill and drag home from the store.

[Earthdweller]

“Ain’t it great to be a man?!??!!!”

I wouldn’t know if it was good or bad from a personal perspective. LOL. I just know I don't like men who don't like themselves.

[Earthdweller]

"95% of the angst over these gender-identity issues would simply vanish if people stopped watching television. ;)"

That's right..daytime TV is especially the pits.

[Just another Joe]

Somebody needs to tell this guy.

Who says that's a guy?

[Utilizer]

Lol. So glad you understand, and your husband is a very lucky man. Yeh, the girls seem to accept Me for who I am for the most part, but there are some who can not handle a self-confident man or just HAVE to help him ‘get in touch with his feelings’. After I stop accepting their phone calls they generally get the hint, but trust Me, you single ladies out there are not alone in inadvertently acquiring one of those bloody stalker-types. However for the most part I try to keep like-minded and good people about. Women like different things than men, and those that do not stress about the differences are the best ones to spend time with. *smile*

[Earthdweller]

"Who says that's a guy?"

That's not a guy..that's a boy. Send 'em over to the US, we grow them up faster here. :)

[Utilizer]

That's right..daytime TV is especially the pits.

Ehmmm... Fox News Channel is on 24/7, and pretty much the only host I will not watch is Greta.

[Just another Joe]

So you believe it's healthy to keep everything all bottled up until one becomes a basketcase, then driven to drink to excess, or kill 32 people?

To paraphrase a line from a Crocodile Dundee movie, "That's what a guy has mates for."

A "manly man" has other "manly men" that he can bitch to and about things that he would almost never tell his wife, girlfriend, or "significant other".

Everyone needs an outlet at times.

[Earthdweller]

Ditto here except the Greta part. I can’t stand her (my apologies to Greta fans).

[Earthdweller]

oops..I just saw the “only host I will NOT watch is Greta” part. Time for a coffee break.

[mimaw]

I always liked manly men. Thats why I could never have married a democrat.

[Utilizer]

lol. Good thing I am off today -I need more caffeine as well!

[Thud]

The chief of the rehab department of my disability carrier told me that when she got my medical records, she said, “This guy is determined!” I exactly fit the underwriters’ assessment of male litigators as being willing to crawl through broken glass to get back into the courtoom.

[BigSkyFreeper]

You inelegant implication is quite amusing. Bit of a personal experience, then?

No, that's why it was a question, Einstein.

[Savage Beast]

Sorry, E. It’s hard to know like this online. ~S

[thehumanlynx]

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