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		<title>Afraid of Our Own Shadow</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/men/afraid-of-our-own-shadow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boys don&#8217;t cry. Don&#8217;t be a wimp. Stop being selfish. Be a man about it. You&#8217;re not good enough. Sound familiar? &#8220;We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.&#8221; &#8211; Robert Bly...]]></description>
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		<title>Manly Men Drive Pickups and Motorcycles, Eat Tubes of Cheese instead of Meals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evidently, to be a man, you must drive a pickup truck (or motorcycle), eat at BBQ joints, go fishing, do your own home improvement, watch a lot of pro sports and auto racing, subscribe to sports and men&#8217;s magazines, and eat a lot of &#8220;salty snacks&#8221;. At least according to Sperling&#8217;s Best Places, Weber Shandwick,...]]></description>
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		<title>Manly Skill: Accepting Help from Others</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/self-improvement/manly-skill-accepting-help-from-others/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/self-improvement/manly-skill-accepting-help-from-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I wrote about developing manly skills that are alternatives to the psuedo-manliness ideals of binge drinking, violence, philandering, and cluelessness so prevalent in our culture, saying that being in service to others is an important piece of being a true man. The article was well received, but I just got a...]]></description>
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		<title>Addendum to Retrosexual Code: Reality Check</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/men/addendum-to-retrosexual-code-reality-check/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/men/addendum-to-retrosexual-code-reality-check/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Men]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled across a web page from &#8220;Radical Conservative&#8221; (an anonymous blogger who apparently lives to bash people who don&#8217;t believe as he (she?) does) called Retrosexual Code. The Code is full of so many tired stereotypes that I can&#8217;t help but feel sorry for the person who wrote it. I&#8217;m going to help...]]></description>
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		<title>Manly Skill: Service to Others</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/self-improvement/manly-skill-service-to-others/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/self-improvement/manly-skill-service-to-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self Improvement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturalpapa.com/?p=2367</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the symptoms of the sorry state of modern manhood is the crafting of pseudo-manliness articles, which tend to revolve around the stereotype of the foolish and shallow man who acts macho and virile, while completely disregarding some of the higher virtues of manliness. In order to balance out those articles, I&#8217;d like to...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gettin&#8217; My Mojo Back</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/self-improvement/geting-my-mojo-back/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/self-improvement/geting-my-mojo-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[feedback for men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[get your mojo back]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jayson Gaddis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been struggling lately. First I had a physical setback, a broken ankle, and I thought that dealing with the physical side of my healing would be the major thing to overcome. Then came the realization that the mental part of my game was actually a more difficult piece to overcome, and I completely underestimated...]]></description>
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		<title>Giants of Men</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/giants-of-men/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/giants-of-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturalpapa.com/?p=274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[This is a revised version of a post originally published on Jan. 11, 2009, one that I felt was worth revisiting.] This weekend, I buried my grandfather. He was a giant among men, and will be sorely missed. He lost his wife of 65 years to cancer over two years ago, and he still lived...]]></description>
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		<title>Mainstream Media to Men: You&#8217;re Dead Inside</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/men/mainstream-media-to-men-youre-dead-inside/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/men/mainstream-media-to-men-youre-dead-inside/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturalpapa.com/?p=2139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite t-shirt designs has a picture of a TV with a hypnotized-looking person staring at it, and the caption, &#8220;Why do you think they call it programming?&#8221; So it probably goes without saying that I don&#8217;t watch (or even own a) TV. I just can&#8217;t bring myself to expose my family to...]]></description>
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		<title>Two-fer Tuesday: The Dude Crisis and Easy Green Curry</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/two-fer-tuesday/two-fer-tuesday-the-dude-crisis-and-easy-green-curry/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/two-fer-tuesday/two-fer-tuesday-the-dude-crisis-and-easy-green-curry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturalpapa.com/?p=2007</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to stay up on what men are talking about as it relates to masculinity, manhood, and personal development, and one of my new favorite subscriptions in the &#8216;man stuff&#8217; folder in my RSS reader is The Masculine Heart. This week, William shares a clip from Comedy Central which pokes fun at the men&#8217;s...]]></description>
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		<title>Advice to Myself as a Young Man</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/advice-to-myself-as-a-young-man/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/advice-to-myself-as-a-young-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturalpapa.com/?p=1713</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This year I turned 40, and along with the realization that I&#8217;m now middle-aged (ack!) came some meditations on the life lessons I&#8217;ve learned so far (or not learned, as the case may be). As part of that process of introspection, I found myself wondering what I wish I had heard (and taken to heart)...]]></description>
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		<title>When Does a Boy Become a Man? Our Missing Rites of Manhood</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/when-does-a-boy-become-a-man-our-missing-rites-of-manhood/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/when-does-a-boy-become-a-man-our-missing-rites-of-manhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturalpapa.com/?p=1638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At what point in a boy&#8217;s life does he become a man? How does his community, his father and uncles and grandpas, acknowledge that transition and begin the initiation and mentoring process of bringing him into the brotherhood of men? With our daughters, we can acknowledge their ascent to young womanhood when they start their...]]></description>
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		<title>Crash and Learn: Tom Matlack, Good Men Project</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/crash-and-learn-tom-matlack-good-men-project/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/crash-and-learn-tom-matlack-good-men-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturalpapa.com/?p=1119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to be a man in America today? A unique book and documentary attempts to examine that question in depth through a selection of personal essays &#8211; men telling their stories and sharing their experiences: The Good Men Project. &#8220;The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood...]]></description>
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