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		<title>How to Make a Wife (or Family) Friendly Man Cave</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The man cave is widely known as the space where men can retreat, either alone or with friends, to watch a football game, smoke cigars and play cards, or trash talk around the pool table. Although the space by its very name sounds like a place where spouses and children aren&#8217;t welcome, that doesn&#8217;t have...]]></description>
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		<title>Arousal Addiction and the Demise of Guys</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/men/arousal-addiction-and-the-demise-of-guys/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/men/arousal-addiction-and-the-demise-of-guys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please take five minutes and watch this presentation by psychologist Philip Zimbardo on &#8220;The Demise of Guys&#8221;, and tell me what you think. &#8220;Boys&#8217; brains are being digitally rewired in a totally new way for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they&#8217;re totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static,...]]></description>
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		<title>Five Ways to Honor Fathers the Rest of the Year</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/five-ways-to-honor-fathers-the-rest-of-the-year/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/five-ways-to-honor-fathers-the-rest-of-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Or, Make Everyday Fathers Day] Fathers Day is another maddening consumer holiday &#8211; a Hallmark-and-sporting-goods-store buying frenzy that sucks in families and spits out cheesy greeting cards, BBQ grills, monogrammed golf balls, and yes, soap-on-a-rope. It&#8217;s a compulsory holiday, one during which a great number of people are convinced that if they sign a card...]]></description>
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		<title>Some Brut Executives Need to be Slapped</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/media/some-brut-executives-need-to-be-slapped/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/media/some-brut-executives-need-to-be-slapped/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 20:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Some men just need to be slapped&#8221; says Brut. &#8220;Yup. And if the idiots that wrote and signed off on that asinine BS were named, I&#8217;d be the first one in line to slap the shit out of them&#8221; says I. Brut&#8217;s latest campaign proves yet again that marketing to men involves sinking to the...]]></description>
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		<title>Manly Men Drive Pickups and Motorcycles, Eat Tubes of Cheese instead of Meals</title>
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		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/men/manly-men-drive-pickups-and-motorcycles-eat-tubes-of-cheese-instead-of-meals/#comments</comments>
		<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>Two-fer Tuesday: Keeping Secrets and Evolving Men</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/two-fer-tuesday/keeping-secrets-andevolving-men/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/two-fer-tuesday/keeping-secrets-andevolving-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturalpapa.com/?p=2676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With summer upon us, I&#8217;m hoping that you&#8217;ve all either got some of your garden planted, purchased a CSA share, or are getting to know your local farmers at the farmers market! For this week&#8217;s Two-fer Tuesday picks, we&#8217;ve got a great essay on whether or not it&#8217;s OK to keep secrets from your spouse, and then...]]></description>
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		<title>Review of The Evolution of Dad Film</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/review-evolution-of-dad-film/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/review-evolution-of-dad-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The role of the dad in families is rapidly changing. I know, state the obvious, eh? More fathers are opting to be the stay at home caregiver, there&#8217;s an increased interest for dads to be a bigger participant in their children&#8217;s lives, and more men are questioning their priorities. And that&#8217;s a good thing. Because if...]]></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>
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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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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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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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		<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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		<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>It&#8217;s Not the Fall So Much as the Impact</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/health/its-not-the-fall-so-much-as-the-impact/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/health/its-not-the-fall-so-much-as-the-impact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a major reality check this last week. Maybe reality check is not the correct term for it &#8211; perhaps mortality check is. Something happened to me that changed my life in the space of a single second. I&#8217;m writing this propped up in a reclining lawn chair in my living room, with my...]]></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>Natural Shaving Products for Men</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/review/natural-shaving-products-for-men/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/review/natural-shaving-products-for-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturalpapa.com/?p=1592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;re wearing a beard, you&#8217;ve got to shave every day. That&#8217;s just a fact of being a man. I&#8217;ve had a love/hate relationship with shaving for a long time &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t find a razor that I really liked, and I didn&#8217;t have a shaving cream that both worked well for me and was...]]></description>
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		<title>Fatherhood: 100 Ways to be a Better Father</title>
		<link>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/100-ways-to-be-a-better-father/</link>
		<comments>http://naturalpapa.com/fatherhood/100-ways-to-be-a-better-father/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek Markham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://naturalpapa.com/?p=681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fatherhood is a tricky proposition. We all want to be great dads, but chances are, our fathers never sat down with us and taught us how to be one. And we don&#8217;t necessarily want to be our fathers. I mean, we want to emulate their positive influence on us, but we also want to do...]]></description>
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