Afraid of Our Own Shadow
Boys don’t cry. Don’t be a wimp. Stop being selfish. Be a man about it. You’re not good enough. Sound
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manhood
Manly Men Drive Pickups and Motorcycles, Eat Tubes of Cheese instead of Meals
Evidently, to be a man, you must drive a pickup truck (or motorcycle), eat at BBQ joints, go fishing, do
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Manly Skill: Accepting Help from Others
In a previous post, I wrote about developing manly skills that are alternatives to the psuedo-manliness ideals of binge drinking,
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Addendum to Retrosexual Code: Reality Check
I recently stumbled across a web page from “Radical Conservative” (an anonymous blogger who apparently lives to bash people who
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Manly Skill: Service to Others
One of the symptoms of the sorry state of modern manhood is the crafting of pseudo-manliness articles, which tend to
Read MoreGettin’ My Mojo Back
I’ve been struggling lately. First I had a physical setback, a broken ankle, and I thought that dealing with the
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Giants of Men
[This is a revised version of a post originally published on Jan. 11, 2009, one that I felt was worth
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Mainstream Media to Men: You’re Dead Inside
One of my favorite t-shirt designs has a picture of a TV with a hypnotized-looking person staring at it, and
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