So my wife and I both had the morning off and I happened
upon a “news” show that did a segment on the “modern man”.
The segment included the following;
-The “man purse”
-Capri pants for men
-A “bikini” for men
-Pedicures & facials in a spa (think of a man getting a
facial treatment applied via a paint brush in a Zen style setting)
-Spray tanning at a Tanning “Salon”
I offer a rebuttal to all of this non-sense.
But First I concede the following;
I wear “Capri” style tights when I ride my mountain bike, while
some dudes would deduct points from my man-card for the tights they are in fact
task specific and make sense for riding, so I would tell all of the naysayers
to turn off the NFL reruns and go do something active in the woods. (By the
way, Football players wear tights)
I write what some would consider poetry, another activity
that some men would consider “feminine”. My response to this is read up on
Bushido and the idea of the “Warrior Poet”. (The Samurai were NOT girly men)…
I am fascinated by sunrises & sunsets, as evident by
some of the photography I post, this doesn’t translate into me weeping
frequently or reading romance novels with Fabio on the cover.
Notwithstanding the aforementioned ranting here are a few observations
from an “enlightened pseudo-redneck hybrid” kind of guy;
Women like real men.
Women dig guys who take care of themselves both physically
and mentally.
A man should be able to take his woman’s feelings into
account while simultaneously being able to defend her, and I’m talking about
real threats, not bar fights.
Men don’t spray tan, we get tan from being outdoors in the sun
riding, running, fishing, using a *chain saw ,or building things like trails.
*(Don’t just walk around with a running chainsaw in a sub-division,
another man may ask you why at gun point)
Real women do NOT like men who wear make-up; Boys with the
skinny jeans and mascara are not appealing to women, maybe girls but not women.
TV personalities are almost never real men.
Men don’t carry purses; you want to carry a bag? Get a
backpack…then put your latte down & go for a hike, in the woods.
Real men build fires… (Controlled fires, don’t be a pyro)
Personal grooming does not include “Mani”-or “Pedi”-cures, got
a hang nail? Tear it off and be on your way…
Men fish, and if they hunt they eat what they kill. (Standing
on the side of the road in blaze orange waiting for a hunting dog that is suffering
from malnutrition to “scare up a deer” so that you can ambush it does not rise
to the level of making you a hunter.
Maybe this will be part one of a multi-part series, my small
contribution to off-set the BS info being disseminated about modern men if you
will.
Do real men blog?
Insight is yet another trait of the real man.
