Guys Against The Girlification of Guys

For over a generation we've sat by and watched as our popular culture, academia, news media, and political class - mostly from the left - have sought to minimize, eliminate or outright outlaw the typical male. Over the years we watched as they've attempted to replace our pickup trucks with Smart Cars, our grilled meats with veggie burgers, and turned us into buffoons in movies and television, not being satisfied until they've turned us all into a bunch of whiny, wafer-thin organic farmers. This blog is the place to document and discuss the issues of returning real masculinity to American culture.

[lileks]

Yeah, brother. It’s Friday.

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So God made a farmer

Without question, the best ad of the 2013 Super Bowl.

[loydmcintosh]

I found some photos in an old Google album I set up a long time ago from the 2010 Alabama Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament. The tournament was held at the Shades Valley YMCA on the outskirts of downtown Birmingham. I shot this photo and a boatload of others from the raised track about 15 feet above the ring.

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Every time I wash my hands away from either home or the office I have to wonder if my wife is going to be suspicious that I'm up to something no good. More often than not I leave the washroom smelling like some hormonal, Hallmark-watching, Bath & Body Words shopping woman's linen closet. Really who in their right mind, much less a self-respecting guy, wants to smell like Lavender Chamomile, Enchanted Orchid, or Rainkissed Leaves (all are real fragrances, by the way. Not even I could make this crap up).

Fortunately, there's a solution to the woman-soap problem. I found this piece over at coolmaterial.com today on a new company called Manhands Soap. Even though to days of Lava Soap in the garage sink may largely be over, these are bars of soap that won't embarrass you to have sitting on the lavatory. Manhands Soap, a new company specializing in man-friednly soap, offers some interesting fragrances, including Log Cabin, Bacon, Baseball Glove and even Urinal Mint.

The company is so now it doesn't appear to have a website, only a Facebook page stating Manhands Soap was founded in Lincoln, Nebraska, November 2012, so I have no idea if they are up for new suggestions, but I'll offer a few: New Car Leather, Charcoal Grill, and Tabasco.

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Maryland Schools Are At It Again.

One month after a 6-year-old Montgomery County boy was suspended for pointing his finger in the universally understood gun gesture, two more 6-year-old Maryland boys were suspended earlier this week after making the gun gesture during a game of cops and robbers. I won't be surprised if part of their "sentencing" is being forced to play with Hasbro's new Easy Bake Oven for boys.

If these rules had been in place when I was a kid I'd probably be on death row by now. Honestly, nothing makes my blood boil harder than these stories of boys either being suspended or arrested for pointing their fingers and saying "bang!"

Here's just a snippet from the story on Fox News.

"A child psychologist told WJZ-TV that the minds of most 6-year-olds are not developed enough to understand why adults might be sensitive to the gesture."

How about the child psychologist and the other "adult" adjust their own mindset and realize it's probably "upsetting" to the first grader to be suspended or arrested just for being a boy! Let me give a little world of advice to parents in Maryland. Sell your house and move!

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"I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.”

-  Raymond Carver

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FARM GIRLS!

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the baddest dude on television, Jim Tom from the Discovery Channel show, Moonshiners!

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Beware of the Biebs

From the You Gotta Be Kidding Me file comes this story: Justin Bieber sued by ex-bodyguard for assault. You read that right. Sued for assault by a former BODYGUARD! According to the story, the Biebs' former bodyguard Moshe Benabou claims the singer repeatedly smacked him the chest after a disagreement in October and is suing him for over 400,000 in unpaid overtime in addition to unspecified damages for "assault and battery".  

Take a look at this photo and believe me when I tell you, this is one tough hombre.

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HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY to a HAPPY DICK

PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON

Born Yorba Linda, California, January 9, 1913, U.S. Congressman 1942—Vice President 1952 and 1956, 37th President of the United States, 1969.

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Happy 100th Birthday Richard Nixon. I'd still take Nixon over Obama any day.

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This Was Worthy Of An Apology?

So, a grown man comments on the physical beauty of a grown woman and this causes such a crap storm that ESPN feels compelled to offer an apology? Here’s just a portion of what Brent Musberger said during the second quarter of the BCS National Championship Game Monday night about Alabama Quarterback A.J. McCarron’s girlfriend Katherine Webb. 

“Wow, I’m telling ya, you quarterbacks get all the good-looking women!”

How dare he use such explicit language during a family broadcast. I don’t know how my 9-year-old daughter who was watching the game with me will ever be the same after listening to such trash. Sarcasm out of the way, can we all drop this I’ve-been-offended nonsense and just live normal lives?. Webb didn’t even think Musberger’s comments were out of line.

For crying out loud, there’s worse said at 4 p.m. on the friggin’ Disney Channel, which owns ESPN by the way. I think Disney ought to apologize to all of humanity for such monstrosities as Austin & Ally and Dog With Blog, two shows with some of the most sniveling, whiny, idiotic, p-whipped, allegedly-male characters currently on television.

Stand with Musberger. He complimented an attractive woman. He said nothing wrong. Period.

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A lot of people freaked out about this, Barrett Jones shoving A.J. McCarron after a short argument in the fourth quarter of Alabama's beat down of Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship Game. Of those people who freaked out about this, I would guess 95-97 percent of them still wear footie pajamas.

I don't think the word "coast" is in their dictionaries.

Roll Tide!

[loydmcintosh]

“Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.”

Paul Bear Bryant (via loydmcintosh)