I decided to create this blog because with today's modern society the rules of being a man that our fathers and grandfathers obeyed just don't seem to apply to our modern society. The icons of men past (Bogart, Sinatra, John Wayne, Chuck Norris, to name just a few) lived in a different world with different rules. In today's society with male icons such as Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Keith Urban, and Robert Pattinson we seem to not know how to be men any more. I no longer see men doing the things that I grew up seeing men do. No man ever stands when a woman leaves or arrives back at a table. How often does a man pick up something that a woman drops while standing in line at the local grocery store? The conventional rules of male fashion seem to be quickly fading in to a hodgepodge of style that is gender confused. My daughter has male friends that I swear buy their clothes at the junior women's section at the thrift shop. Did they realize the jeans they bought already have holes in them and "bedazzled" back pockets?
Don't get me wrong here. I absolutely do not subscribe to the theory that men have to have huge muscles, go looking for a fight, have grease under their fingernails or not be concerned with their appearance. I think being a man is about many things that have become lost in the quest for an "understand and accepting" society. Things like honor, respect, style and class have taken a backseat to hair products, status, and popularity.
Let's rediscover the art of being men together. I would like this site to be a lot of interaction and user generated content. So your input on the subjects discussed here are very important. Please log in and give your opinions and help us teach each other and future generations the subtle ways that men are men.
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