Comments on: The Myth of the “Real Man” http://www.weekendkindness.net/2008/08/27/the-myth-of-the-real-man/ Reaching Others Through Kindness Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:48:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MInTheGap http://www.weekendkindness.net/2008/08/27/the-myth-of-the-real-man/comment-page-1/#comment-5579 MInTheGap Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:18:40 +0000 http://www.weekendkindness.net/2008/08/27/the-myth-of-the-real-man/#comment-5579 @AG: That's the first time that I've heard that term, thanks for sharing. I liken it to that test I took a couple weeks ago about how I would rate as a 1920's man. As you're taking the survey you know how you should answer, and yet that wouldn't "work" in our culture today. @AG: That’s the first time that I’ve heard that term, thanks for sharing.

I liken it to that test I took a couple weeks ago about how I would rate as a 1920′s man. As you’re taking the survey you know how you should answer, and yet that wouldn’t “work” in our culture today.

]]> By: AG http://www.weekendkindness.net/2008/08/27/the-myth-of-the-real-man/comment-page-1/#comment-5577 AG Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:25:42 +0000 http://www.weekendkindness.net/2008/08/27/the-myth-of-the-real-man/#comment-5577 Have you heard the word "retrosexual?" For men, it's "a guy who actually likes women instead of wanting to act like them. He uses no hair care products except for white rain shampoo, has several flannel shirts, and owns at least one pair of work boots." For women, she's "that woman who eschews the sexual-revolution plank of feminism in favor of more-traditional values. Perhaps even 1950s values. A little burlesque, a little Betty Crocker, the retrosexual woman has new-fangled spunk and old-fashioned values: she does for abstinence and monogamy what Slang Flashcards do for Dover illustrations. She may be, well, Sexless in the City, but only 'cause she chooses to be." Thanks to the Urban Dictionary for those. Theoretically, a retrosexual man is a man who is reminiscent of the men in the 1940s and 50s. But even then, they're looking at outward characteristics like handyman-ness and wardrobe, not character or integrity. <em>AG's last blog post..<a href='http://talmidah-b-yeshua.blogspot.com/2008/08/praise-report-for-kaleo.html'>Praise Report for Kaleo</a></em> Have you heard the word “retrosexual?” For men, it’s “a guy who actually likes women instead of wanting to act like them. He uses no hair care products except for white rain shampoo, has several flannel shirts, and owns at least one pair of work boots.” For women, she’s “that woman who eschews the sexual-revolution plank of feminism in favor of more-traditional values. Perhaps even 1950s values. A little burlesque, a little Betty Crocker, the retrosexual woman has new-fangled spunk and old-fashioned values: she does for abstinence and monogamy what Slang Flashcards do for Dover illustrations. She may be, well, Sexless in the City, but only ’cause she chooses to be.”

Thanks to the Urban Dictionary for those.

Theoretically, a retrosexual man is a man who is reminiscent of the men in the 1940s and 50s. But even then, they’re looking at outward characteristics like handyman-ness and wardrobe, not character or integrity.

AG’s last blog post..Praise Report for Kaleo

]]> By: MInTheGap http://www.weekendkindness.net/2008/08/27/the-myth-of-the-real-man/comment-page-1/#comment-5574 MInTheGap Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:56:41 +0000 http://www.weekendkindness.net/2008/08/27/the-myth-of-the-real-man/#comment-5574 @Colleen: I can imagine. Those definitions have changed dramatically. @Colleen: I can imagine. Those definitions have changed dramatically.

]]> By: Colleen http://www.weekendkindness.net/2008/08/27/the-myth-of-the-real-man/comment-page-1/#comment-5573 Colleen Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:01:12 +0000 http://www.weekendkindness.net/2008/08/27/the-myth-of-the-real-man/#comment-5573 This is always an interesting conversation with college students when we ask them to describe a "man" and a "woman". This is always an interesting conversation with college students when we ask them to describe a “man” and a “woman”.

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