MatureDJ
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"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
article: The Discovery of What It Means to Be a Man
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"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
zekko
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Is it a coincidence that the following was written by a woman who was undergoing transgender procedures to become a man?
"Instead, a new man seems to be emerging: a stay-at-home dad, forced by a failing economy and shifting workplace demographics to discover that he is, in fact, happy with a different, more expansive social role. American men expect their wives to work, according to a recent Pew research study, and want to be engaged fathers.
The new American man is freer in his gender: free to carry a diaper bag, yes, but also free to get a fancy barbershop haircut or talk about his feelings. Buddy comedies outpace romantic comedies, and the on-screen "bromances," inevitably reach a point of almost homoerotic tenderness between fart jokes"
"Instead, a new man seems to be emerging: a stay-at-home dad, forced by a failing economy and shifting workplace demographics to discover that he is, in fact, happy with a different, more expansive social role. American men expect their wives to work, according to a recent Pew research study, and want to be engaged fathers.
The new American man is freer in his gender: free to carry a diaper bag, yes, but also free to get a fancy barbershop haircut or talk about his feelings. Buddy comedies outpace romantic comedies, and the on-screen "bromances," inevitably reach a point of almost homoerotic tenderness between fart jokes"
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We realize how screwed up things are when media needs women to talk about what it means to be a man.
While there is a countless number of magazines giving suggestions to women about how to manipulate men or reminding them what "is their right", an even remotely positive litterature about manliness or being a man would be labelled as sexist or unappropriate or even a "hate speech".
This fact alone says more than any possible bvllsh1t shared from a woman talking about masculinity, and the answer is no there are no such things as "stay at home dad" at least in a sane environment and society.
When it happens its because there are serious sistemic problems beginning from the law and culture/media.
I see myself much more at ease to hunt with my bare hands than changing diapers at home.
While there is a countless number of magazines giving suggestions to women about how to manipulate men or reminding them what "is their right", an even remotely positive litterature about manliness or being a man would be labelled as sexist or unappropriate or even a "hate speech".
This fact alone says more than any possible bvllsh1t shared from a woman talking about masculinity, and the answer is no there are no such things as "stay at home dad" at least in a sane environment and society.
When it happens its because there are serious sistemic problems beginning from the law and culture/media.
I see myself much more at ease to hunt with my bare hands than changing diapers at home.
scrouds
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I really don't care what the atlantic things about "what it means to be a man"
These libby rags need to get bent
These libby rags need to get bent