Quote Them

"If you're reading this then you -- or the male you have bought it for -- are the worst man in history. No ifs, no buts -- the worst man, period...As a class we are in fact the sorriest cohort of masculine Homo sapiens to ever walk the planet."

Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister,
quoted from his book "Manthropology: The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male."



PS Golly. I don't need to go that far. I'd be fine if they'd just be a bit bolder.

This weekend, I attended the U2 concert in Norman with a friend. On the drive there, my friend (a male) is talking to me about some of his other male friends. It seems even other men notice when men can't walk across the room to communicate with a woman.
"I guess they've had a lot of rejection," he said.
Here is where I'm often not all that sympathetic.
"So what?" I said. "Big deal. They were rejected. Get over it. Your a man, act like it."

Yes, I know rejection is difficult. I'll never say it isn't. But is "difficult" an excuse? Are men okay not being that strong symbol the world so desperately needs because things are "difficult"? When did "difficult" mean "impossible"?

Sorry. I'm tired of sorry excuses for myself. And I'm tired of sorry excuses for anyone else, too. It's time we suck it up and stop expecting life to be easy, sweet, and fair. It isn't and won't be. Deal with it. Move on.

NOW, before I'm hated or dismissed as being callus, let me make a clear declaration: I LOVE masculinity.

Absolutely adore it. Unless you are a woman, I don't think men can even understand how much women crave the company of masculinity. It is indescribable to explain how it affects me. Can't do it. All I can say is, I love it. It is inherently embedded into my DNA to absolutely cherish it.
I also cannot explain the sadness and mourning I feel when I meet an effeminate male.

Because I love the masculinity of men so much, because I have such high regard for it, feel so desperate it continue, I refuse to baby, coddle, and pamper the ridiculousness of this touchy-feely culture where men are to be treated like little girls.
Masculine men are different. They are tougher, stronger, independent, and a force to be honored, not treated as weak. And I never want that strength philosophized away in an attempt to make men more "sensitive".
I want men exactly as God designed them - as his boldest, strongest, most ferocious entity. And I want that respected.

So, yeah, rejection? So what. That is nothing to a man. He's stronger than that.