This is Brett McKay, who does a terrific blog called The Art Of Manliness. He did one of those Ignite talks, where speakers are limited to 20 PowerPoint slides to give a five-minute speech. McKay stuck to what he knows best.
I decided to talk about manliness. I discuss the lame stereotypes of manliness that have taken hold in our culture, but then switch gears and talk about some of the signs that indicate a “Menaissance” is taking place in which men are holding themselves to a higher standard.
The effeminate hipsters are dying? I don’t think I’m overstating it when I say that this is great news for Western civilization. I’m in favor of whatever brings the baggy jeans back. My balls are killing me. –The Art Of Manliness. Thanks, Aaron for the link and Jay G. for the img.
Oh, what a FABULOUS suit!
That nerd who had Tebow propose to his girl for him should read The Art of Manliness
Please, let this be the start of a revolution. I can’t keep wanting to punch every single hipster/emo/guido/douche I see.
What does this have to do with sports? Did the IOC approve “hipster killing” for the 2012 Games?
As if kicking in the veneered teeth of a hipster requires any athletic effort. Fat kids on the playground are more intimidating.
My sister lived in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for a while so every time I visited I had to pass through Williamsburg, hipster capitol of the world. My blood starts boiling just thinking about that place.
“OOOOH look at me, my sunglasses have different color frames like white or red!! I know about some obscure music groups that you’ve never heard of! I drink PBR and Sparks because it’s cheap and I’m tough because I moved to Brooklyn 3 months ago. I rescued a pit bull and named him something ironic like Dave! I am so self-aware that I purposefully put cow licks in my hair to make it like I just woke up!
I’m not saying I condone a bomb being dropped on Wburg…BUT I UNDERSTAND.
/chris rock’d
Men should have that sweaty wet hair from just pulling a helmet off and be sweaty, huge, and awesome and never fraid to jack someone who is messing with you.
That’s all….
This is cool, but you know what would be better? If women went through some sort of “retorgrade evolution”
I dont know a guy that has a wife that cooks for him. Everyone has to work to keep up the payments on the 6 bedroom house of which they one use 1.
Men can’t do anything right! = [bit.ly]
“Menaissance”? Really? I’m so happy I’m not wearing a tie right now or I’d be hanging from the rafters.
That guy’s site is awesome. I used to follow him all the time, he did a great series on an old school lather shave, it’ll make you want a straight razor.
Hope you like unshaven armpits, sanitary pad belts (tampons weren’t widely used till the 70s),and no birth control. I hate, I hate tight jeans and believe men should have body hair (massive,Tom Selleck body hair) but you don’t have to go making stupid statements like that.
damn-above post addressed to Crabapple BTW
If men aren’t up to this man’s standards, there is only women to blame. They have been emasculating men for five decades in their search for a corporate penis. Today every sitcom is about a stupid Dad who is constantly berated by his wife and kids. Today no woman cooks, cleans but still wants it “all” Hell, I know gay men who are more masculine than most straight men. The white macho dude has become a beaten down, abused stereotype thanks to the incoherent demands of women.
Actually women still do most of the cooking and cleaning in addition to working a job. Not because they’re in search a “corporate penis” but because incomes haven’t risen at the same rate as cost living. Sorry to burst your bubble.
I don’t think the retrosexual will replace the metrosexual.
RE: Apollo I know plenty of women who cook and clean. Since I have a house and live alone, I have to cook, clean, and repair the house.
I rarely see a sitcom that doesn’t rub me the wrong way. Men without balls on any show piss me off.
Yeah, I was interested (but a bit nervous) until he started mentioning feminism. Essentialism isn’t really a fantastic thing to be teaching as a method of counterculture, but we’ve rotated into this very strange place.
Apollo’s comments are a good example of that sort of essentialist, stereotyping discourse that’s really been presented as an alternative to progressive viewpoints on gender and sexuality, and his tenuous grasp of the English language (are only women, not is only women) and his insertion of race into the discussion shows off what’s really on his mind–he wants a return to the men over women, the whites over blacks, and the straights over gays era.
I only clicked the link from Fark to get a good laugh as I find manhood being defined absolute per generation incredibly laughable, but I must admit his presentation is decent. I still believe that a real “man” will just act as is according to his nature whether that be a straight, clean-cut business suit wearing “job by 20-30″ automaton; or a flaming homosexual “should’ve just had a sex change but gets a large amount of pride and self-identity with being a flaming homosexual” parade streaker. Being a “real” man, or woman for that matter, means being able to stand up against social trends that call for you to act against your natural self (unless they compliment how you naturally are, in which case, hear hear! you lucky bastard!) and just be.. well who you are. People who have a problem with it and need to target you for criticism and/or abuse are, in a general sense, only hiding something about themselves -from themselves- and in no sense of the statement can be considered “real” anythings.. except maybe real dumb-asses.
Last I heard, you were a man by being a man. Would real men worry and try so hard to prove it?
Maybe after all you “real men” are done bitching, you can take your sky blue Prius to the spa, get your facial, throw your pink polo shirt and $300 designer jeans back on, head over to Pinkberry for a treat and don’t forget to make sure you’ve got your Spencer Pratt sunglasses nearby before you come back and complain some more about a man talking about the perception of manliness — 95 percent of which he was spot on — on a fucking comments portion of a comedy/sports blog.
Don’t forget to feed your chihuahua either. That fucker gets hungry when you’re out pracing around Williamsburg you pretentious fuck.
Of course they’d worry. Because manliness is in the eye of the beholder, otherwise who’d give a rat’s ass?
A real man needs to come in here and kick a bunch of you where your nuts used to be. Jessica, sandwich, NOW!