defend the indefensible, if you dare.
http://therulesofagentleman.tumblr.com/
http://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
No. 214 : "Do not touch the hiney unless you have earned her trust"
― Latham Green, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
"rape discourse is very much alive."
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
Like someone mentioned in another thread yesterday, I wish there were glasses that would allow me to see the people in real life that post this kind of shit so I could avoid them completely.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp: I see how that translates to rape discourse, but I think the intent was for things like opening doors and pulling out chairs (unless sex is now officially a "small thing")
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
wondering where this stuff fits in with the bizarre constellation of PUA artistry, "men's rights" advocacy, and reader's digest coffee table books.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
DJP - I think it was more just a snarky commentary on the use of the phrase, "she's really looking for it".
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
This one's a podcast, not a blog, and it's actually mostly good.
― 27 Dresses, 13 Assassins (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
"bad advice"
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean how is this not utterly horrible, like some yawning chasm of possessiveness & jealousy beneath a thin screen of romantic sentiment.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
"how to be a colossal creep and repel women"
― Garyln (La Lechera), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Guys I gotta run, some dude at my wife's work just cracked a joke that made her smile. I have to go shoot him, iirc.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
you must not love her, if you even let that happen.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
I am not a real gentleman I guess.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 13:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
a man's biggest mistake
― just sayin, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Some of these things have 8,000 odd comments underneath!
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
Erm...
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
okay I really thought this was all massive overreaction until those last two
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^ Clearly whoever wrote this has never been in a black taxi in London.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
15,000 comments underneath that one.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Art Of Manliness is aight when the topics are practical things like how to trim your mustache or how to make jerky or how to tie a tie; obnoxious when it editorializes about the pussification of the American male. overall it comes across as the Boy Scout handbook for self-conscious men's rights activists who wish they'd been born in 1880.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
ALWAYS SAVE SOME TURKEY FOR HER
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
these have to be some sort of joke right, love?
― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think that 175 can work for some guys. Depends on how it's said and by whom imo. The suggestion that it'll make "her melt everytime" is lol though. The rest of these are just ridiculous.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
not sure "apathy" is the right word.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
-xpost-
Well, that's how they come across to me (as a joek). Not looked at the blog.
Although I do remember that guy chatting up girls in the bakery…
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
what if you like girls that swear??
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
xpost "I should really be writing you passive-aggressive emails right now, but pffff...."
― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
first rule of fight club is never talk about fight club
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
out of context, a lot of these read as practical advice for the parents of 3-year-old girls.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah I think this all has to be a not very funny joke.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol bedtime story
djp i really don't have a problem with promoting courtesy, respect, civility, discretion, & other 'gentlemanly' virtues, whatever, but a lot of this 'advice' is just weighed down with so much gender insecurity and total cluelessness.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
strangely hurt and jilted tone to this one.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
No.200 - now I know this is a joke. "I love how he only fights with me when nobody's watching. It makes me feel special".
― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
wasn't this a rick astley b-side??
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
IDIOT. ARE YOU GETTING THIS, IDIOT? OMG WHAT AN IDIOT.
lol xp
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
Elmo that's why I think that the author is being facetious. It's just too ridiculous.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
if this is a joke it's actually hilarious
but it isn't a joke.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
That last one Local Garda posted is so so creepy.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
i can assure you that no matter the intent, this shit gets reblogged in total sincerity. i can't go on tumblr to look at menswear blogs without one of these bits of fucked up advice popping up on my dashboard.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
no. 200: "let her know there's a private world that you and her share that is chock-full of acrimony and bitterness"
All I'm saying is that the tone you were seeing in the initial ones you posted seemed like they were reaching for the worst possible interpretation; out of context from some of the later ones, I don't think they are terrible pieces of advice, but taken as a whole I totally agree with you.
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Advice from a jaded bitter dude there.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think Noel G and Scholesy need to submit a few entries.
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
finally the way my ex used to bite her lip during non-commital discussions of the future explained
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
!!!!!
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
braggin'
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
#74 actually works, btw
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
let's face it
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Go on. Be that guy.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
author obv think all women are incapable of recognising good music from bad
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
hahahahahahahahahahaha oh I would love to see someone terrible at music try #134 on ANY of my musical friends
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
if you imagine these as written by a paedophile many make a more sinister form of sense.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
"i've just been to the doctors, it's extremely bad ne"
"SHUT UP DARLING!"
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 10:11 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
OK if that's true than that's completely fucked up.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Write a song for her. Even if it's shit you'll be kneee deep in clunge"
― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― blueski, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 10:14 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
LOL
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
CLUNGE!?
ewwwwww
Not quite sure what this one means in all honesty.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
x-post I think that only gash might be worse euphemism.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, 34. What does it even mean?
If a girl admits that she likes _____, know that it took every ounce of courage in her to say that.
― 27 Dresses, 13 Assassins (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha dan i was kinda o_0 at the gentlemanly wisdom of "if you give her sperm she'll give you a baby" i mean
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
Str8 rapey this one.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
― ledge, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
submitted by Garu G
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
This must be a guerilla viral for the new Inbetweeners series, surely?
― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
my mind is blown dude. rewriting the rulebook!
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
#34 is "it's about the personality"
well obv that is ridiculous and not necessarily true, but that's not really the important part of the advice, which is "don't be a dick to her"
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/11/365-days-307---.html
― Latham Green, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
are there any actually non-crazy bits of advice here?
― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
a couple but not many
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
She will be aroused by the increased chance of you being attacked or run over.
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
ahahahahahahahahaha
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
78 is strange
"Never aggressively roar at her to question whether she should be living in your town"
hmmm...weird, anyone shed any light??
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Latham Green, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
the good grammer one is sort of odd coming from someone who is responsible for the sentence "boobs or butts doesn't matter". also "bro's"
― thomp, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
grammer, yes
we have noticed a few people sending in messages regarding the similarity between
&
http://etiquetteforagentleman.tumblr.com/
For all we know, we started this blog before them and theirs was made recently
For all we know!
― ledge, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 10:24 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
OMG
I died.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
eh dan i kinda read that first piece of advice as more "if you call her out on anything she will transform into a wretched nagging harpy."
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^ like my wife
― Bert Macklin, F.B.I. (thebingo), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
otm that cold sore won't heal itself!
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
was going to post it on your wall in case you missed it, hahaha...
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
no to chivalry means yes to chivalry
hey they got rules for the laydeeeeez too
gosh that's a long word
― ledge, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Are we already running out of lol material at this blog?
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Okay why is #79 objectionable? Do you think your SO should be the first one to get hit if a car jumps the curb?
That is exactly what I meant re: the worst possible interpretation.
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey honey aren't your boobs sore.
― Bert Macklin, F.B.I. (thebingo), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
uh
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
ah come on dan all these things are so trite, no more than if you had a blog with "look before your leap" and "a stitch in time saves nine" etc etc on it
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg that rule for a lady
I don't have any interest in defending this shit beyond pointing and laughing at the ones that are actually ridiculous
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
doing our part for gender hegemony, one tumblr post at a time
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
The origin of Paul McCartney's 'Frog Chorus' explained...
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
where's the lady blog? gonna fwd it to a select bunch
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
what grown woman has a stuffed animal.
― Bert Macklin, F.B.I. (thebingo), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://therulesofladies.tumblr.com/
― ledge, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
wtf...paolo abdul said this, not paula coelho!
She should have three things from you. A pretty shirt, a sweaty animal, and a stuffed ring.
a wet t-shirt, sweaty balls and a cock ring.
― Bert Macklin, F.B.I. (thebingo), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
a knife, a gun, and a horse
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
truth bomb finally
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
lovely poetic ring to this one
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
the people submitting these are a trip
http://hesmyheartpainter.tumblr.com/http://shesmyheartpainter.tumblr.com/
― goole, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Do the gents and ladies sets match up? Does #81 for the guys say "You gots to get out there with a metal detector and find that treasure yourself. Idiot."?
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
if she can do the first part and survive at all i'll be impressed
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jesus Christ.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
think it was woody allen who once quipped "when going out with a man it is important to ensure mutual respect between both parties. after a number of years of seeing each other this will generally lead to a better and healthier relationship."
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
girls are s0 cRaZy
― goole, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
"if you can taste blood, you're doing it wrong"
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
setting the bar high
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
this one is just like a snippet of a banal conversation.
really want to mock up some like "if you are at the supermarket, can you buy me some scallions"
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
My girlfriend is a member of a book club where they only read these terrible self-help dating advice books that read like they hail from a time before feminism. I should post a few choice quotes when I remember.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
OMG the lady ones are so much worse.
Mad that I have some actual work I need to be doing right now.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
i.e. ignore the other 100 rules that encourage you to pattern your life choices around the happiness titillation of men
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah almost certainly. there's no real history in human culture of "unwanted love" or not even a proper way of describing it...
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
"happiness and titillation" I mean - xpost)
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
can decide which one is behind this
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
can't
ok my colleagues are trying to ignore my laughs here
jesus
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
like i don't even comprehend why these rules are gendered at all. most of the actual not-crazy advice on these can apply to anybody regardless of gender, and the ones that explicitly comment on gender are usually 100% fucked up.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
seriously expecting one of these lady rules to prohibit all excretory bodily functions
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
If you don't obeyconventional wisdom,she'll never forgive you.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
There is no sexin the champagne room.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
hmmm
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
men like football, women enjoy shopping
a man is a man, a woman is a woman
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
Maintain your mystery; never agree to see them again.
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
If you love him, tell him. Chances are, the Mayans were right all along.
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
THENo. 318RULE OF A PROLETARIAN
When you seize the means of production,don't forget to be amazing.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Maintain your mystery, that balaclava really suits you
― NickB, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
tracer <3333333333333333333333333
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rule Of A Lady #425:
Shame slutswhenever possible.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 14:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
Can't wait for some of these to turn up on dayo's zenlike koans thread.
― Terje Chocolate Orange (seandalai), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rule Of A Gentlemen #425:
Never call a lady slut.Even when you think she is.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
The No. 232 Rule Of A LadyWords create lies. Pain can be trusted.
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
A good master never beats his slaveEven if he deserves it
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
ugh judging by this thread the lady one is way worse
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^^^
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'd say you're otm, but, you're a woman
― goole, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 10:33 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
xp and lol again
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
strong Whose Line Is It Anyway vibe from this one
― ledge, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
I misread "crown" as "clown"
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
okay this has to be a joke.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
invisible crown is the only one that has made me lol, though
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
wait you mean you don't already do that?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wondering how many of the guy ones were actually written by a woman and vice-versa.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
"submitted by [random punter]" on most of the laydeeez ones, betraying the lack of bespoke attention to detail and high quality control as found on the gents blog.
― ledge, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
This sounds like the advice of Matt Foley, motivational speaker.
― EDB, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
boobs or butts doesn't matter
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's a puzzle
bums don't matter
― blueski, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
hips don't lie
― ledge, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
that's definitely the most mysterious imo
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
194 - I feel like there's some positive in that one though.
boobs or butts; doesn't matter
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
The No. 159 Rule of a Gentleman
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes.
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
need a gif generator stat
― ledge, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
boobs or butts don't matteranyone can seeboobs or butts don't matter...to meee....
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah with the semi-colon i guess it could be read as advising men to be equal-opportunity oglers.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
advice that was sorely needed
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
These need t-shirts!
― 27 Dresses, 13 Assassins (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
I said if you're thinkin' of being my babyIt doesn't matter if you're boobs or buttoww!
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
poll:
boobsbuttsdoesn't mattter
― no serenade no fire brigade just a trypophobia (Edward III), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 15:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
How To Hail A Taxi Cab Like A Man via art or manliness
how does this relate to 'being a man' at all, please someone tell me
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
ugh i dunno, i know it may be tiresome to call bullshit on this gender stuff ad nauseam but it bothers me that "competence at any task whatsoever" is somehow constructed as a "masculine" trait. really?
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, also, all those directions are completely obvious. i don't mean to be a jerk but how long does it take to figure out the off-duty cab thing? i guess i hail a cab like a man.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
"how hail a cab without looking like a dumb tourist asshole"
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
It was about 3 miles from my hotel, so I decided to take a cab.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
Realizing I was looking more and more like a dopey tourist, I gave up and decided just to walk to Katz’s.
Yeah, I could have taken the subway, but they’re fraught with their own complexities for the uninitiated.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey maybe the first step in reclaiming the "lost art of manliness" might be: don't get intimidated by the arcane complexities of public fucking transport
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
For well-known places in town, like the Empire State Building or something, you can just tell the driver the name of the place. But for hotels, friends’ apartments, or restaurants, give the address or at least a nearby intersection of the place you’re going.
okay really?
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Where are you going?""Jim's apartment."
haha
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
I want to submit "how to put on pants like a man"
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Shit like this is why I let my subscription to Esquire expire.
― отдых в Крыму! (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dan, when you put on pants, be amazing.She'll notice.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
How to Exit a Room Like a Man offers these helpful suggestions, each of which are followed by a full explanatory paragraph:
1. Know when to leave.
2. Stand up.
3. Hold out your hand.
4. Say “Thanks!” and “Goodbye.”
5. Gather your things.
6. Walk to the door with confidence.
7. Open the door.
8. Walk away.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
the fuck
7.5. Fart authoritatively.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
h8 this shitt so bad
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
omitting Step 7 can have tragic consequences:
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
2.5 Get dressed.
― Terje Chocolate Orange (seandalai), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
200. There's actually only one woman. She has been replicating herself for untold millennia. Across the ages, her characteristics and needs and desires are exactly the same across all iterations of this single extant woman, incarnated in billions of variable forms. A man is a person. "Woman" is a breed.
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
the unspoken subtext here - and in PUA guides - of helpless, infantile ineptitude - the inability to even be an authentic example of your own gender - is kind of heartbreaking in a way
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
10. Do not get a visible tattoo larger than your penis.
― отдых в Крыму! (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Don't know if that includes area or shape.
― отдых в Крыму! (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
idk at a glance like 60% of the articles on AoM are how to affect anachronistic or stereotypical masculine bahaviors, 20% are survival skills you will never actually use, and the remaining 20% are fundamental skills that anyone could benefit from but who cares because all that matters is that you can cook bacon... LIKE A MAN.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
I do rule 74 a lot
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
right, and 100% of those things are meant to wallpaper over the vast cracks of insecurity that the target audience apparently feels
like, women are assumed to just be themselves (for better or worse) but men have to be instructed how to be themselves, or at least how to be something more than a worthless piece of shit not fit to feed the pigs with
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
I am dying at "how to leave a room like a man"
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
(and i suppose in this way men's mags have finally caught up to women's mags)
xpost
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's p much a race to the bottom, tbh.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
how to leave a room is even more hilarious than I thought it would be
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
is it a choose your own adventure
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
2. Stand up. When they feel it’s time to leave, most folks start to squirm in their seat and say things like, “Weeelll…. it’s getting late.” Then they just keep on sitting on their duffs looking awkwardly at their watch. Don’t dilly dally. If you’re ready to leave, then show that you are. Standing up shows you’re committed to leaving.Now, don’t be abrupt about it. That’s just as awkward as squirming in your seat and looking side-to-side for a means to escape. Stand-up smoothly and confidently. While you’re standing, simply say, “Well I must be leaving.” Never give an excuse for why you have to leave. An excuse can make your hostess feel unimportant and force you to sheepishly explain yourself all the way to the door.If you want to be particularly suave about your transition from sitting to standing, try this trick. When you’re ready to leave, wait for a pause in the conversation and start a short story. Make it an engrossing, entertaining story. You want to leave them laughing. As you tell the story, start standing up. You can even start putting on your coat and hat as you spin your yarn. Walk next to your host when you reach the story’s climax. Give a quick wink to the group, and…3. Hold out your hand.
Now, don’t be abrupt about it. That’s just as awkward as squirming in your seat and looking side-to-side for a means to escape. Stand-up smoothly and confidently. While you’re standing, simply say, “Well I must be leaving.” Never give an excuse for why you have to leave. An excuse can make your hostess feel unimportant and force you to sheepishly explain yourself all the way to the door.
If you want to be particularly suave about your transition from sitting to standing, try this trick. When you’re ready to leave, wait for a pause in the conversation and start a short story. Make it an engrossing, entertaining story. You want to leave them laughing. As you tell the story, start standing up. You can even start putting on your coat and hat as you spin your yarn. Walk next to your host when you reach the story’s climax. Give a quick wink to the group, and…
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
No. 214 : "Do not touch the hiney unless you have earned her trust"― Latham Green, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 1:39 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
misread this as the whiney and wondered if area51 had visited the untranny valley in the interim
― princess timtam (cozen), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
fwiw i feel really bad for the kid whose dad wrote all those fucking rules for
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
316. Don’t stare directly into a dog’s eyes.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
unless you have peanut butter on your nads.
― Bert Macklin, F.B.I. (thebingo), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
why is everyone so bossy about this shit, is what i want to know
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp nuts on your nuts
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like the dad one...maybe cuz im a dad.
― Bert Macklin, F.B.I. (thebingo), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 17:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
this just confuses me. real men don't carry change??
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
how are you supposed to carry change except with an effeminate little-girl beaded change purse in the shape of chococat's head? i ask u
― A B C, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I thknk probably actually do the opposite of every hence suggested
― Latham Green, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah no, don't do that.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
The "dime" thing -- is that about the PUA rating system? Being a ten? I'm so confused.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Latham Green, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
yea dime = a ten
so remember that while "confidence is sexy" you should never have that much self-esteem
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
um, that is the exact opposite of what that piece of advice is incoherently trying to say...?
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
by the same person / people, apparently:
Problems and Advices (sic)
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha dan i swear i'm not trying to misinterpret these things i just apparently have serious trouble understanding
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean, who uses coins anyway? fags, that's who!
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
guys everyone knows that you keep coins in a jar at home so that, if you're like me, you can turn them in once a year and make $$$
ps i made $160 last week from stupid gay coins, eat it losers!!!
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
the "men don't carry change" thing doesn't really make sense, and isn't really a thing, it's just a dumb play on "dime"
― goole, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
anyway, am i wrong in detecting some race-y type crap in that one?
― goole, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
"DO not have pillow fights with her unless she wants to"
― Latham Green, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
i dunno if i've learned anything today except for "crowdsourcing on tumblr is a horrible thing"
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
My head just exploded.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
A cop will tell you in a half a second that someone who always looks you directly in the eye is lying to you.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
stare her down, bro
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Maybe a compromise would be eye contact/staring at boobs.
― отдых в Крыму! (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Her boobs, of course, to clarify.
this is just the worst advice. i know several women who would be fucking appalled that some twee blog-reading asshole in a bowtie would just pick them up & spin them around. some women don't like being tossed about!
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah but a fair amount of cop wisdom is essentially handed-down stuff that's not actually true. "someone who [exhibits x behavior] is lying to you" = the same sort of shitty reasoning that informs the stuff we're talking about here.
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
"... she'll love it"
*shudders*
someone who stares you right in the nose, however- watch that fucker
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
a fair amount of cop wisdom is essentially handed-down stuff that's not actually true.
The reasoning behind that one, though, I believe. It's because the perceived wisdom is that liars are shifty and never look you in the eye, so people who are actively trying to tell lies will always look you right in the eye, thus overcompensating for what is baloney to begin with.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
"yes, my precious darling, cry your little heart out. yes, just like that... it feels so good..."
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 20:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
copycat tumblr: http://etiquetteforagentleman.tumblr.com/
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
elmo you are KILLING it itt
kenan, interestingly I was just reading a book that claims that people don't do ANY one thing when they're lying. Also that human beings, even ones in law enforcement and related pursuits, are TERRIBLE at telling when someone is lying.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Apparently some people are naturally good at telling when someone is lying, and some aren't, and no one can explain why. (How many of those people are cops is beyond me.) It's like the way dogs can smell cancer. I'll look for a link.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
xposts and since liars who have heard this new piece of wisdom will make sure *not* to meet your gaze, cops can be assured that the non-eye-lookers are, after all and as originally suspected, the liars. Until the liars catch up to that one - then the paradigm will shift once more.
― boxall, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
my response to all of these blogs is basically "valerie solanas OTM"
― creme de cassie (donna rouge), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
aha but if you believe these gentleman rules, women are infallible lie detectors and can find anything out, so you should never lie to them. they can smell lies like dogs smell cancer.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
This increasingly reminds me of the "I'm one of the few men in the city with nothing wrong with him" answer machine message guy.
― got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
aha but if you believe these gentleman rules, women are infallible lie detectors and can find anything out
The overriding theme of most of these little advices is that women are a mysterious "other," instead of just other people.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not to state too much of the obvious or anything.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
About the Author:
― rockapads, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
― rockapads, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
rules for the manic pixie dream girl
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Where does "absolutely intolerable" fit into that scale, I wonder?
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
see ok the thing here is that i have met and had actual conversations w/women who would say that a lot of this advice is otm (in as much as this is how they think men really ~should~ behave)
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
dude no. "look you in the eye" nonsense is just infantile. you know who else won't look you in the eye? lots of people in whose cultural context holding somebody's gaze codes as aggressive. and people who were raised by people who come from that cultural context. seriously dude. it means nothing whatsoever if somebody isn't looking you in the eye, and if you take somebody meeting your gaze as a sign of anything other than "this person is meeting my gaze," you are being silly.
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
really? which ones?
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
nobody wants to be picked up and twirled, right? i just can't fathom that.
some do!! my friend rusty is lol hueg and would routinely do this (tho tbf in the context of dancing...he was into swing dancing) and some chicks went nuts for it. and i've had several lady friends tell me that they like it when men make them feel small, or whatever. not saying they're right, or that i'd want to date them (too much work), but not all of this is idle male fantasy. there are women that buy into old-fashioned gender roles/codes and shit. i wouldn't think this to be controversial!!
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
aerosmith, you're making my exact point. It means nothing whatsoever if somebody isn't looking you in the eye. But people who are lying to the police often think that it DOES mean something, because they heard it somewhere.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
And criminals are often not up on the latest articles about this kind of thing from the New Yorker.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
dude what are you even talking about
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
okay if any women reading this like to be picked up and twirled/like to swing dance i didn't mean to suggest there's anything wrong with that! i just dgi
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't understand what people are not understanding about what I am saying.
― DSMOS has arrived (kenan), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'll be honest kenan i'm not really reading it that closely
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 21:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Cops should pick people up and twirl them and if they don't like it then I think they must surely be criminals.
― NickB, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Twirl the witch!!!"
― WmC, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
can someone redo this with quotes from terminator and blade runner?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
fwiw a lot of the women i've met that buy into this stuff were chicks i knew in high school---i mean, my only point is that it codes as "old-fashioned" and there are a lot of old-fashioned ppl still out there!!
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP),
Seriously burst out laughing like mad when I read this.
― “this dog won’t hunt” doesn’t appear in the Book of Proverbs (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
feel pretty comfortable judging anyone who buys into this bullshit
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
I was thinking Conan...
― S'cool bro, I only cried a little (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Crush You EnemiesSee Them Flee Before YouHear the Lamentations of their Womenetc
feel pretty comfortable judging anyone who buys into this bullshit― ☂ (max), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:10 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:10 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark
ditto! it's not just dudes, tho!
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thees is a good thread. It mek me laugh. It mek me cry. But it also mek me verah confuse.
― The Boy Who Can Go Inside The TV (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
you're drunk
Ok how about andrew wk lyrics?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
give her a bandaid when she gets a booboo
― cause i'm close to the edge of glory i'm trying not to lose my hair (zachlyon), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
i've had several lady friends tell me that they like it when men make them feel small, or whatever
oh sure, i've heard this too and kinda understand the sentiment, and as a big guy who gives awesome hugs I've heard this too. but there are also women out there who do not like to be lifted off the ground because they do not like to be made to feel small or overpowered and just maybe if they've been sexually assaulted such show of manly strength might be a potential trigger. so i mean unless you know they like it then it is definitely Not Okay, gentlemen, no matter who tells you "she'll love it."
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 22:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
some of these rules are all "respect the lady at all times" while others are suggestions for things that are totally disrespectful in their presumption of what that lady wants / likes. taking a swing at your lady with a pillow might seem fun and spontaneous and silly to you -- pillowfight! squeeee -- but it's also a good way to get cursed out by a lady who doesn't like feeling assaulted!
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 16:52 (5 hours ago)
yeah, it's totally offensive. all these rules should be "work through your own insecurities then get over yourself" imo. then maybe you can have a relationship that isn't full of bullshit. so many of these for dudes are like "she has daddy issues? then be her daddy!" sex can be so much more than that. "advice" like this objectifies men as much as it objectifies women.
― hippy borthday, free wings for u (Matt P), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
so i mean unless you know they like it then it is definitely Not Okay, gentlemen, no matter who tells you "she'll love it."
yeah, ironically this flavor of "respect" seems to be outside the consideration of this blog
― creme de cassie (donna rouge), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
respect your woman, give her an allowance for dresses that aren't too tight or too loose every week, she'll love it.
― hippy borthday, free wings for u (Matt P), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
i love the tight/loose woman/lady dichotomy. for when you're too refined to just come out and say "virgin/whore."
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
<3 u max
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 8 June 2011 23:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
all these rules should be "work through your own insecurities then get over yourself" imo. then maybe you can have a relationship that isn't full of bullshit.
truthbOTMb
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 00:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just don't forget that being attractive is the motivation for your behaviors.
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is parallel construction also unattractive?
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
No kidding about asking first when picking up a woman and whirring them around. Once did this for fun and got screamed at pretty hard. Didn't mean anything by it.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
She calmed down once I got her back in her wheelchair though.
Major guilty lols
― “this dog won’t hunt” doesn’t appear in the Book of Proverbs (Trayce), Thursday, 9 June 2011 02:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
sorry i haven't read this whole thread but the "rules of a gentlemen" one reads as if its written by one of those 'sensitive' 23 year old virgin types, whereas the 'rules for my unborn son' is pretty clearly written by someone who reads 'esqure' obsessively
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
i would like judith butler to write a rules tumblr blog
― daria-g, Thursday, 9 June 2011 03:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
"rules of a gentlemen" one reads as if its written by one of those 'sensitive' 23 year old virgin types
'sensitive' tucker max variant imo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 9 June 2011 04:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Bert Macklin, F.B.I. (thebingo), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 10:31 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― (.づ☀‿☀)づ ~da post-modernist struggle~ (.づ☀‿☀)づ (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 9 June 2011 04:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wonder what ben rofflesberger thinks about these
― daria-g, Thursday, 9 June 2011 04:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
spirit of Marc Loi lives on itt
― badg, Thursday, 9 June 2011 05:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
would reblog
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 13:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's days like today that I am super thankful for my commute, which involves very limited exposure to the elements. It pays to work in the same building as your train station.
This is so OTM I want to give you a medal. Elmo also OTM over and over. Also, good odds that whatever horseshoe is thinking but hasn't posted is also 100% OTM.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hahaha okay that bit about my commute is for the Chicago thread. Or maybe it is my advice on how to be a lady:
Never get wet while commuting to work.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah that aero post is a+
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
THENo. 891 RULE OF A GENTLEMAN
Women can smell your fear.Compensate by acting like a fucking jackass.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
not all of this is idle male fantasy. there are women that buy into old-fashioned gender roles/codes and shit.
I don't think the point is that ALL of the advice is stupid or that NO people are ever like "this" or "that", the point is that IF YOU ARE LIKE THAT, THEN BE LIKE THAT, AND STOP READING ABOUT HOW TO BE LIKE THAT. Anyone and everyone who has said that this is about constructing a self made of outside advice because of your crippling insecurity otm.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok so there is also this:
what in the world
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
THENo. 322RULE OF A GENTLEMAN
Put a towel on the floor by the two-inch gap under the door.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
i mean okay i guess i can read a positive message in that but uh -- xp
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
How to Have Sex Like a Man
1. Engage in intercourse.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
loll
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
hmmmm...
fuck you girltips
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
also lol Tracer
*sigh*
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
"...bitch!"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is a pretty clear indicator of a borderline personality, y/n?
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
those kind of sound like random Facebook status updates TBH
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
I thought those girltips were ironic and meant to point out the craziness of the How to be a Lady ones, but I guess not???? I like that there is NO man worth a girl's virginity. None.
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh maybe they are!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah girltips is definitely not the same sort of advice but still horrible and disgusting, also pretty certain they have no satiric intent
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh jeez, these are all so, so fucking ridiculous, but I almost can't bring myself to get upset over them bcz it's only a niche thing that only ppl who already feel this way are going to seek out, not some huge widespread mainstream publication. Though OTOH this is, of course, just perpetuating all of this bullshit, and very few things set me off like queer/gender politics (reinforcement of dumb gender roles being a big one). Is it unfair to say that the ladies who eat this kind of shit up are probably just as dull and as the guys?
This is just really fucking stupid, I guess.
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
just, thank heavens for @feministhulk
brb gonna shoot myself in the face
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
i feel like the ladies who eat this kind of shit up are probably 12. maybe the guys, too.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
OH GOOD
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
that last one cannot be serious
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
I was just looking at the rest of the site and yeh, the context suggests that it's probably not satire :(
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
FOR SHAME
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
ya dude that jersey shore one is the one where you stop being upset and just ryde and walk away; these probably aren't changing anyone's mind or "teaching" anyone anything in the first place
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
okay wendy shalit
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ok I call bullshit on girltip #95. Fess up, whomever shopped it.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
hah DON'T YOU GET IT??? WE ARE ALL POLITE AND CHIVALROUS ANGELS WAITING FOR YOU DUMB SLUTS TO SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND KNOW YOUR PLACE
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
KIP!
― creme de cassie (donna rouge), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah these aren't "tips" so much as insane person rantings
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok this one is just making me lol
― creme de cassie (donna rouge), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
I CAN'T TURN MY HEART INTO A CONDOM
oh sure i know that steve. i just... idk i just feel horribly for the adolescent kids (and older ppl too i guess) who fall into this advice trap, i guess, even though they end up perpetuating bullshit gender types. it just plays into so many kids' deep insecurities that some obnoxiously opinionated ppl exploit to get followers & reblogs.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
i wonder if people were exposed to quite so much life-crushing idiot folk wisdom before the Internet era, feels like they weren't
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
they weren't basically huge swathes of content need to be machete'd out plus maybe the internet needs to be closed for a few hours each day or curfews put in place or something so that the people that write this crap, the people that read it looking for life cues and the ppl that read it and just feel slightly queasy at it all can have a break from it all and git real or whatever
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Noodle you are forgetting "fax humor"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
well i was gonna say Trace at one time u had to wait until you were in a horrible job before you got exposed to this shit so much, now it's out there for teens and younger
was also gonna say tho it's not just the internet, i guess reality TV shows have developed their own vocabulary and allowed a whole swathe of street philosophers to get their message out globally
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
i guess there were always wack-ass bumper stickers and t-shirts too plus real men don't eat quiche type books
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
t-shirts and bumper stickers are more like unfunny jokes that get less and less funny, whereas these kinds of blogs really set themselves up as HOW TO LIVE YOU LIFE 4 REAL
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, you're right.
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
good point you made connecting it to reality shows, too
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
i know someone who went abroad for a couple of years in the early nineties...and when she came back she was shocked and sorta mystified at how everyone seemed to be speaking in this new way, sorta like FRIENDS tv series-speak. can't imagine what it would be like to go away at the dawn of the 2000's and then come back to find people's speech peppered with all of the reality tv-isms
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
love the way "I'm just being real" became code for "FUCK YOU BUDDY I WILL BE AS NOXIOUS AND ENTITLED AS I WANT"
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
There have been women's and teen mags full of terrible advice for a long time.
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
yea for certain, but it's all ~decentralized~ now, all the kids telling other kids how to act horribly
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
#Ok. I just want to let you all know, I got more submissions and more hatemail and to be honest, this blog is meant to amuse and not to hurt anyone. Im glad I have publicity :) If im so hated, why do i have 1,218 followers? Pleasee.. Tell me:) Haters will hate. I will get back to posting new tips soon :) <3 xoxo.
1 hour ago / 5 notes
― goole, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
sometimes haters hate because the hated is just so hateable.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
i like to think if the internet was around in 1940 there wd've been all these butthurt nazis with "Haters Gonna Hate" gifs on their MeinSpaces
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
that feels like another reality TV invention tho, the whole "if you hate anything i say or do the problem is with you and not with me, ever"
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Starting at about age 10, I was consciously looking for help figuring out gender roles, mine in particular. 13 year old Jesse would have eaten a lot of this shit up. While I accepted feminist ideas, I also was influenced by the trend of bucking the strictures of being "PC," and I wanted desperately to fit in as a guy, so I could imagine myself acting out some of the crap from these sorts of advice sites.
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah, that combined with the idea that being a dick/instigating drama all the time somehow makes for an endearing personality trait is just bad news
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's not reality-TV, it's the self-help/self-esteem boom of the 80s
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
society is in the gutter iirc
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
you're probably right Dan, we shd institute an archeology of douchery in the post-War era
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just DOn't read this
― Latham Green, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'm aware of his work, isn't it mostly about beating women with all-natural weapons?
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I appreciated the girltip about menstrual blood because I have been letting it run down my legs and pool into my socks and never understood why people avoided me for five days each month.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.actlikeaman.org/
Men – we face tremendous pressure and stress everyday. Work will never be finished but if there is one thing we need to remember all the time – it is this:DON’T FORGET THE GIRL!In every movie that we see the main guy does his thing, fights the villain, slays the dragon for one good reason – the girl. He has to go and get back to his girl.Spiderman faces his villain who is holding Mary Jane. The villain is about to let go of her but at the same time he needs to save the people who are dying. He does his thing and saves the people while the villain drops Mary Jane. He does it on time but he gets back, swings his web and saves his girl.Husbands – we sometimes feel like Spiderman. We are given a choice everyday – do our job and love our family – both takes time.Do whatever you can to have a great job but not in the expense of having a bad marriage. A great marriage is worth more than our job. So in the course of doing our job – don’t forget the girl.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol Jenny
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
How could I forget the girl? They never shut up.
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.actlikeaman.org/category/homosexuality/
enjoy
― goole, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
Churches and the kind of MAN they produce
okay guys, nothing homoerotic to see here, move along
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
A Man’s mind is like a toolbox. A compartment for the nails, a compartment for the hammer, a compartment for every tool. Women are like their handbags. Have you tried getting something in a woman’s bag. It seems like every woman’s handbag has a black hole in it. Everything is mixed up and they like it that way and they have the talent of finding stuff in the bag.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jesus
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
that one i feel like i know actual people who secretly believe something along those lines
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
We are given a choice everyday – do our job and love our family – both takes time.
bzzzzt skrsssh crash
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
We are given a choice everyday – do our job and love our family – both are soul-destroying wastes of time, amirite fellas.
― goole, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
TS: "boobs or butts it doesn't matter" vs "We are given a choice everyday – do our job and love our family – both takes time."
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
we are given a choice everyday -- boobs or butts -- doesn't matter
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^ OTM
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
As skewed and fucked up as these are, can one at least make the argument that on some crazy level, there is at least an attempt to, y'know, be nice to ladies and treat them right (vs. being a blatant misogynist and etc)? Even if it is a totally batshit and bad way to do it?
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean tbh some of these are sorta OTM
no. no you can't.
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
boobs or butts -- both takes time
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
I see what you're saying and I sort of agree, but at the same time I can't help thinking
As skewed and fucked up as slavery is, can one at least make the argument that on some crazy level, there is at least an attempt to, y'know, be nice to slaves and treat them right (vs. being a blatant racist and etc)? Even if it is a totally batshit and bad way to do it?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
"the way to get exactly what you want from women is to intimidate them, be demanding, trick them, whatever""no no, the way to get exactly what you want from women is to be a magical prince who twirls them around"
hmm
― goole, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
you could in theory, sure, but it would still manage to be insulting and patronizing to everyone imo. at least the "treat 'em like shit in order to get laid" or whatever school is sort of straightforward in it's grossness
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
ha, so what goole said
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
yes but upthread people were scoffing at things like "walk on the side closest to traffic" which is kind of o_O
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh ok. i have no problem with that stuff
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think it's a lot easier to dismiss this kind of crap as mostly harmless or inconsequential if you've never been on the receiving end of advice like this.
I mean, I recently, as in the last six months, heard a judge scold a male attorney for arguing with his female opposing counsel because "She's to pretty to argue with." So these stereotypes exist, and are harmful, and while we can be all "LOL joeks" about them, there is a sincere audience for this and pretty much anything that reinforces this thinking is bad. Even if there are women who like to be picked up and twirled around or some of these things boil down to "don't be a dick."
Like, this kind of thinking isn't constrained to relationships. You get this idea beat into your head hat underneath it all, every woman wants to be treated like a very dumb child and that bleeds out into the workplace and then I, who have worked hard to cultivate relationships with people who see me as an individual with valuable opinions, get ignored at work because whatever I'm saying, I really just want a man to step in and relieve me of the burden of thinking so much.
tl;dr: this is not theoretical and the real life results of this shit is damaging.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think part of my problem with the blogxamples upthread is the italic font makes them much more glurgey and self-important than need be
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
nah i think most of us on this thread totally agree with that Jenny. the only humour is in how egregious and o_O this shit is.
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh god yeah del i was gonna say before the fonts on all of these drip with evil
I agree with that, Jenny; in fact, IMO the real definition of being a gentleman is "treat a woman the way she wants to be treated".
However, there are certain things I do which I will maintain until the day I die which are wholly innocuous such as holding doors open for people (not just women) which I do because I was taught it was the polite thing to do; encountering a thread where that type of behavior is lumped in with "pat her on the head and treat her like a child and maybe she'll fuck you" dismissals basically just makes me think most of my peer group is fucking rude. I guess if you want me to let a door close on you so you can prove that you can open it, knock yourself out (not on the door) but my default reaction is going to always be "I am going to take 3 seconds to hold this door for the next person" and there isn't anything nefarious behind it.
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
strangely, when my grandmother instructed me in this piece of etiquette she explained the reasoning for it like so: when people used to empty chamber pots out of second story windows, the person closest to the street was the one more likely to be rained on with excreta :(
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
the physics of that explanation elude me tbh
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
i've heard that too.
Dan i hold doors open for people and offer my seat on the bus to somebody who looks like they need it and whatever else but that's not done on a gender basis either
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Trace Tudor houses used to have upper floors that overhung the lower so whoever was furthest from the road was sheltered to an extent
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
definitely never let a woman defecate on your pumpkins
― Latham Green, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
now you tell me
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
well i guess the assumption would be that the chamber pots contents were flung towards the street? idk, my nan was big on manners but not so big on physics xp
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Tracer, in medieval cities, the building walls on the ground story had to be set back a certain amount to leave room for traffic, but in the absence of sensible building codes, people would overhang their second stories out over the street to gain more floor-space...sometimes leading to second-story windows that were so close to their across-the-street neighbors that people could pass things from hand to hand. Presumably these structures or types of structures persisted for a while until they burned down in some great fire or other and were rebuilt along saner lines as cities got better at that kind of thing.
So in this explanation, the person walking on the inside is actually UNDER the overhang and therefore sheltered from waste from above.
xxxp Oh DAMN. What I get for being tl;dr
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, my father-in-law who is huge on the PROPER ETIQUETTE OF ALL THINGS ALWAYS, constantly chides me on visits if I walk on the non-street side of my wife.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
I feel you, Dan, and agree but (oh god I'm sorry to go here) given the ~context~ in which that type of suggestion is presented, I don't feel too compelled to rescue the bits that could, if de-gendered and pulled out of context, serve as helpful hints for being a good person.
I mean, advice on how to be friendly that doesn't require the reader to separate what's solid from what's sexist bullshit exists.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
the proper technique is to carve the punklin FIRST
― Latham Green, Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
btw Jenny you are one of my favorite posters
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
i almost can't believe you're a woman, tbh!
― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
(ok sorry)
detailed advice about opening doors for women: http://artofmanliness.com/2011/06/08/opening-door-for-woman/
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 16:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
includes this little tidbit:
There are some women who are offended by it because they think it implies the inferior status of women–that women are too weak to open doors for themselves. Kate thinks that if you’re dating a woman who takes umbrage at having the door opened for her, that’s a red flag, because it signals that she does not understand that a woman can be smart and independent while still being playful about gender roles.
original emphasis btw
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
i heard that it was so that the person walking on the street side would shield his companion from stuff kicked up by cars and carriages
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
The whole thing is crowdsourced, right? I think the context is all over the place tbh.
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
I mean, despite appearances I'm not overly interested in defending these things (lol), it's just that the mocking seems to go beyond actual batshit things to stuff that I'm pretty sure most people on this thread do all the time.
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^ oops i forgot blockquotes are all italicized. the word playful was italicized in the original quote
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
xps
The proverbial splash of the puddle, as it were.
― jaymc, Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
With double doors, open the first, but not the second. When there is a door, and then an entryway airlock area, and then another door, open the outside door, allow the woman to step inside the airlock, and then for the second door, do as indicated above and simply help the woman open the door as she .... (continues)
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol gbx.
Also taken to gendered extremes, even casual kindness gets ridic and counterproductive, ie being the lone woman standing in the back of a crowded elevator only to have the men climb on top of each other like lemmings to clear a path so I can exit first. Like, my fragile ladymind can handle the crushing humiliation of getting off an elevator last.
I also think, again in a work context, casting these politenesses as things men must do for women carries an undercurrent of women being delicate needing a certain amount of coddling and gentle treatment that only men can provide. As a woman working in a very manly area of law, that kind of attitude is poisonous and also makes me want to strangle people.
Note: I am not playful about gender roles.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
How To Apologize LIKE A MAN
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, June 9, 2011 1:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i dont walk on the street side when i walk with my gf tho! and (no offense) i would probably roll my eyes at any guy who insisted on doing so
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
i know a single woman who wears a wedding ring just to eliminate like 80% of this crap
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
red flag; you have been cited for lack of playfulness
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
jenny otm
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
the apology thing seems pretty otm imo
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's not about "insisting"! it's about "offering"
lol my wife would really hate this conversation as it's basically telling her she is a bad woman for being Southern
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
no one thinks yr wife is bad, just that shes attached to behaviors rooted in anachronistic & outmoded concepts of gender that contribute to discrimination against women
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
idk tracer i just fail to see what makes an apology "manly"?
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
well yeah me neither
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
artofhumanness.com - not taken
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
With revolving doors, reach out and slow it down so that she can step in. This rule is especially true for older revolving doors that lack the auto-revolving feature that many modern revolving doors have.
iirc debrett's says a man should go in first to push the door, but make a complete revolution so that the lady can exit first. that's pretty stupid, but not as stupid as trying to slow the door down, because if someone is coming the other way - something which is a major feature of revolving doors - they'll get stuck while mr art-of-manliness is dicking around.
― joe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
what in the hell
― goole, Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
"risk breaking your damn fingers and grind the flow of people to a halt, because a woman is around"
― goole, Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
yes see, this makes no sense ergo I get mocking it
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
i don't understand opening a door for a woman after she's already started to open it herself!
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
xxxxp Actually, chamber pots were usually taken to public privies and dumped.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 9 June 2011 17:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Jenny so otm
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dan the critiques aren't really about women who are accustomed to courtly behavior!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
If I walk through a door and someone (of either gender) is walking behind me, I politely hold the door open. But if I see someone who's way behind me, I won't hold the door for 10 or 15 seconds. But sometimes, there's that in-between walk-behinder who I'd have to hold the door for about 5 seconds, and I'm never sure whether I should hold the door for her, or if it would look odd that I'm holding the door open for so long (of if it will imply I want her to hurry up, etc.)
How many seconds behind you must someone else be before it's acceptable to let the door close behind you?
― Lee626, Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
it depends on how good-looking they are, obviously
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
if the door would swing fully closed by they time they reached it, then maybe it's ok to not hold the door? leaving the door to swing closed in their face just as they reach it seems like a dick move.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 18:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
just realizing that Art of Manliness is largely co-authored by a husband & wife team
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
if i could identify a common theme in much of this "being a gentleman" / "being a man" nonsense, it would be "false nostalgia":
Whenever I’m watching a movie that harkens back to a sepia tinted yesteryear, it isn’t the simpler times I long for so much as a return to the distant days when a man rose alongside the sunrise and was expected to give the daylight his best.Clothes were sharper, adolescence shorter, and the word man still deserving of the first spot in the word manners. Now it seems as if there is something missing, something stripped from today’s men, besides their buttons and blazers. I peer at photographs of my grandfather in his prime, and ponder the polarity of our worlds. A dozen decades have hurtled by with such speed; it seems they have left our populace with a case of collective amnesia. I look past the creases of my curling photographs, grateful that I can still teach my son what I believe it means to be a man.The fellows in those old photos look like they had manners, you can practically see them. Even greasy and fatigued, they never went outside without a hat to hold the hair upon their head. It is difficult to believe that they would have left behind their pleases and thank yous. If it were only manners abandoned, things might be easier to explain to my boy, but it isn’t. There is a mindset now missing, an outlook thickened by decades of languor.
Clothes were sharper, adolescence shorter, and the word man still deserving of the first spot in the word manners. Now it seems as if there is something missing, something stripped from today’s men, besides their buttons and blazers. I peer at photographs of my grandfather in his prime, and ponder the polarity of our worlds. A dozen decades have hurtled by with such speed; it seems they have left our populace with a case of collective amnesia. I look past the creases of my curling photographs, grateful that I can still teach my son what I believe it means to be a man.
The fellows in those old photos look like they had manners, you can practically see them. Even greasy and fatigued, they never went outside without a hat to hold the hair upon their head. It is difficult to believe that they would have left behind their pleases and thank yous. If it were only manners abandoned, things might be easier to explain to my boy, but it isn’t. There is a mindset now missing, an outlook thickened by decades of languor.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
i gagged
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
of course these men had manners. not a drunk, a gambler, a wife-beater, or a degenerate bastard among them! i can tell, you see, because these photographs are old.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rule #743:
Wear a hat... to hold the hair ... upon your head
― boxall, Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
re: "baby"
I call my gf "baby" all the time but in the context of "quit being such a baby" bc babies are the only minority group I am comfortable disparaging
― Alderaan Duran (Will M.), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
You see, that congressman was RIGHT, babies are the most AT-RISK MINORITY IN AMERICA TODAY.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
okay no
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
everything about that is wrong
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 19:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think once you start having 216 rules, you might not actually be all that much fun to hang out with.
― NickB, Thursday, 9 June 2011 20:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think an exception should be made re: Rule 216 for the gentlemen with a stomping fetish
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 20:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
I decided to be playful with gender roles today and when the elevator arrived at our floor and the two dudes who were right in front of the doors stepped back and away from the doors so I could enter first, even though I was farther away and they were there first, I just stood there. We had a standoff until the doors started to shut and I caved and got on because the elevators in our building are super slow and I was really hungry.
In conclusion, feminism is dead.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 9 June 2011 20:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeh, how the hell is sticking to old-fashioned gender roles "playful"? Being "playful" with gender roles is Madonna wearing a suit and tie.
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 20:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
I thought the bend-over boyfriend trend was the end game of "playful with gender roles"
― mh, Thursday, 9 June 2011 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
Is that some new doll?
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 20:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_Over_Boyfriend
― mh, Thursday, 9 June 2011 20:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
people call it wordplay when somebody mispronounces something in a song
people r dumb
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 9 June 2011 21:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think the being "playful with gender" sentiment is just a shading on the "humorless feminist" stereotype?
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 21:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
he hit me and it felt like a playful
― goole, Thursday, 9 June 2011 21:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
i dunno, maybe it's "playful" in the way where they all dress up like Mad Men characters and revel in the superficial pleasures of midcentury gender roles? i have no fucking clue tbh
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 21:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
someone should do a parody of one of these that describes the series of chemical reactions started off by the sry gene in the y chromosome
― ideas are death (Lamp), Thursday, 9 June 2011 21:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
rulesofasevenweekoldembroyo.tumblr.com/
― ideas are death (Lamp), Thursday, 9 June 2011 21:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Z S, Friday, 10 June 2011 01:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
i hate this awful person, btw.
fucking weird
― Z S, Friday, 10 June 2011 01:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like to imagine that same guy standing over his cowering gal shouting "GIGGLE FOR ME! ONLY FOR ME!"
― free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Friday, 10 June 2011 01:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
that one just reminds me of the weezer song
― ☂ (max), Friday, 10 June 2011 01:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
rivers cuomo is not a dude whose attitudes toward women one would want to emulate
he seems to have some ideas about people with southeast asian heritage iirc
― mh, Friday, 10 June 2011 03:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
heh - both of the last two posts def true based on things I've heard from someone who was on tour with him
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 10 June 2011 03:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
I don't know if touring musician-time is something I would fully judge someone on.
Fucked up life.
― mh, Friday, 10 June 2011 03:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
I guess but still.
also
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, June 9, 2011 12:11 PM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol <3
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 10 June 2011 03:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
- I usually hold the door for people out of politeness, not out of any 'hay look I'm a lady and I'm holding the door for dudez'...but over time I've sort of learned that especially with older, like 60+ fellas, it's like some genetic chivalric duty and they wither to dust if they are denied (or they get really mad)...but I'm not above having a door opened for me either. It's not like I'll refuse. But if my male friends try to be all, "no you go first" when I hold the door I get bolshy and yell at them til they go through the door. Because it's fun.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 June 2011 03:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Holding-doors-open-for-bitches-cause-your-a-classy-cunt/151250144944959
― Circlework de Soleil (S-), Friday, 10 June 2011 13:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
A man is a person. "Woman" is a breed.
couldn't help notice that the titles of the gentlemen / lady rule blogs subtly echo this ^^
The Rules of A Gentleman (singular) vs. The Rules of Ladies (plural)
(sure ok it's probably a url availability thing but it's cultural implications did not escape my hypervigilant eye, no sir)
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
even more:
http://tobealady.tumblr.com
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp lol i just tried to post that one
is this a fucking koan?
― goole, Friday, 10 June 2011 14:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
"if you are outside the house, you are not in the house"
hahaha
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh whoops i just i didn't have that one, heh
― goole, Friday, 10 June 2011 14:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
wait, waht
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
If you can see the back of your bra, you're a good enough contortionist for a Russian circus.
― Monsieur Naturel (WmC), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
er, "i guess i didn't have that one" i mean
anyway, am i being a little bit unfair in wondering why this one:
is... brown?
― goole, Friday, 10 June 2011 14:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
okay lol
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
piper-laurie-with-knife.jpg
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Friday, 10 June 2011 14:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^^
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Guess I have to stop wearing that T-shirt where I cut out two squares int the front on "casual day" eh.
― free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh, okay!
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Gross.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
"plus, ribs are delicious"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
This stuff all reminds me of the Mormon-penned manuals for teen girls my mom would buy me, except without tips on French braids and testimonies.
― free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh i'm sure tips about French braids and testimonies are in there if you search long enough
― brodie_odie_dope (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
To Be A LadyNo. 081
You deserve the best in life,So if the time isn't right then move on.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh man this stuff sucks so bad
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've crossed a threshold and now all of this stuff is just stupid
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
I hate gender roles
― Latham Green, Friday, 10 June 2011 15:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
To Be A LadyNo. 145
If you're wearing pants,You are wearing pants
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
to be a lady "When you pull down your lady-panties - allow the crotch to get stuck for a moment in the secret hair temple - men love it. "
― Latham Green, Friday, 10 June 2011 15:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
"...I promise"
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
I just want to rewrite all these with the lyrics to "Freaks of the Industry"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
To Be A LadyNo. 107
Keep your public hair trimmed.Seriously, girl, it looks like kudzu down there.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
no hairpanties
― Latham Green, Friday, 10 June 2011 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
To Be A LadyNo. 305
When performing fellatioDon't neglect the testicles!
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
To Be A LadyNo. 037
If your booty starts to make that clappin sound,Tell him to take it out and put it in your butt.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
O_O
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol Tracer, now I just want to start posting Yin Yang Twins couplets and quotes from "Oochie Wally"
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Rule of a Gentleman No. 173Like it was your last meal.
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 10 June 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
― brodie_odie_dope (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 10 June 2011 16:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
hah, i'm imagining these with lines from "tales of taboo"
― creme de cassie (donna rouge), Friday, 10 June 2011 16:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is not a famous person but it's a fucking world-class fall - love the way one actress can't un-shake herself but the lead just heads right back into the scene
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 10 June 2011 16:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
wrong thread, but still lol
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 June 2011 16:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
massive lol, that is one of my favorite falls of all time
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 16:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
also homegirl is ACTING, she is incorporating that fall into her character and showing concern that her deaf and blind ward just faceplanted hardcore
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Friday, 10 June 2011 16:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
maybe she did it on purpose to make the point taht the character is blind
― Latham Green, Friday, 10 June 2011 16:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Was there not a gentlemen in the theatre who could have made his way on to the stage to give her a rub?
― NickB, Friday, 10 June 2011 16:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://www.brotipshq.com/
ffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Sunday, 12 June 2011 17:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
i have no words
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Sunday, 12 June 2011 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
751!!
― free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Sunday, 12 June 2011 17:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
uhhhh has dude ever put on a condom before?
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 12 June 2011 17:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― markers, Sunday, 12 June 2011 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
these seem more like 'jokes bruv' whether dumb or not
― lebroner (D-40), Sunday, 12 June 2011 17:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Sunday, 12 June 2011 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah these are just bad jokes & dont seem partic serious in terms of gender role policing
― lebroner (D-40), Sunday, 12 June 2011 17:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg lol
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Sunday, 12 June 2011 17:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
alpha fish, bro
yea i see that but it's interesting to me at least because by the very fact of presenting this particular species of masculinity is instructive -- it's just focused on male gender performance in relation to other males and not towards women
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Sunday, 12 June 2011 18:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Bitches are just a distraction, bro.
― mh, Sunday, 12 June 2011 18:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
that doesn't even make sense
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
you better work!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
rule 218 is fucking creepy
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah it makes it sound like girls as a breed are serial killers
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
it is very impressive of them, i think, to isolate the one dream of a girl.
― d(▽＿▽)b (c sharp major), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
and to discover that it is dressing up in your flayed skin just to feel close to you. ♡
seems more like 'give her an old tshirt. bitches love that shit and you need new tshirts anyway'
― goole, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
who are these fools?!
its like congrats, you have discovered the niche of menswear tumblr bloggers and know how to publish your thoughts on the prestigious internets, stop writing rules & being so narrow minded about gender
maybe these presumptuous rule writing young people should ENLIST IN THE MARINES
― daria, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
― goole, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:39 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i think that is what it means, decoded, but the attempt to class it up is hilarious/nonsensical/creepy
xp lol
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
the idea that women everywhere just want to take things from men is also a little creepy
tshirts are for rubes, real gentlemen know they have to up their game and give her something she'll really treasure, ol van g knows what's up
― d(▽＿▽)b (c sharp major), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
"I saved you some turkey."
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
<3
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha i'll never really understand that meme
― goole, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'd never heard it and suddenly it's all the rage
― goole, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg dude, really????
If you start throwing out random words, she will lose interest fast.
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
well i never
― goole, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
aw i was hoping this was a group we could all join
http://is-is.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2256487864&topic=12106&post=67188
― goole, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
So much LOL in that other thread. Thank you, ILX.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 02:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
just saw a girl riding a bike no hands carrying a large frozen bird
she was kinda cuet
she knows!
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 16 June 2011 17:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Friday, 17 June 2011 13:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
like a kitten!
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Friday, 17 June 2011 13:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
... she'll love it!
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Friday, 17 June 2011 13:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
(p.s. no tongues)
― cloaca flocka flame (NickB), Friday, 17 June 2011 13:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
lmao
― arachno-misogynist (D-40), Friday, 17 June 2011 13:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://agentlemansguide.tumblr.com
ok this is passably funny in a tongue in cheek way
― america's next tot mom (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
this on the other hand:
intensely creepy
― america's next tot mom (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 18:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
~parody~
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 30 June 2011 02:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
haaaahahahaHAAAA
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean... no. you probably shouldn't be doing that.
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
~so sensitive~
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
as long as your surreptitious about it.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
you're ;_;
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
No. 249:When she takes out an order of protection on you, check up on her more often.
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
when she realizes you're a dickbreeze, never change.
― the sonning-googler effect (Matt P), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 18:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
"hey, so it's been a couple of days since I dumped you... how are you holding up?"
^ who does this
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dudes who want to assuage their guilty feelings, or are hoping for a post-breakup fuck. In my previous experience of dating jerks, anyway.
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
If you break up with her, pull her even closer and hug her even tighter.
― bernerrrrr! berrrrrnowwww.... (Eazy), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
"It must have been extra tough on you to have gotten dumped by someone as great as me. I can only imagine how that must feel."
― relentlessly googling hipster (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I still don't have anything planned Friday, do you want some sympathy sex if I can't find a new date?"
― mh, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
hmmm.
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Blowjobs pretty ok too, I believe.
― mh, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
a lady doesn't think so, i guess
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
sometimes trumpets
― HOOBASTANK is my co-pilot (DJP), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
iirc a lady will also, on occasion, blow this popsicle stand
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
ladies also sometimes blow kisses afaik
― (｡◕‿‿◕｡) (ENBB), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 19:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
bubbles
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 20:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
ass
― HOOBASTANK is my co-pilot (DJP), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 20:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
what about blown my beeper up
― mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
If there's anything a woman should suck, it's a champagne popsicle on a hot summer day.
― bernerrrrr! berrrrrnowwww.... (Eazy), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 20:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
The benefits of being a beta male
― ljubljana, Monday, 25 July 2011 23:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sorry, not actually a blog
hell yeah
― mh, Monday, 25 July 2011 23:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's interesting that you can use poo to infer stress levels
― badg, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 04:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.americasmanliestcities.com/
BROUGHT TO YOU BY COMBOS
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 2 September 2011 04:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
LA got less manly after i moved there
― zsa zsa and digweed (donna rouge), Friday, 2 September 2011 04:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Good to see that my hometown of Louisville, KY rated #3 in Salty Snack Sales
and that my current city, Baltimore, MD is #1 in number of people with Manly Occupations
*grunt of manliness*
― the tune is space, Friday, 2 September 2011 05:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
“Manly Kryptonite” Category / Emasculating Criteria*Cities also lost points for an overabundance of emasculating criteria – factors that reduced a city’s manliness rating. These factors included the number of home furnishing and décor stores, cafés/coffee shops, sushi restaurants, “modern” male apparel stores and cupcake shops. Cities with higher concentrations of these types of stores lost rating points.
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Friday, 2 September 2011 12:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am proud that Chicago has dropped 17 points. We just got a new sushi restaurant in our neighborhood, too, so I'm hopefully we'll fall into the bottom half in 2012. Maybe the Bears will move to Iowa.
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Friday, 2 September 2011 12:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Chicago has way too many bead shops to be manly. Fuck that, I'm moving.
― Jeff, Friday, 2 September 2011 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
how the hell was Charlotte the most manliest city in American in 2010? Are bankers more manly than other professions?
― Jeff, Friday, 2 September 2011 14:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Okay wait, how is San Francisco consistently topping the "emasculating" category not some homophobic bullshit?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 2 September 2011 14:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not even on the list, I'm not a man anymore
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Friday, 2 September 2011 14:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I see MAine is forgotten like on most lists - good
― Birth Control is Sinful in the ILE Marriages (Latham Green), Friday, 2 September 2011 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Maine is pretty manly iirc
― unwarranted display names of ilx (mh), Friday, 2 September 2011 14:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
no - not Mike Hanle y's Maine - maybe Bill Green's Maine
― Birth Control is Sinful in the ILE Marriages (Latham Green), Friday, 2 September 2011 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
can't spell maine w/o M-A-N iirc
― zsa zsa and digweed (donna rouge), Friday, 2 September 2011 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
can't be a Mainer without sticking yoru hand in the tree beast
― Birth Control is Sinful in the ILE Marriages (Latham Green), Friday, 2 September 2011 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
How is sushi not "manly"? You're eating fucking RAW* MEAT**!
DD's post made me think: you know what I think is manly? CBT - cock/ball torture. But no, I'm sure if prevalence of participation in CBT in a particular city were a factor, it would be in the faggoty girly crap "kryptonite" category.
― it was as good of a time as any to show a lighter side of 9/11 research (Je55e), Friday, 2 September 2011 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
*not always raw, but often
** fish is meat, FUIUD.
but maybe CBT is already a sub-category of "Salty Snacks"?
― the tune is space, Friday, 2 September 2011 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
My ex-bf used to say - and he was being serious - that it took a real man to take it up the butt.
― it was as good of a time as any to show a lighter side of 9/11 research (Je55e), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
I recently read an article about gaining weight in the anus - I wonder if that can happen
― Birth Control is Sinful in the ILE Marriages (Latham Green), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
My ex-bf used to say - and he was being serious - that it took a /real/ man to take it up the butt.
Makes sense to me.
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
really it just takes a butt
― max, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Weird that your quoted text shows the italicized "real" with slashes.
― it was as good of a time as any to show a lighter side of 9/11 research (Je55e), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Maybe bc I'm using ZING!
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe it takes a real man to slash the butt
― Birth Control is Sinful in the ILE Marriages (Latham Green), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh lord
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 2 September 2011 18:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Whoa.
I mean, I get what he was saying, and I've heard other sodomites say it: it takes a sense of security in your masculinity and some physical fortitude, but really, it's kind of a gay argument.
― it was as good of a time as any to show a lighter side of 9/11 research (Je55e), Friday, 2 September 2011 18:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
It takes a real man to zing the butt
― Birth Control is Sinful in the ILE Marriages (Latham Green), Friday, 2 September 2011 18:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sadly I do not think being a power-bottom counts as a "manly occupation" in these rankings.
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 2 September 2011 18:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's sad he was etc etc
― it was as good of a time as any to show a lighter side of 9/11 research (Je55e), Friday, 2 September 2011 19:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
it takes a man to be such a powerbuster powerbottom as to actually motivate out into the hallway during the power
― did you c/p that randomly or what (Latham Green), Friday, 2 September 2011 19:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Do Real Men Wear Halloween Costumes?"
http://bit.ly/utOfEg
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Do real men suck cock?
― whoop, up the butt it goes (silby), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
AW: At the end of the day, we who are interested in men's wear are always in "costume" (well, most of us). Not everyone has perfectly-fitted, light-padded Cucinelli jackets, or high-watered Thom Browne suits. We are the ones who are always "vulnerable," having paid our dues 364 days of the year. We are always out of the comfort zone. What is more abnormal than looking (slightly) normal on a day of abnormality?
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― elmo argonaut, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
that dude has a micropenis
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
itt blogs instruct you how to clench your butthole so tight your head will never not be stuck up it
― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean i kinda get that this article is just straight trolling, but still
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
man sometimes i want to punch everyone at esquire and i've never punched anyone
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 October 2011 19:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not wearing a Halloween costume during Halloween is actually the ultimate costume. (...) Last year, I took the risk and wore the "ultimate costume." Some girl asked me what I was, and I replied "the best dressed one here."
you do not understand halloween. kill yourself now.
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbf that is a truly horrifying "costume"
― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbf that is a truly horrifying "costume"person
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
if I don't wear a costume, I always tell ppl I'm dressed as a douchebag
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Austin Wong more liek Austin Wrong.
― cheque out my debit to building society (snoball), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
his tone is national review online-esque and reminds me of religious anti-halloween types, except replace "god" with "self-involvement."
― ah, how quaint (Matt P), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Damn, dude, if you don't want to dress up for Halloween, don't dress up. You don't have to write an article to justify it.
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Like I bet that guy is just tiresome.
Last year, I took the risk and wore the "ultimate costume." Some girl asked me what I was, and I replied "the desiccated husk of a man, forevermore devoid of joy and wonder"
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Another good one is to look the person in the eyes and deadpan "You're worst fucking nightmare." Although there could be some creepy gender dynamics there so use it wisely.
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also be certain to use the correct "your."
depending on intent, your first version was also correct
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Breaking news: A pretentious douchebag was murdered at a Halloween party tonight..."
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was going to say, more like if I'm ever at a party with someone who says that I'm going to "spill" a drink on them.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
follow up with "now you can say you are dressed as a wet blanket"
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Clever!
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
I never wear a costume but I never try to be clever about it either except for that one time when I quoted Wednesday from Addams Family
― Muammar for the road (Michael White), Friday, 28 October 2011 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Straight Talk: A New Breed of Fashion Bloggers
here are some male fashion bloggers who can tell you how to dress nice but not get all faggy about it (honestly, they are totally macho and tough, you bet. yup.)
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
did this already get linked
http://www.gq.com/style/profiles/201112/menswear-street-style-oral-history?printable=true¤tPage=3
basically you should read the first bit of that so you "get" the joke and then read this
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/An-Oral-History-of-the-Time-We-Read-emGQems-Oral-History-of-Menswear-Blogging
― max, Friday, 13 January 2012 15:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Good job Justin Bishop gives us a heads-up on his heavy sarcasm.
― ledge, Friday, 13 January 2012 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm a lady, and maybe this is upthread, but I find The Art of Manliness pretty interesting sometimes.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 13 January 2012 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like that the nytimes article elmo linked justifies my belief that these guys have the most boring tastes outside of fashion, and that says something about their tastes in that realm.
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 16:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Hi I would like some clothes that smell like stuffy old rooms full of leather or whale fat and the patriarchy, please"
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 16:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
the only blogger i care about in that article is mister mort tbh
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
mostly because he's not really "fashion" i guess? at least not at all in the others are
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 16:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
hey elmo, are there actual men fashion/clothing bloggers outside of the hypebeast-type people who are into modern materials/new stuff? Can't think of anything too much in the way of examples, maybe something like the arcteryx veilance line?
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 16:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
my general feeling is that there's not a lot of interest in invention or new technology from men's style blogs atm? at least among the blogs i've been paying attention to. tradition and heritage and craftsmanship and all that are still the prevailing influences and people only really get excited about technical fabrics when someone makes a sport coat out of one
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
but! that is just my view, there may be that stuff out there but i'm not sure where
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
i completely understand the backlash against/hatred for the sartorially inclined double monkstrap "blogger blue" db blazer types. the weird rap blog dialect thing, the circle jerking, stfu abt "pitti," etc etc.
what i don't understand is why no one is talking shit about the put this on guys. especially the main one. the wet eyed fat faced goon. maybe he makes ugly/dumpy internet types feel like they can play too? the guy just skeeves me out.
these dudes are mostly useful for pointing out sales without having to trudge thru styleforum threads.
i do like "an affordable wardrobe" and "a suitable wardrobe" quite a bit. those dudes have some good ideas on how to live.
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
also, dudes
and harris tweed diemme hiking boots come on guys
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh man, i hate put this on so much, i'm sure i've posted lots about it on ilx
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
an affordable wardrobe i can get down with but a suitable wardrobe is completely insufferable imho
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 17:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
the guy is fucking nuts tho. he's making these proclamations abt the well-dressed gentleman like $500 at a time. "well ah yes naturally one will want 14 pairs of bresciani socks to wear with one's $350 velvet house slippers." i guess he writes for forbes or something? and is paid in diamonds and rare works of art? b/c there's no way he can be that rich just from selling ludicrously overpriced "gilets" to people over the internet.
i dunno, he's a window into this totally square clueless white guy fantasy world and even if he's just faking/aspirationing it he's very convincingly square and clueless.
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
see also "mostexerentbrog"
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 17:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol exactly. the yeah die workwear / ASW / PTO / most exerent style of menswear blogging really just irks me endlessly, I feel like there's a barely veiled class antagonism underlying all of their commentary
but whatev, i lol @ the time the die workwear dude got quite butthurt when I implied he was classist
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
somehow i knew exactly who you were talking about: i tried watching the first episode a couple years back and i just could not believe that this guy was serious. sure, he was wearing expensive nice things but he just looked like a crepey dweeb who took men's fashion blogs waay too seriously
but then again, what do i know? my relationship to men's fashion just basically boils down to subscribing to a bunch of feeds, flicking through the pictures, and absorbing the styles and trends through osmosis
― pat methamphetamine (diamonddave85), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm looking on the NYT piece, just the title, "STRAIGHT TALK" like hey can you BELIEVE that these MALE FASHION bloggers DON'T SUCK DICK? i know, right? weird!
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wonder how some of these guys would react if there was a woman who really liked the styles they post and was wearing them. AS A WOMAN! What if she was even hetero!!
― mh, Friday, 13 January 2012 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
'wet faced goon' redeems this thread
― 404 (Lamp), Friday, 13 January 2012 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dunno that it's classist--like i said the most useful shit these guys do is point me to sales where these clothes/shoes/etc are just at the upper bound of what i can reasonably spend on clothes/shoes/etc--so much as it's a redirection of typical nerd hyperfocus onto cultural producers unused to that kind of uncritical scrutiny, which becomes this insular infinite loop of self-love very quickly. which is why the NYT piece is so weird. these aren't really football, beer, bro-down guys, these are guys who in a more perfect world would have 6 maxed-out world of warcraft characters.
i may be projecting here, as whatever nerdiness with which i approach clothing is the same nerdiness with which i approach comics or mtg or food or whatever else i get into. it's just more acceptable to the wider world.
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 19:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dunno, i definitely see some class issues at play, but it's less about the actual price point than being able to discriminate the quality, timelessness, and luxury. the rules of style they pass down are established by the formality of ruling classes, and there's a working assumption that in order to dress better you have to dress wealthier.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
not a blanket statement but i feel it definitely applies to ASW / PTO / most exerent
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
but enough of that, fight the real enemy:
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol someone I know irl is 'obsessed' with getting custom made double monkstrap shoes
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
probably reads a lot of instructional blogs
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
double monks make people feet look like action figure feet imo. like plump little torpedos.
― adam, Friday, 13 January 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Good lord, are monkstraps having a revival?? What fresh hell.
― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
double monkstraps in particular, if you can believe it
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 January 2012 20:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Friday, 13 January 2012 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
i guess it's in bad form to make fun of dumpy lookin' ppl for just lookin' as dumpy as god made them -- but holy jesus lol @ this dude's creepstache
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
omg came here to post that pic, that fkn guy
― adam, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
i feel a little bad making fun of dude for being ugly but i don't think i would even notice if the rest of his steez weren't so ridiculously affected, he always looks like he's in costume
― adam, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
While we can't all have M White's impeccable bone structure, that guy up there does not need to look as droopy and completely ineffectual as he does. Those are carefully considered style choices, is what is amazing.
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
IMO dude can have either the Charlie Brown hair swirl or the molesterstache, but not both
― Chaka Collar, lemme rock you (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Does he look like someone who spits when he talks? His lips are probably always wet with spittle.
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
*shudder*
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jesse Thorn is pretty cool imo. Who cares if he's ugly.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think he's "ugly," I think his style choices are lamentable, and you know they were exceedingly carefully considered, which is even worse. They all work to accentuate his flabby-seeming, overly precious overgroomed-ness. It's like he's running toward his own annihilation with arms wide open.
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
That PICTURE, gah! The turtle-like head poked forward, everything so affected.
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
holy crap, that's Jesse? I listen to his podcast, he's great! I pictured him looking more like Ned. So weird.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
eh, i'm not familiar with his other work but imho the whole ethos behind Put This On just makes me wanna barf
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think the ethos of trying to convince schlubby internet nerds to dress better is pretty solid, even if the style choices aren't the best.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
you mean trying to convince schlubby internet nerds that buying italian luxury brands on ebay will make them stylish
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think the world would be better off if more blogs just convinced schlubby internet nerds to shower regularly
― Chaka Collar, lemme rock you (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
preppy styleblogs are God's revenge for all the people who hated Americana/workwear
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have a lot of love for OTT fancy pants menswear but this whole tumblr dude thing is totally a secret street-level marketing campaign for something called "drake's of london," purveyors of the finest neckwear in the world that i have never seen anyone wear ever anywhere besides the internet.
and telling men to dress better is one thing if the end result is that the aggregate level of well-dressedness is raised so that people say stop wearing flip flops. it's another to make getting dressed into another pointless obsessive snobbish internet thing. fashion magazines at least have this aura of fantasy around them, models prancing around in cucinelli. it's weird irl (or in pictures of irl).
― adam, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
way otm, the cult of quality shit is pretty much the worst
i mean i'd like to think there is a way to instruct men how to improve their style without getting all snobbed up on craftsmanship, quality, privilege, bespoke, heritage, aspiration, class, etc, etc
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
it kind of starts and ends with "buy clothes that fit you"
― Chaka Collar, lemme rock you (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean please tell me, what the fuck is going on with this:
The Put This On Gentlemen's Association is a very serious members-only organization dedicated to the adornment of the jacket pocket. Every other month, you'll receive via US Mails a pocket square, hand made in Los Angeles exclusively for Association members. How it worksEach of our fabrics is hand-selected by Put This On's Jesse Thorn - including vintage pieces, prints from the finest mills in the world and everything in between. Squares are cut and their edges rolled by hand in our Los Angeles atelier. A member for one year can expect to develop a full wardrobe of squares - or to compliment the wardrobe he already has. As an added benefit, if you join for a full year, you'll receive not just a handsome discount, but also a bonus white linen square, with our compliments.Are you a man, or a gentleman? Join the Put This On Gentlemen's Association now.
How it worksEach of our fabrics is hand-selected by Put This On's Jesse Thorn - including vintage pieces, prints from the finest mills in the world and everything in between. Squares are cut and their edges rolled by hand in our Los Angeles atelier.
A member for one year can expect to develop a full wardrobe of squares - or to compliment the wardrobe he already has.
As an added benefit, if you join for a full year, you'll receive not just a handsome discount, but also a bonus white linen square, with our compliments.
Are you a man, or a gentleman? Join the Put This On Gentlemen's Association now.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
It is a gross but understandable attempt to give people a reason to pay money for videos they could watch for free.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's a very serious members-only organization, tho. deadly serious.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 20:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
also they have an atelier, which is way classier and more expensive than a workshop, because it's kinda french.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
hahahahaha omg I didn't actually read that before
they have got to be fucking kidding
― Chaka Collar, lemme rock you (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Assholes like this are why I swore to never wear a suit outside of weddings and funerals.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
prints from the finest mills in the world
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
but dan, you get to pay $45 every two months for a square of silk you don't even get to see in advance, how can you resist that opportunity
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Put This On Gentlemen's Association is a very serious members-only organization dedicated to the adornment of the jacket pocket.
DEDICATED
― Chaka Collar, lemme rock you (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
For his other show, donors receive cookies that Thorn's wife made. Seems like a better deal.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Are you a man, or a gentleman?
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
― adam, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
p sure that's a put this on gentlemen's association hand-selected silk pocket square dude's wearing
― adam, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol 'hand-selected' is killing me tbh
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
I just assumed they sent out a robot to get the fabric tbh
― Chaka Collar, lemme rock you (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
and telling men to dress better is one thing if the end result is that the aggregate level of well-dressedness is raised so that people say stop wearing flip flops. it's another to make getting dressed into another pointless obsessive snobbish internet thing
Or is it a wish-fulfillment reaction-formation against the Apatow-years of manchildren. If you look like a grownup from 1955 then maybe you'll act like one? If anything, this movement/marketing campaign just rechannels the nerd consumer obsession from gaming to bespoke tailoring, but theres a weird cargo cult psychology going on that's bothering me.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
also:
The Put This On Inside Track is a special premium service of Put This On, the blog and video series about dressing like a grownup. We're famous for our eBay roundups - selections of fine gentleman's clothing and accessories plucked from obscurity and put on display to the world. Of course, with that notoriety can come many bidders, which is why we created the Inside Track.How it worksEvery week, you'll receive a hand-curated list of eBay auctions not found anywhere else. No more worrying about the hoi polloi sniping away your precious garments. We'll also throw in whatever sales you might be interested in online and around town, and the occasional wise observation. (We're extremely wise.)For just five dollars a month, you'll get the inside track on dozens of fantastic auctions and sales. It's like we've taken the world's largest clothing bazaar and transformed it into a Greenwich Village boutique.
How it worksEvery week, you'll receive a hand-curated list of eBay auctions not found anywhere else. No more worrying about the hoi polloi sniping away your precious garments. We'll also throw in whatever sales you might be interested in online and around town, and the occasional wise observation. (We're extremely wise.)
For just five dollars a month, you'll get the inside track on dozens of fantastic auctions and sales. It's like we've taken the world's largest clothing bazaar and transformed it into a Greenwich Village boutique.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
'hand-curated' ebay links, people
omg
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Or is it a wish-fulfillment reaction-formation against the Apatow-years of manchildren.
this is kinda funny given how paul feig's all about "suits" and "looking classy"
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is actually fucking brilliant in terms of extracting money from ppl who don't stop to think things through
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
brb hand-curating myself
― ‘Banksy bacon burgers’ and ‘Shepard Fairey Bread’ (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
No more worrying about the hoi polloi sniping away your precious garments.
hands of my boglioli, you stinking plebe!
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
― adam, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
that guy up there looks like n/a were n/a not handsome and less douchelly dressed.
― quincie, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
why are people with popular style blogs so bad at style??
― # (Lamp), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Traditional style purveyors actually do have skill
those who demonstrate this are co-opted by the establishment or at least recognized and absorbed
leftovers are those who either vary strongly from traditional styles and therefore are perceived by many as of low quality or not interesting
the remainder, which we're probably going over, think they're doing something new or interesting but it's probably not that good to someone with a style vocabulary
― mh, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mean, my style vocabulary is quite lacking and I could see myself being taken in by some of these, but I tend to avoid any club that'd have me as a member
― mh, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
to compliment the wardrobe he already has
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 10:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
the whole "how to dress like a classy grown-up gentleman" schtick is obnoxious and borderline offensive but isn't even the worst, i mean:
40k+ notes on this. ugh, tumblr.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 12:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 12:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
just reminding myself of awful my gender is, kill all men btw
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 12:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
smash the patriarchy instead imo
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha you're a prince, elmo, fwiw
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
that last one is more "rule of a stalker"
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
men are supposed to do all the stalking in the relationship, iirc
― mh, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
as long as you're wearing a well tailored suit it's not stalking.
― zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I want to submit terrible things to them along the lines of "Keeping the heads in Ziploc freezer bags helps avoid problems with the stench"
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 14:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Always keep a few zipties in your pocket."
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
"If she's been homeless long enough, odds are no one is looking for her."
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Condoms are for those unfortunate enough not to own a latex bodysuit and butcher's apron"
― mh, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Nothing shows you care more than a trip to the Everglades."
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
"The more you stroke her hair, the more likely she is to stop crying."
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
"a well-tailored suit is to a woman what lingerie is to a man: something special to wear while masturbating in front of a full-length mirror."
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
elmo, you're giving me serious "watch out, he's calling from inside the blog" vibes here
― mh, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
"nothing says 'i love you' like tattooing her name across your face"
― summer sun, something's begun, but uh-oh those tumblr whites (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean yeah, as a gay man the heteronormative stuff irks me, as a guy who tries to be a feminist the gender role instruction bothers me too. i have a couple of followers who are trans men and i have to wonder what their experience of MAN BLOGS are like
i dunno, obviously i have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this, some day i am going to write a long boring blog post about it that references judith butler or something instead of rambling on & on itt
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
I really hate heteronormativity. It's kind of my most hated thing. I think being in relationships where I realize there are these unspoken assumptions as to roles that I just don't buy into really clued me into it
― mh, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
the underlying wounded/entitled male pride in these is the weirdest, i think, cf the penultimate graf of the 'from a guys point of view' piece: "a guy who will love you (i'm so kind), no matter how bad you make them feel (you're so ungrateful)"
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
isn't that just code for "I will put up with all of your bullshit if you let me hit it"?
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbh, I have lost multiple sweatshirts to girls.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
my gf's grad school friend's bf has one of these blogs, I don't think it has been linked and don't want to direct traffic from here2there but it does follow a lot of the themes upthread. he is a small well-groomed academic-y kid, I don't think he means much harm to the world.
― iatee, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's just the basic lonely nerd approach to relationships tho--"why do women always fall for these clear-skinned, football-watching assholes when she could be watching DS9 reruns with me? i'd be nice to her always. and forever."
one would think "rules of a gentleman" would be etiquette stuff, opening doors etc. this kind of axiomatic approach to more intimate relationships is def creepy. it's enacting two distinct strains of distasteful heteronormativity--first the jockish women-as-acquisition high-fiving strain and then wrapping it up in the above lonely nerd i'm-a-nice-guy strain. then codifying it. and tumblring it or whatever.
― adam, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
uhhhmm i don't know how to say this not-badly, but what does it 'mean' that all the tumblrs linked by this 'therulesofagentleman' person all seem sort of girly to me? idk maybe it's tumblr itself
or maybe i was expecting a lot of very serious theorizing about the nature of women these days, instead of just pretty pictures and inspirational quotes.
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Seeing through her eyes is easier if you freeze them before drilling the holes."
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
hey there're loads of nice girls out there willing to watch ds9 reruns with nerds, this is clearly not the issue
― teaky frigger (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
cheer up boys, there's a Morgan Webb out there for you somewhere
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have to give somebody a "man to man" talk tomorrow at work. maybe i shd print out all the rules of a gentleman stuff as cue cards.
― summer sun, something's begun, but uh-oh those tumblr whites (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
just buy him a tailored suit ffs
― teaky frigger (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've found that one thing that really puts the kibosh on sexual harassment is the right pocket square
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
omfg
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
the fake profundity of this shit gets to me as much as if not more than the fucked up conservatism re gender/sexuality
― max, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean the self-serious idiocy makes me want to throw these guys out the window
― max, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah but the sense of the guy sitting back and looking pleased with himself after each pearl of wisdomg is kinda funny
― summer sun, something's begun, but uh-oh those tumblr whites (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
pearl of wisdomg
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
OTM. Or even nerd ladies instigating/encouraging the Star Trek viewing/convention attendance/ST book binging. I am just saying.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
hisdom
― teaky frigger (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol barf
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
max has been RTing some quality posts from @MensHumor that feel pertinent ttt
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think it's fair to say some of these 'gentleman' rules are submitted by girls, tho -- princesses in search of their prince charming or whatever -- which complicates things. sometimes i'll get a reblog with the comment "my future husband will dress like this :) :)" and the tumblr bio is "i love preppy stuff and dogs and jesus" and i'll be honest, it kinda freaks me out
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
prepster puppies 4 jesus
― teaky frigger (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:18 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lost my shit @ this btw
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
should be on a t-shirt or something
"Ladies cannot resist a man in a suit or a chloroform-soaked rag."
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
why are people with popular style blogs so bad at style??― # (Lamp), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:06 AM (18 hours ago)
further evidence: the dude from a continuous lean
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
MY LOOK ISBASED ONLOOKING LIKEA FUSSY VERSIONOF A NORMALDUDE
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
"LOOKS COOL"
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol "LOOKS COOL" is really my only criterion for anything i put on myself so it's not really what i want to hear from someone whose ostensible job it is to blog/write about these things
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
OUTFIT CAREFULLY DESIGNED TO HIGHLIGHT MY LACK OF NECK
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
BOUGHT A BUNCH OF NICE LOOKING SHIT AND JUST PUT IT ALL ON AT THE SAME TIME
― max, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dude not uncuet otherwise although I feel like those are the shoes of a tool.
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
also, people who should know better, misusing their color terms! i know this is a nitpicky peeve of mine but if you are a fashion professional you prob shouldn't be saying 'hue' when you mean 'value' imho
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
COLLAR ---> POPPED
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
He's like some miraculous Gap Truman Capote.
― You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
i know this makes me a bad person but i dont care about these blogs terrible attitudes towards gender/sexuality or their tedious consumerism or class fetishism or any of that it just makes me mad that they suck at clothes, that they help other ppl suck at clothes and that they think they dont suck at the clothes
― sisqó inferno (Lamp), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
like cool walk around thinking that woman are objects like pocket squares and if you get a beautiful pocket square than youll get a beautiful woman but yr still a dork in an ugly pocket square you paid too much money for
― sisqó inferno (Lamp), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
rolled up sleeves + unbuttoned cuffs nagl fwiw
― dayo, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
okay if they are actually "in" the pocket square they have many more pressing issues to deal with, like public indecency charges
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
also that pic is cracking me up because dude looks a lot like a composer acquaintance of mine who is essentially the exact opposite of that
i get what u mean, lamp, i guess these blogger attitudes are all kinda gross in a particularly dull & commonplace sort of way that makes them easy targets for this type of cultural criticism, sure sure. maybe i am just resentful of a world where nerdy jerks who suck at clothes get paid for it. the angst of it all.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
mostly i just think they serve to reinforce ideas about dress that are fundamentally conservative and uninteresting. not to ignore the ideas of class and gender and status that get coded by how we dress but itd be interesting to see more bloggers who werent so slavish to these received ideas i guess
― sisqó inferno (Lamp), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
can't believe i haven't mentioned 'nice try, bro' among the #menswear dudes i revile, i can't even start
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
that picture kind of looks like he is a tube of toothpaste and the scarf is toothpaste spilling out the top
― mh, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
losing my shit over this right now, so many lols
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
what the hell
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
at least now I understand Ed Hardy shirts
haha that is actually a givenchy sweater, i've seen it around in streetstyle photos but lol lol lol FASHION FOR MENS
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
this thread makes me sad that killfile only exists on ilx
― judith, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
yo elmo nice try bro is awful but at least i understand what he's trying to do, kind of, and understand that he fails at it all the time. my most reviled just b/c i don't understand it at all is the most exerent guy. there's your bizarre privilege/class thing right there with the faux-pidgin english and the unfunny verbal/caption tics and and unholy amounts of money being spent on fabulously ugly $$$ bike clothing and snooty from-on-high maxims re: what to wear (written in the same faux-pidgin). one of those people that are so clueless due to their unearned-fortune insulation that even if were one to sit him down and heap abuse upon him he would just shrug it off. like a 13 year old on youtube shrugging off the haters.
that's the most frustrating part about all this--i feel like that if i had the opportunity to explain to one of these guys exactly how terrible he is all i would get in return is this combo blank stare/smug defiance-of-the-avant-garde vibe. and the internet stops being fun when one can't make one's displeasure colorfully known.
― adam, Thursday, 26 January 2012 14:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol, that blog would be vastly improved if he would stop posting pictures of his goddamn cappuccino
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I get the impression some of these guys think they are the avant-garde, like finding cool workwear or nice bespoke menswear or whatever is some sort of startling rediscovery
― mh, Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:54 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is what i was getting at upthread fwiw
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 26 January 2012 16:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel)
man that sent a chill down my spine.
i feel like the type of lifestyle advice w/r/t women as noted here is the flipside to "the game" but it's all part of the same movement, guys trying to be big men in the world, players who want to end up in the same place but use different methods. all commodification of women, this stuff here is condescension just disguised thinly as chivalry.
― omar little, Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^^^^^^^^^^That is a good summation of why it rankles me when dudes (especially the sexist old attorneys that lurk around my workplace) make a big show of letting me out of an elevator first. These same guys have no compunction calling me sweetie or treating my like a secretary instead of a colleague, but damn they let me out of the elevator so clearly they respect women!!!
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Letting women off the elevator first is one of those social conventions. People are afraid to break them, probably out of fear of being thought badly of, or they just learn a certain way and never think about it, or don't like breaking down their sense of how things are for "somebody else's benefit". Which I find pretty lame, but life can be pretty obnoxious.
― Spectrum, Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
I get that, but I can usually tell when the guy is going along to get along and when the guy wants a cookie for being such a respectful gentleman. I also know quite well which of these specific guys goes on to treat me like his personal assistant by virtue of my being proximate and having boobs, and which guys treat me as a professional equal. I interact with these same bozos every day.
I'm talking about a pretty closed environment here, not getting angry at the innocent men caught up in the system.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Although I don't really have any patience for people who perform certain social conventions by rote w/out thinking about them. Get one critical thinking, humans.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm always like "get me offa this death trap", gender be damned i'm the first one out the door, costanza stylee.
― omar little, Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fuck yeah.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
idk if they think of themselves as avant garde, but yeah, there is definitely an elevated sense of purpose among some that's kind of reactionary -- keepers of an imperiled tradition, with an exaggerated idea of just how good those good old days were
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 26 January 2012 18:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
not sure if this belongs here but: http://www.michaeljamesmilton.com/
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 26 January 2012 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
fuck this asshole:http://mostexerent.tumblr.com/post/16450215130/better-to-be-the-1-which-is-not-like-99-of
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Friend's boyfriend showed her one of the Man Rules, in bed, that said "a woman is never sexier than we she doesn't care" or give a fuck or something like that. She explained that he shouldn't push that angle because then he wouldn't have a place to live.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was hoping that story would end with her saying "I am so glad you agree!" and then farting massively.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
my suggestion was to stop shaving and bathing
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Go off anti-depressants, stop washing hair, stare nonresponsively into space all day.
NEVER SEXIER.
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
You can never have enough pocket squares.
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
aw but doll, but I love when it's ~just you~, the **real you**, because you don't need to wear makeup or dress fancy or even exercise daily hygiene to convince me you're sexy, baby
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol @ that site
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
i wish it was parody
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
you'd think one of the pocket square dudes would work in a knowing handkerchief code reference or something
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean okay, i won't knock the hustle, i like a few of those fabrics, and if you can get $25 a pop that's cool, good for you, but hahaaa the product writing is really... bad
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Three furry loved ones reside and play while the sewing machine's pluggin' along, so apologies if a stray hair or three accompanies your order. If you're at all allergic, take heed to wash your items before usage.
absurdly unprofessional imo
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
allergy note: this pocket square processed on a equipment that also processes small mammals
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
may contain soy
― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
sorry about the occasional pubic hair, I sew naked
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
hahaaa the product writing is really... bad
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:39 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the dude is notorious for this...which is why i thought to put it in here. his whole schtick is d-grade parroting of design-will-save-the-world conventional wisdom, rendered in awful prose
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbh I also sort of had the impression that "pocket squares" were not proper handkerchiefs but smaller bits of fabric that were nonfunctional but looked nice when folded up in your vest pocket. would be way less annoying if they just called them "handkerchiefs" but I guess that's just a marketing decision to appeal to annoying tumblr bros
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
omg the rules of a gentleman are the exact same format and font as the "bro code" rules that every himym ends with.
― hhhhhh Bill I juste like ertronic thinges (NZA), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
― hhhhhh Bill I juste like ertronic thinges (NZA), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
The unofficial Japanese navy trilogy: Crosses ‘n’ Diamonds, Denim Bulbs, and Plus Links.These three large 19” x 19” kerchiefs have a wide variety of uses, and while we don’t officially offer them as a three-pack, they were sourced at the same time and formed a complementary bond. They embody a sort of motorcycle-centric aesthetic, driven with a range of moods and styles — enough to take you through an array of adventures.
These three large 19” x 19” kerchiefs have a wide variety of uses, and while we don’t officially offer them as a three-pack, they were sourced at the same time and formed a complementary bond. They embody a sort of motorcycle-centric aesthetic, driven with a range of moods and styles — enough to take you through an array of adventures.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
ugh @ backwards baseball caps
― ☂⋒ﬡᙓ-૪ᗩᖇᖙᔕ - ᙡ ᖺ ᗝ Ḱ ᓰ ᒪ ᒪ (diamonddave85), Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
"rappers"
― lukas, Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
"you don't want to dress like ... uh ... a rapper, do you?"
what the fucking fuck
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh hey, an implied association between "rappers" and "the (mentally) handicapped," nice
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
unless they mean all those wheelchair-bound dudes with sideways baseball caps, because that's a thing right
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe they mean people with full on headgear/backbraces, such that you have to have the brim at an odd angle so it can stick out of the wires
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
why does it have a picture of Neil Patrick Harris under it? IDGI.
― Frobisher (Viceroy), Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
i guess you guys don't watch nbc's "how i met your mother", oops
― hhhhhh Bill I juste like ertronic thinges (NZA), Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
it is a joke being told by a character on a television sitcom
― hhhhhh Bill I juste like ertronic thinges (NZA), Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I just interneted a bit and now I understand the connection.
― Frobisher (Viceroy), Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I do not watch HIMYM because of jokes like this, tbh
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
btw I've known the Put this On guy since he was 17, but he didn't have time to fit me into his schedule when I was in LA last summer either bcz he's doing too many podcasts or bcz I dress like Bill Murray.
I do not approve of baseball caps being worn by ppl who don't like baseball. Also, if you buy a cap that's been altered from the actual team colors, I reserve the right to shoot you.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 January 2012 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
the more you know≈≈≈≈≈★
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
~the game~ by neil strauss
― dayo, Monday, 30 January 2012 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
putting this here because idk where else it goes:
I have said for sometime now that the menswear blog game is VERY much like the rap game, and I think most of my fellow hip-hop heads will agree that the beef era of hip-hop from about ‘92 to ‘03 was the best. While literal shots being fired is never good, the fact that you had people going at one another made for great music. Biggie v. Pac, Cube v. Common, Nas v. Jay, 50 v. Ja Rule, Em v. Benzino/The Source, Jeezy v. Gucci the list goes on and on. It forced all parties involved to come correct with everything they did because they knew that if they slipped up it was more fodder for their opposition. The same can be said for menswear: sometimes you need differing opposing voices to push one another. It forces you to think about why you dress the way you do. My only advice is if you are going to criticize someone’s dress, do so intelligently and not just, “Look at this dickhead taking himself too seriously.” *Drops two cents in to empty bucket*
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
are you fucking kidding me?
― mh, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
#menswear dudes getting all sore from superfuture aggression, i guess
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
the menswear blog gamethe menswear blog gamethe menswear blog game
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://journalator.net/2012/01/punk-portraits-fistful-of-style-alex/
so that dude went from wearing one ridiculous costume to another
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
can we just spam all of these guys with links to Menswe@r videos
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
He’s a #menswear rebel, whose “maximalist” style and tooth-and-nail devotion to thriftiness nips at the heels of the often-pricey “What to Wear” culture of men’s fashion. “Take me with a grain of salt and a whiskey back,” he tells readers.
― lukas, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
aw, haha, i like alex! i met him the last time i was in portland. he's quite friendly and doesn't take himself terribly seriously, and i guess i have an affinity to him because he's a fellow thrift store junkie. he can be a little weird and i can't say i'm 100% into his style all the time, but eh, c'est la vie
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
the menswear blog game
is there a travel edition of this
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
for sure, though, the "whiskey drinking menswear rebel" label is maybe a little eye-rolly for me xp
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol yes, donna, and it has a pop-up-shop-o-matic bubble
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
someone who's more knowledgeable about hip hop should address that above quote and the general hip-hop fandom in & appropriation(?) by the #menswear crowd because idk enough about it beyond feeling it to be weird and problematic
(iirc the author of that quote is black, btw)
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't know that you have to be knowledgable about hip-hop to see preppy white bloggers appropriating terrible cliches ironically as problematic. Not much to address beyond that - the whole of this lot seem to be douchebags playing dress-up with both clothes and words.
basically, it's ironic rap covers 2012 edition
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 19:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, there's that I guess but it's not exactly broken down on racial lines as there are some dudes of color in the mix, too -- like, i see that there is an definitely aspirational elements to some hip-hop, even a preoccupation with luxury that these blog dudes latch onto earnestly. also the functional belief that material success invalidates all criticism from haters -- like "i got written up in gq & nyt so what you have to say to me is meaningless." like, even if the comparison to the rap game is laughable on its face, it's still somehow informing how these guys are "performing" iykwim.
idk, some of these are maybe phenomena that are not exclusive to hip-hop, maybe they are just american, but idk. blame kanye maybe.
p.s. someone please stop me if i am just talking out my ass & nobody cares abt this but me
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
btw I drink a lot of whiskey and resent these guys taking that label as much as I am annoyed at this rap game metaphor
― mh, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 23:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
*shoots self in face*
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 2 March 2012 15:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Are Wranglers "Lame Basics" or "Peasant Shit"?
― beachville, Friday, 2 March 2012 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
peasant shit, obv. p sure baldwin / apc denim are lame basics.
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Friday, 2 March 2012 15:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
https://secure.details.com/contact/ask-a-gay
ASK A GAY
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Sunday, 29 April 2012 05:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Q: How much chest-hair exposure is appropriate?A: There's nothing more unappealing than a forest of hair growing out of your shirt, so I would opt to leave only the top button open. If you have officially ventured into what we call Bear Territory, take a cue from us gays (well, most of us gays) and make sure you're baby-bottom smooth (by way of hot wax) before even unbuttoning that much.
I have a weird, paranoid theory that I grew as much body hair as I did by watching so much Magnum PI that I subconsciously modeled myself after Burt Reynolds as a sort of ideal of manhood.
Wish my subconscious had created me in the image of Bo Duke instead.
I know that's not how it works...or is it?
― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Sunday, 29 April 2012 09:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
You mean Tom Selleck
― mh, Sunday, 29 April 2012 16:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Both are good in their own way.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Sunday, 29 April 2012 21:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
idk i think some men can benefit a lot from chest hair, in the same way some men's faces are advantaged by well groomed facial hair, it can be a good look imho
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 14:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
but the gay has spoken, you guys, so depilate yourselves and pronto
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 14:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
I knew a guy whose chest hair was visible even when only the top button of his polo was unbuttoned
― dayo, Monday, 30 April 2012 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
you knew my 5th grade teacher?
― catbus otm (gbx), Monday, 30 April 2012 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
jjjusten was your 5th grade teacher?
― Meanwhile, on some cars... (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 30 April 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think there's some sort of doomsday scenario where the neckbeard and the chest hair merge, creating an unbroken swath of hair. Very rare.
― mh, Monday, 30 April 2012 15:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks to this post, I will be calling jjj "Doomsday" from now on
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
this really is not as rare as you think.
I guess I'm totally out of touch with this hairlessness thing because most of my dudes are p hairy, and the ones that aren't came that way. was chatting with a girlfriend (eight years my junior) though and she had recently hooked up with a guy that shaved everything everywhere and said something to her like "I like to keep completely shaved, and I'd expect the same from my partner, it's a courtesy"
this generation is doomed imo
― catbus otm (gbx), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
at least I know now why they fidget all the time
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
I should probably get a haircut and eat fewer cheeseburgers before I start waxing my junk.
― Meanwhile, on some cars... (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think completely-shaved dude is an oddity holdover from last decade
― mh, Monday, 30 April 2012 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
I blame Marilyn Manson
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
i am just bristling at the whole concept of 'ask a gay'
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Men who trim their pubic hair: insecure or thoughtful?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
elmo u remember this lil show called queer eye for the straight guy?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean this is details magazine, which i thought had a pretty gay readership so i guess i don't understand the need for this blog column??
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 15:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
that show should have been called Obvious Eye for the Hopelessly Inept
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
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― caek, Monday, 30 April 2012 16:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
just -- among all the mainstream men's style mags i always thought details was the highest on the kinsey scale
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
itt blogs instruct you how to be a supreme sissyboy glamfaggot
― madame boo berry (donna rouge), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
ASK A GAY: WHAT'S THE BEST UNDERWEAR FOR STRAIGHT GUYS?Your straight buddies may be evolved and your girlfriend plenty chic, but even in this day and age, there are some questions that only a stylish gay man can answer.Q: What kind of underwear is the sexiest for a straight dude?A: Uh, none at all. Trust me—I've noticed in gym locker rooms (come on, everybody peeks). If you must wear an extra layer, go with Calvin Klein boxer briefs. They're flattering and classic—remember those Marky Mark ads?
Your straight buddies may be evolved and your girlfriend plenty chic, but even in this day and age, there are some questions that only a stylish gay man can answer.
Q: What kind of underwear is the sexiest for a straight dude?A: Uh, none at all. Trust me—I've noticed in gym locker rooms (come on, everybody peeks). If you must wear an extra layer, go with Calvin Klein boxer briefs. They're flattering and classic—remember those Marky Mark ads?
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
fucking hell
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
What is a good kind of underwear, elmo. I'm straight, btw.
― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
the best underwear = the removable kind, imo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
A seersucker loincloth is more than enough support for today's modern man.
― I will transmit this information to (Viceroy), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
I find that the best underwear is a marmoset
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
burlap or gtfo
― madame boo berry (donna rouge), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
a few sprigs of lavender & rosemary wrap the whole thing in muslin & tie with string a la bouquet garnis
delicious
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
lolling hardcore
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm fond of a nice cock cage myself.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm not a stylish gay guy but i would like to encourage anyone reading that column to think twice before putting any of his advice into practice. just based off the commando underwear answer
― Mordy, Monday, 30 April 2012 17:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's so sad that this cartoon gay is trapped in the 90s
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
A: There's nothing more unappealing than a forest of hair growing out of your shirt, so I would opt to leave only the top button open. If you have officially ventured into what we call Bear Territory, take a cue from us gays (well, most of us gays) and make sure you're baby-bottom smooth (by way of hot wax) before even unbuttoning that much.
I might be weird but a completely hairless chest is odd and offputting to me, like a hairless cat. I'm glad I'm not dating anymore.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
if someone tells you that you need to shave your chest, basically don't trust that person's opinions on anything
― madame boo berry (donna rouge), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I just wear a trench coat w/dress socks & garters.
― Meanwhile, on some cars... (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
white boxer briefs are not flattering btw
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
unless you are mark wahlberg
It's great how "marmoset" is such a comedy word all by itself.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 30 April 2012 17:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wear boxer briefs but own no white ones because ewww gross
also boxers are ok but I worry for the future of my groin without some sort of undergarment that provides some support
― mh, Monday, 30 April 2012 18:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think letting your weenie bounce around a little bit is going to give you a hernia.
― Meanwhile, on some cars... (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have a few white pairs of boxer briefs, but they were only purchased because they were the only color left in a brand whose fit I like.
― frogsclovetofu (beachville), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha mh, if that is on your concern list then sex must just be full on torture for you
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't do boxers or free balling. Feels weird to not have support, though I'm not worried about damage.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
i too have been in locker rooms and not everybody should be flapping their dong around, keep it under wraps if you have a weird penis thx
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
i once saw flabby guy who was likely in his 60s in a gym locker room wearing nothing but some of those fun sexy colorful briefs they make for teen twinks, it was the saddest thing
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd guess that everyone in that locker room who saw that probably left feeling a little sadder than that dude
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe that is his secret power.
― Meanwhile, on some cars... (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
like, everyone around me is a little bit defeated & now I dominate
underwear domination
― "in this super-sexy postracial age" (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
by appearances his superpower was to look like he was melting
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wear those twink ones iirc, ack
Um, was joking about support undergarments but I appreciate the concern
― mh, Monday, 30 April 2012 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
anyway the sexiest underwear for a straight guy can be found via the international male catalog, why not
― zubaz fupa (elmo argonaut), Monday, 30 April 2012 19:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm thinking of getting into the ridic clothing opinion business if its this easy...
"Underwear?! UGH! If you have to wear such things, go with silk and get them fitted!"
― I will transmit this information to (Viceroy), Monday, 30 April 2012 19:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
real men don't have groins to cover with fabric. real men store their genitalia behind the third flap on their retractable proboscis
― Mordy, Monday, 30 April 2012 19:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol I was trying to make an international male joke a while ago and it looks like they got bought by some other company!
oh god, this generally clueless dude who is my friend's brother used to say if he was rich or something he'd dress like a badass in international male stuff. completely clueless to any gay connotation or um, sense.
― mh, Monday, 30 April 2012 19:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I reckon the locker room is just about the only place you should feel free to let your weird swollen old balls hang free while you shoot the shit about NASDAQ
― badg, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 10:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
This lady is telling y'all that the undies dont really matter - but for the love of god make sure theyre new, clean and dont have skidmarks.
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^ reason why white undies are horrible, no stain camoflage
― mh, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 14:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0neh3kAas1qj29d6o1_500.jpg
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
uhhhhh
ew no, ew
― raw feel vegan (silby), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
haaa
― horseshoe, Monday, 14 May 2012 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
big nope to that
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
clumsy virgin kisses, forever
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
a clumsy virgin kissing a human face, forever
― dayo, Monday, 14 May 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
cut her lip on your braces
eternally
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
with lots of jabby tongue movements and while chewing bubblicious?
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Get your entire face swallowed, every time
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
A real man doesn't "feel a girl up." He puts his arm on her shoulders and goes for the stealthy boob reacharound.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
):
― raw feel vegan (silby), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
o_0
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
wtf
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
"rules"
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
strive constantly to be better than her at everything xp
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok holy shit that one
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow if you read those two together
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
society and its puny "laws" can't stop me.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 14 May 2012 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
"laws" are not "rules"
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Make the first move. If she runs, make it a race. Chasing her is more important than any "rules" etc.
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Take every restraining order as a personal challenge to get closer to her."
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
"But officer, I was there to see about a girl"
can someone make one of these that says "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"
― goole, Monday, 14 May 2012 18:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Dating is a safari, be Teddy Roosevelt"
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
The #666 Rule of a Gentleman
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Make the first move, power-boost at the start of every race in Mario Kart, pwn her so hard
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
itt lovelorn tweens teach u how to live
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
shit i mean "tumblr whites" is that what we call them now
"Lock and load, rack em and stack em."
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2012 18:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
i haven't run across thread fodder much lately mostly because i simply haven't been on tumblr?
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Monday, 14 May 2012 19:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is all horrible advice
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 May 2012 19:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
that last one needs a michael myers photo beneath it
― bnw, Monday, 14 May 2012 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
i just made the dumb mistake of visiting the men's rights reddit page and now i want to pluck my eyes out with a crochet hook
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
now I'm gonna have to do the same
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 16:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
...
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
dammit
hey guys try this milk I think it tastes bad
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
i never understood the irresistible appeal of mark ruffalo ... until that gif
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, i'm now a believer
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
itt mark ruffalo teaches you how to be a man.gif
― mh, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23ManRules
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
KATE BUSH FEELINGS @wutheringhugs
I can't believe most males don't follow these two simple #ManRules -- Wow!! --> http://i.imgur.com/cnGBM.jpg <-- RT if you agree!!!!
― goole, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Found via the horrible Men's Health mag tweets:https://twitter.com/#!/MHGirlNextDoor
apparently I need to see who's living next door, and then possibly move
― mh, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also dying at the fact that someone thinks that @MensHealthJimmy is a good nonironic twitter account name that doesn't immediately bring to mind the phrase "jimmy hat"
― mh, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
#ManRules always stand next to someone at the urinal and offer to shake the last little drops of pee out for him
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
man I didn't know mh was a hot girl who lived next door to me
― dayo, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
#manrules always introduce yourself to neighbors
― mh, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
@wutheringhugs is one of my fav twet ppl
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
someone just posted this in my FB feed:
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
which of course leads me down the mancards.com hole and wtf
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
guess you gotta Ask What the Fuck? and whisper *wtf*
CRUDE U D E
― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Does that work?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
close enough
Your point?
in your face.
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
zany? i am more lost then ever
― bnw, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
omg its like a sleepaway camp icebreaker collage
― max, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Real men apparently don't know shit about spelling or graphic design
― joygoat, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
there's a post on mancards called The Top Most Hotties
smokin' hot babes with the power to completely obliterate Language As We Know It
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
be manly in your face
no zany man shit
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
MANLY PIXIE DREAM BRO
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
How there, assholes?
How? There. Assholes.
How there? Assholes?
How? There, assholes.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
gentlemen... i give you... the awl:
When and What Do Guys Think About Pants? An Investigation
My mission, talking to dudes in a mall about pants, was not at all a failure. It was, in fact, instructive. What have we learned? That I was not alone in being someone who is not taking his pants as seriously as maybe he should be. That there are many other dudes out there in the same boat. That dudes are not used to talking to dudes about their concerns about their pants. These seem like things that should change. At least, this is all true outside of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the general vicinity of the Lehigh Valley Mall and its connected lifestyle center. This content was created for our partner Life Khaki from Haggar.
This content was created for our partner Life Khaki from Haggar.
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
meet my life partner, Khaki Haggar
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
dude just talking to some dudes about dude issues
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hope their next article is sponsored by EZvasectomy.com
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sever your ballsack and kill yourself.
This content was created for our partners Sever Your Ballsack and Kill Yourself.
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
you're all fucking beautiful
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am dying of laughter here
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
bahaha
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
"you're beautiful just as you are, you don't need makeup to be beautiful to me"*girl takes off makeup*"wait, what's wrong with your face? you look weird. since when do you have freckles?"
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 17:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
that picture is A+++
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 19:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
also DONT
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
outer space boy can't get a gf tbh
glad the woman from pamplemousse is standing up for herself
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
looool
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 19:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
so annoying
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 20:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
boy's best comeback would have been "I wasn't talking to you"
not taking a personal position on that, just saying
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Doesn't leave much hope for me tbh.
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
amazon just sent me an email with cookbook recommendations:
Eat Like a Man: The Only Cookbook a Man Will Ever Need by Ryan D'Agostino, David Granger, Tom Colicchio
Recipes Every Man Should Know (Pocket Companions) by Susan Russo, Brett Cohen
The Real Man's Cookbook: How, When, What and Why to Cook by William J. Rayment
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking--for Guys by Tod Dimmick
Sam the Cooking Guy: Just a Bunch of Recipes by Sam Zien
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
How To Cook If You're Dumb And Have A Penis I Mean Can You Even Hold A Spatula You Dumb Fucking Troglodyteby Donna Rouge
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbh cookbooks are the accursed grimoires of kitchen witches, if a man beholds a recipe that is not 'for men' then his testicles will wither and drop off like rotten fruit
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
the opening scene of 2001 except it's a bunch of dudes trying to figure out how to turn on a cuisinart
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Real Man's Cookbook: How, When, What and Why to Cook
one question that has perplexed men for ages is "why should one cook?"
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
chapter 2: when to cook
plan to cook at some point prior to when you plan to eat.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 1 June 2012 18:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
the question is not why to cook, it's WHO to cook
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
as A Real Man i was hoping to find a cookbook that would also tell me WHERE i can cook, since i don't know these things being A Real Man and all
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
what: foie graswhen: yesterdaywhere: garagehow: car batterywhy: to attain true enlightenment
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
i totally endorse men being willing and able to cook for themselves (and and others!) and i hope to live to see the day when "bitch make me a sandwich" lols are no longer lol'ed. if it takes a 'man's cookbook' to set a guy in the path to learning those skills then... good? it's just sad & weird to me that 'for men' books apparently have to give permission for guys to learn this stuff and assure them it won't make them any less of a man?
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
which is kind of doubly weird if you think about celebrity chefs and even just regular restaurant kitchens and how they tend to be dominated by real manly macho dudes (read: insufferable assholes), which i mean there's probably an interesting point in there about cuisine and gender and trade/capital but my brain can't figure it out
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just a Bunch of Recipes
― how's life, Friday, 1 June 2012 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Zien, creator and host of the television show Sam the Cooking Guy, is very clear from the onset that he is not a chef; he also believes that certain things, like measuring ingredients (unless baking), are a "waste of time" and that 350 degrees is the "universal temperature" at which to cook everything. A self-proclaimed "regular guy," Zien thinks that people have "been wrecked by cooking shows with their millions of complicated steps and crazy ass ingredients." His recipes are for people who want to cook, but want to spend as little time and effort in the kitchen as possible.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 1 June 2012 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
(Pocket Companions)
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
so people who don't want to cook
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
real men want to cook but do not want to do a good job i guess?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 1 June 2012 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Choose from recipes like Shrimp Tacos,Buffalo Chicken Pizza, and Steak Salad withBlue Cheese Crumbles as well as super-fast favorites such as Chili Corn Chip Bags and Tomato and Potato Chip Sandwiches
His recipes are for people who want to cook, but want to spend as little time and effort in the kitchen as possible.
"men are lazy fucks who don't like to do detailed tasks" is kind of a shitty way to pander to your intended audience
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
How To Cook Like You're A Bennigan's
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sam the Colon Cancer Guy
― atlas arghed (brownie), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
if I ever encounter anyone who claims one of their favorite meals is "Tomato and Potato Chip Sandwiches", I will instantly and bloodily murder that person and everyone they ever knew and/or loved
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
dn makes that post
― atlas arghed (brownie), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Do real men cook? Of course they do. From the great chefs of France to the rough-and-tumble short-order cooks, real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries. With dry wit and wisdom, W. J. Rayment dishes out recipes, reflects on the state of society and solves the world's most pressing problems.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 1 June 2012 18:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
I really love his "Wild Mushroom Risotto with Raisins and Financial Solvency for Greece"
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
hah you and the person who wrote the back cover of the book are in sync:
He points out how chicken in a Gorgonzola sauce can bring us peace in our time. His bean soup recipe is a sure fix for the energy crisis.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 1 June 2012 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Homelessness and Chimichurri Chicken
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sam the Cooking Guy: Just a Bunch of Recipes
― jump them into a gang - into the absurd (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 June 2012 19:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
I get a kick out of the fact that we're being marketed to with these too-stupiod-or-fragile-to-do-basic-tasks books, but istead of being sold hammers with flowers painted on them, we get whisks that look like socket wrenches.
A personal favorite: guy in a commercial is handed a vaccume cleaner and he gets all flabbergasted like he's some sort of idiot child who can't figure out basic, common machines that he's seen used every week of his life.
― Convert simple JEEZ to BDSMcode (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 1 June 2012 19:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hopefully there is a recipe for Ham Cybele in there.
― ogmor, Friday, 1 June 2012 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
just a bunch of testicles
― Convert simple JEEZ to BDSMcode (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 1 June 2012 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
i took a picture of this advice from "guy food" by rachael ray:
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cooking My Scrotum At The Universal Temperature
― ogmor, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
350 degrees is the "universal temperature" at which to cook everything.
uh can we get back to how insane this is
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Now serving "Scrot Au Feu"
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
I do the large majority of cooking for my family and find this shit patently offensive
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Smash the patriarchy w yr frying pans etc
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm really into this universal temperature idea; i think it has a lot to offer
― ogmor, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've grown up around dudes who cook my whole life, it's not even a thing. That it's *even* a thing is like, 'omg I know this woman who votes'.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
otm, i don't think there's even a little gender gap w/ kitchen interest/capability amongst ppl i know <40
― ogmor, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 1, 2012 4:06 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah why would it even be that good of a thing to cook all food at one temperature.
i mean you don't need to know calculus to set the oven.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
and I know as many women who could give a crap about cooking as I do men. it's a non-starter.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
kinda feel like this stuff is being stealth marketed to male college students who haven't yet figured out how to cook and are still eating cafe food and ramen
― Mordy, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's not really for men it's for "MEN"
my parents gave me a book like that when i was first out of college but it was targeted at college students/people just out of college in general, not MEN
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have copies of "Cooking for Dummies" and "Gourmet Cooking for Dummies" which my mom gave me, along with a long "honestly, I don't think you are a dummy, I just like these cookbooks" preamble. She was not reassured when I took the books and said, "It's okay, Mom; I know what you really think of me... *sniff* Can you help me tie my shoes? I always seem to tie them together."
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
what these do-gooders don't understand is that ramen is an essential rite of passage.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Keep the cookbooks, Mom. I need to go poopy."
I cooked ramen from scratch during college more times than I ate instant ramen. And I have a penis!
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
fwiw, i think that college aged women also often need to be taught how to cook, but obv these books aren't being marketed towards them. different products are marketed towards them
― Mordy, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
(jokes, obv)
― Mordy, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
men know how to cook these
― Mordy, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
soy + peanut butter + ramen = satay
WELCOME TO COOKING
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
look, it comes with the dessert! xp
just looking at that thing is making my colon hate me
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
a lot of our cultural relationships to cooking food are really weird tho, gender aside like in Finding Betty Crocker:
“At this time, the company was still refining their approach to marketing. While they sought to promote a quick and easy product that still retained a “fresh, ‘home-made’” quality, ‘the market was slow to mature’ (p. 168). The company called upon the market research of Dr. Burleigh Gardner and Dr. Ernet Dichter, both business psychologists:‘The problem, according to psychologists, was eggs. Dichter, in particular, believed that powdered eggs, often used in cake mixes, should be left out, so women could add a few fresh eggs into the batter, giving them a sense of creative contribution.’As a result, General Mills (who own Betty Crocker) altered their product, abandoning the powdered egg in their mixes. The requirement to add eggs at home was marketed as a benefit, conferring the quality of ‘home-made’ authenticity upon the box cake mix. (Whether using fresh eggs instead of powdered eggs actually enhanced taste was beside the point.)”
ok, maybe gender not totally aside but i always found that really weird. we need to feel assured that we're actually cooking, even if that assurance comes from the arbitrary number/type of ingredients we're adding at home
― Mordy, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I just wish all my food could be made out of engine blocks and breasts. And that I could cook it with my cufflinks.
― Convert simple JEEZ to BDSMcode (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm surprised Axe and Ed Hardy haven't teamed up for a cookbook yet.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
how many meals can you realistically make out of water and vinegar, is the thing
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cooking With Mace
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh christ i used to live with a guy who stocked the freezer COMPLETELY full of those hungry-man dinners
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
whenever i cooked anything he would be like "man, why are you even putting all that effort into FOOD?"
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp to mordy
cf. all the ppl who will apologetically tell you the curry/pasta sauce yr eating 'just came from a jar', both venerating & distancing themselves from some oppressive ideal of Real Cooks
― ogmor, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbf I've made a lot of curries from scratch and they take a long time and are a pain
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
pasta sauce = eh, not difficult but how many tomatoes and how much time have ye got
yeah saw the julia child curry making show and it was an eye opener.
― atlas arghed (brownie), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
give me my jar
― atlas arghed (brownie), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd like to make curry from scratch one day but <3 jar
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
just checking: that is a heart, yes?
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
only made one recipe from this I think when I had it out from the library but great cookbook, "curry" is apparently a concept that contains multitudes
you can probably ignore him on the topic of toasting and grinding your own spices and still do a good job.
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
ick more hueg than expected
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, June 1, 2012 12:59 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's what we have women for, etc
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 2 June 2012 01:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
why should one cook when two can order takeout
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 June 2012 01:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltkzggjSWV1qiqf01o1_500.jpg
there is no end to this brand of smug, dreary bullshit on the internet
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
whoops
can jump if need be?
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
"a gentleman can jump if need be" what on earth does this even xp
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
white men can't jumpergo white men are not gentlemen
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
can you imagine being part of something called the gentlemen's society
i can't
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.gentlemens-society.org/
The Gentlemen's Society is a not-for profit social club compiled of like-minded young gentlemen who strive to promote awareness for health, education, mentorship, and community involvement. The term "Gentleman" is something we believe has become a lost art. Our organization meets over dinner once a month to discuss ways that we believe will develop a more rounded "Gentleman". By doing so, we have the opportunity to discuss proper etiquette, explore various philanthropic endeavors in the community, and enjoy the camaraderie of like-minded Gentlemen."
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ew
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
quiet douchery
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
It helps if you think of "gentleman" as a euphemism for penis
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
I grew up in Palm Harbor, Florida and now reside in South Tampa. I'm the Vice President of a commercial real estate land brokerage company called The Land Sharks. My hobbies include working out, cooking, real estate, beach, golf, bowling, traveling, Lightning games, and FSU football. I enjoy good company, red wine, cigars, wearing suits, BBQ's, Old School and listening to some good beats. My goal in life is to figure out a way to make enough money to spend a majority of my time traveling and enjoying the finer things in life.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
you mean you don't already have inordinate amounts of time for red wine, cigars, wearing suits...
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I enjoy driving my windowless van to the Everglades to dump bodies & go on nature walks"
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Old School= ? the movie
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
thread for guys who think they have figured out how to live but are still so empty inside
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Who let that blonde chick join the Gentlemen's Society?
― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah pretty sure he means the movie, how sad is that
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
he thinks it's a documentary
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
guys, they have NUMBERS
like the fucking stonecutters
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hope "lightning games" means standing on a hill in a thunderstorm holding a large metal umbrella
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
i just to make enough money to enjoy the finer things in life, like FSU football
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
just want to*
I wish only poverty for all of them
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
idk why but #9 made me lose my shit
― goole, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
*reflects*
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.gentlemens-society.org/about
lol @ scare quotes
― goole, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.gentlemens-society.org/member-directory
n n nicknames?
tampa must be just mega weird
― goole, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
"ten * every man should have"
About 1,740,000 results
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
My family has a saying: don't raise your kids in Florida, or they'll end up messed up.
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.reddit.com/r/gentlemanboners
reddit is a fucking cesspool imho
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha, it's a "gentleman boner" rather than a ws if it's someone wearing a dress
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I. Classy is not synonymous to cute, sexy, slutty or even pretty.II. Name of the lady should be in the title or comments.III. Tag NSFW pictures on NSFW links.IV. Post film, photography or soundless animations directly.V. Post only the best quality & highest resolution size version of your muse.VI. All unclassy posts will be removed.VII. Excessively photoshop'd pictures will be removed.VIII. No reprinting of the top 100 posts.IX. Crass comments will be removed and can lead to banning.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
"All unclassy posts will be removed."
Stay classy guys!
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
because nothing says refinement like telling the internet which female celebrities make your trousers tent
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
make a million rules to be "classy"
have the word "boners" in your group's title
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Post only the best quality & highest resolution size version of your muse.
ugh
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't want to see the "art" these muses inspire.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's like a monochromatic Pollack
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
don't go insulting Poland! and also yuck
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
re: the first least elmo posted: vis-a-vis its intended audience, number fourteen is not in the least bit true
and drinks are not meant to be mixed? wtf?
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
first list*
haha i know, i guess being a gentleman requires drinking only straight liquor? or, uh, red wine?
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
basically, a gentleman drinks straight booze neat or on the rocks, probably in the scotch/whiskey/bourbon family of spirits
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
yup
mixing drinks is too similar to cooking, another thing gentlemen don't do, no doubt
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
what a horrible way to live, in constant anxiety that the wrong beverage will emasculate you and degrade your social standing
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
"shaken, not stirred""haha, bond, dude! what sort of girly shit are you drinking?! jesus, jimmy, does that thing come with a little umbrella?"
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
it seems to me that being a 'gentleman' is a lot like being cool in that if you're in a club w/ the word in the name, you're probably not that thing
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
like, shouldn't there be an ease and a subtlety about it? be a gentleman by being a decent person who doesn't talk about how decent you are
you mean my membership to the Club for Cool Boys is...perhaps, tainted?
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm sure your membership is in good standing
― Mordy, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
good, I'm still cool, cooler than those gentelmens
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 15:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
ime most genuinely decent people don't make a thing about how they're decent people
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
obv the 'gentleman' thing is about performing social class as well as gender but idk which aspect is worse
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
gentleman = jumping + opens door for ladies
it's simple, really
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, elmo, I was just thinking about how aspirational it all is.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
srsly what does 17 even mean
― goole, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
"if need be"??
the phrase "gentleman boners" is going to haunt me for a long long time
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
a tiny top hat on the end of an erect penis
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
a tiny monocle lodged in the urethra
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
walking cane in ass
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
nuts spats
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
jumping gentleman boners, batman!
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
for real, how classy is it to objectify women as "muses" while simultaneously posting comments like "she looks way too skinny here, she needs to eat a sandwich"
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Gentlemen . . . Boners!"
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 16:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
(ties should never be a focal point)
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 19:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
pfft, whatever
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 19:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
NEVER
― goole, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 19:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
someone just explain to me wtf is wrong with highballs that makes them so ungentlemanly
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fine liquor is a delicacy to be enjoyed, much like a fine cigar
mixing them is unrefined obviously
also this is a total bizarro douche thing
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's like people who will only drink "single malt scotch" or think they know a lot about certain liquors
and then they order Johnnie Walker because they're morons and don't know what single malt means
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
as a total Talisker fiend, I find those people to be among the worst fucking people in the world
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
jesus, these dudes are such bores, aren't they. just imagine a cocktail reception with the gentlemen's society. i would probably lock myself in the bathroom until it was over.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
the thing is, when you do the snobby alcohol thing right you get super amazing results, but for these idiots "doing it right" is a substitute for "drinking straight from the bottle with a supercilious, knowing expression" which is basically about as wrong as you can possibly do it
like, there are totally tequilas that are best enjoyed neat, but 99% of the people drinking tequila are nowhere near those brands, including you, so stfu
it's like at dinner the other night I saw they had chartreuse on the dessert menu as an apertif and got excited, but when I ordered it they had very obviously just dumped a heavy pour into a goblet and not run cold water over an ice cube into it, so instead of a warming liquorice post-dinner treat I was drinking vaguely sweet fire
these douchebags would be extolling the strength of the chartreuse and would have no fucking clue that there was another preparation that made it into a much more complicated beverage
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
like, there are totally tequilas that are best enjoyed neat
Oh, totally, like Patron, right?
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
(That was my attempt at a Gentlemen's Club post)
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Being classy has everything to do with making everyone else feel at ease, welcomed and valued, while gently discouraging anyone else from being crass, egoistic or snobbish in your vicinity. It has nothing to do with making up a lot of rules everyone else is supposed to follow to meet your social requirements.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
that, good sir, is otm *twirls moustache* hahahahahahahahahahaha
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
jesus, these dudes are such bores
i cannot imagine what these dudes even talk about with each other
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
no, silly, being classy is about rationalizing why your boner is more noble than other boners
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
ah, the ever-noble boner
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
they talk about their cars, golfing, and quote Will Ferrell movies at each other
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:24 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don't know but i bet it's a little funny but mostly just sad and unpleasant to witness
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
if ILX ever buys a racehorse it has to be called Noble Boner
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
"this girl, she was like, smokin' hot. like you wouldn't believe how hot. i was like, woah." xps
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
though seeing other people fetishize being children inspires me to not do that. xp
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
did you notice that they all work in real estate
in florida
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe my wish of poverty upon them will come true
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
SUVIVAL TAMPON
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Do me a favor for the next five minutes. Try to forget everything you know about tampons. I know, it’s hard. But pretend that this is the first time you have ever seen or heard of the item below, and it is a new survival product on the market: the Tactical Adventure Medical Preparedness Outdoors Necessity (T.A.M.P.O.N.).
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
The tampon is actually regulated in the US by the Food & Drug Administration as a Class II Medical Device. The word “tampon” is a derivative of the French word tapon which means “a little plug or stopper.” My research indicates that tampons were used as early as the 19th century as battle dressings to plug bullet holes. There are even accounts of tampons being used as wound plugs in modern warfare. A friend of mine told me that it’s not uncommon for Army Medics to carry tampons in their med kits. They are also the perfect product for a bloody nose. There seem to be mixed accounts of whether the tampon was used as a feminine product before or after its use on the battlefield.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, but IIRC, people use menstrual pads much more often for first-aid purposes.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 15 June 2012 18:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
if you scraped it then you better put a pad on it
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
guys think about all the cool manly stuff you can do with a tampon but DON'T THINK ABOUT WHAT IT IS ACTUALLY DESIGNED FOR, NO DON'T THINK ABOUT THAT, HAHA SO GROSS, RIGHT?
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I had to look twice at blow dart fletching, misread it as felching and was all say what now
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's in the uncut Raiders of the Lost Ark
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
A Gentleman always has a tampon at hand, just in case.
― Øystein, Friday, 15 June 2012 22:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
you can use a tampon to draw the vermouth out of your martini iirc
― nuts spats (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 18 June 2012 14:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
a gentleman could use one to dab the sweat off his brow
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 June 2012 16:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
That post is a pretty kooky but it doesn't fit w/ the rest of the terrible shit that this thread is about. It's interesting and it doesn't seem "Ewwwwww! Lady products & periods, gross!!!" to me.
― Je55e, Monday, 18 June 2012 18:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
reads to me as "I'm so comfortable with my masculinity that I'll use a tampon and carry it around in case of emergencies"
― mh, Monday, 18 June 2012 18:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbf it's a comfort to carry around at least one thing that will eventually go in a vagina
― nuts spats (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 18 June 2012 18:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
need to remember the box of tampons in my cabinet for my next nosebleed
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 18 June 2012 18:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
real men have regular nosebleeds
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Monday, 18 June 2012 18:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
If I went camping or lived a life w/ lots of blood-stanching and water-filtering emergencies, I would probably carry a couple of tampons in my first aid kit.
― Je55e, Monday, 18 June 2012 18:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah jesse, it's not quite in line with everything else itt but it's got the overreaching macguyver-survivor masculinity thing going for it
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 18 June 2012 18:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's true. I have a bit of a weakness for that kind of thing, I suppose. Though really I'd be more interested in a piece about uses for a tampon for home maintenance and crafting.
― Je55e, Monday, 18 June 2012 18:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
elmo is making me feel defensively tampon-core
― nuts spats (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 18 June 2012 18:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
WE AINT GOT TIME TO BLEED
― nuts spats (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 18 June 2012 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh god i have fallen into a twitter sinkhole of 'gentlemen' help
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 18 June 2012 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
https://twitter.com/#!/Gentlemenhood
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 18 June 2012 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
https://twitter.com/#!/ThatsAManLaw
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 18 June 2012 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Man Law@ThatsAManLawThe Man Laws are sacred. The Man Card an ancient honor bestowed onto those who are worthy. We will teach you the ways. #ManLawManville, USA · http://bitchmakemeasandwich.com/
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 18 June 2012 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
charming
Perfect Gentleman @Gentlemenhood
Life is fueled by love. No love no life
i would have gone with 'water, protein, salt and sugars' but ok
― goole, Monday, 18 June 2012 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://theredpillroom.blogspot.com/
not even gonna touch this one
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
About MeIan IronwoodI'm a professional sex nerd. No, really. I study sex in all of its manifestations and presentations as a window to the human soul. In other words . . . I'm a Sex Nerd.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
no the real sex nerds are the poly kinky people on fetlife I'm pretty sure
― "Holy crap," I mutter, as he gently taps my area (silby), Monday, 18 June 2012 20:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
The secret to being a successful gentleman
― Bnad, Monday, 18 June 2012 21:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
not a better person
a better man
(there's a difference)
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
does dos equis' ad campaign fit in this thread?
― radical ferry (donna rouge), Thursday, 28 June 2012 17:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
maybe that's more the "marketing of masculinity" thread, i guess
― Je55e, Monday, 18 June 2012 19:22 (1 week ago) Bookmark
― Number None, Saturday, 30 June 2012 22:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
i pledge to be a better man by wearing a tie and carrying a tampon with me.
― Merdeyeux, Saturday, 30 June 2012 22:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
"the lost art of dressing" yuck yuck yuck yuck ewhttp://gothamist.com/2012/07/11/5_tips_for_new_york_men_from_the_gn.php
hints of good advice ("read") made completely unpalatable ("The answers to most questions lie within the written word").
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 12 July 2012 12:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
hoo boy
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
READ: The answers to most questions lie within the written word; but be sure to read both sides of the story. Don’t only pick up and read the books that will impress people when they look at your bookshelf, but be sure to read about contrary opinions to truly find answers. Although it may take you out of your comfort zone, the only risks are either strengthening your current opinions or gaining a new perspective.
or: read because you like to read books? because reading is enriching and entertaining? and because you have interests other than your own manliness and having opinions about stuff?
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
whatever, man, you haven't read BOTH sides of the story. come back to me when when you're ready to TRULY find answers.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
or because you want to learn about 50 shades
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
A gentleman needs to own a well-made umbrella.
he does fucking NOT and you can't convince me he does.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
Pfft, how are you supposed to thrash ingrates in the street without a decent umbrella? Are you going to ruin a perfectly good walking stick?
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:25 (11 months ago) Permalink
"a gentlemen needs to own a flask, and a pipe, and a pocketwatch, and one of those cool sherlock holmes hats."
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
i think this site is probably just trying to sell expensive umbrellas to non-real men
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
READ: blah blah blah
BE PREPARED: blah blah blah. The less moving parts, especially metals, the less likely it will be to stand up to the elements. (Howard Yount carries a fine selection of styles.)
that's fewer moving parts, dickhead.
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah i was going to say that the writing (and grammar) is terrible but by now we know that's just a given for sites like that
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
why is so much of the world culturally imploding right now
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
Whether it’s walking the streets of the city or to and from your car
I would think if you're able to afford a very fine umbrella, you would be able to afford a car service or valet parking.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
haha first response hall of fame on that btw
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
the less / fewer thing is nothing compared to how they said the exact opposite they were trying to convey
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
gentlemen math tells me that his drinks are costly
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
lol gentlemen math
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
"buy an umbrella with a solid wood shaft. it has fewer moving parts, so it will work like shit."
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
I thought that at first too, but then when reading the entire thing I do think they meant to say "buy an over-designed umbrella with as many moving parts as possible, because it won't ever break due to a strong gust of wind"
which, as someone who has been gifted expensive umbrellas in the past and has seen their spectacular implosions in Boston updrafts, is fucking stupid and wrong
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
"We believe that reviving the lost art of dressing, behaving and thinking like a gentleman benefits ourselves and the world around us."
"We watched Mad Men and found some old issues of Esquire and want to fetishize shaving products and treating women like fancy objects like every other gentlemen's blog"
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
gntlmn.com's front page is trying to sell me a $225 "tote bag"
hmmmm
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
can we start one of these
we can do listicles that start out with one seemingly rational piece of advice like "a true gentleman understands the importance of listening" and then accelerate into still-true-but-batshit advice like "a true gentleman does not insert the entire fist without warning or permission"
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://blog.gntlmn.com/post/26812519401/a-gntlmns-way-of-presenting-cheese-earlier
"A #GNTLMN’s way of presenting cheese."
unreadable scrawl. tags: "behaving"
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
please don't buy tote bags, guys
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
i mean, if you really want to, for a good cause, for food shopping, go ahead
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
here was the "teaser image" for the tote bag:http://blog.gntlmn.com/post/26721167648/photo-by-brian-vernor-and-a-tease-at-what
I suddenly have a case of the giggles.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
hahahaaaaa
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
"we're terribly excited"
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
on this cliffwith our magnificent tote bag
this has to be a joke
a noble tote, staring seaward, full of possibility
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
The French Lieutenant's Tote Bag
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
dudes need to advise me what sort of stylish spelunking-style head lamp I need to wear when I am as far up my own ass as they are
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
this reminded me, I meant to start a thread on ILS a few weeks ago:
recommend a new man bag for me
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
tbf that guy's bags are pretty nice but a tote bag is not really an urban man bag
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
mh, if he needs to see up there, a real man can start a fire in his own ass with flint and dry grasses
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
this is why I need a consultant on being a man, obviously
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:01 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haaaa
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
oh man, did i draw some attention from the office laughing at that.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
whoops forgot to check back on this thread! definitely read the umbrella thing as advertising how a great solid single-piece-of-wood umbrella has the great feature of not standing up to the elements.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
yes
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
hey just to interrupt our regularly schedules hate-a-thon for a second, my neighbor (& potential friend? we were recently introduced and he is cool afaict) is writing a series of columns titled "self made man" about masculinity re: transitioning to living as a man, they are lovely and thoughtful and you should read some of them:
http://therumpus.net/author/thomas-mcbee/
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
elmo, my god, these are wonderful.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
:D
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 18:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
Gonna bookmark those to read at work tomorrow, they look excellent.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 12 July 2012 18:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
all the more personal stuff is beautifully written, but the more general curiosity about masculinity is really interesting and contrasts so strongly w/ the sort of stuff in this thread.
― ogmor, Thursday, 12 July 2012 18:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
I have so many mixed feelings from some of the posts! The idea that you need to know how to throw a punch, or fight, makes me want to yell that there is nothing to the masculine experience that demands that, but when you juxtapose it with the mugging and the fact the mugger shot men... I don't know, it's difficult. I like to think that we decide the person we are going to be regardless of gender but there are some things you're going to fight against or pick up regardless of intentions.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 18:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
w/ the preliminary caveat that i'm v unsure about all this, i think, mb, someone transitioning is much more invested in some sort of notion of masculinity than a lot of cis guys... idk, i feel totally unable to express myself on this, but it is v v interesting to me.
― ogmor, Thursday, 12 July 2012 19:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://gawker.com/5924960/when-gay-men-think-baseball-caps-make-them-masculine
teaches you how to be a stereotypical masculine man who is into men?
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 20:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
did u read the article? friend of mine posted it on Facebook and I think it's a little more nuanced than that
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 12 July 2012 20:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
oh, I was being way reductive, yes. not criticizing this article as all, just interesting to me as an actually-good look at what masculinity means to people who aren't waspy dickbags trying to justify their sartorial and misogynistic sides.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 20:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
i think about this a lot! when rich calls the term 'straight acting' as corrosive, i gather that he means it qualifies machismo & links certain modes of masculinity to being exclusively heterosexual, which I find really constraining. But there's also the idea that some gays who act "straight" are interested in 'passing' as straight, and the idea of someone performing the role and accruing the cultural privileges of being straight almost feels like a betrayal, or at least a shameful cop-out. But on the other hand, many closeted gay men perform these roles out of fear & perceived necessity, so I'm not without empathy for that struggle, having lived it myself. it's complicated.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 20:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
I am not very "straight-acting" btw. Well, not consciously. I have no idea.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 20:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
personally, i find that backwards ball caps tend to make guys look, well, really juvenile, and according to my own bonerometer, that is neither particularly masculine nor very attractive
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
bonerometer SAYS!
*descending slide whistle*
― radical ferry (donna rouge), Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
That self-made man blog is very powerful, and emotional, but also bringing up memories and emotions that I have kept stuffed in a box for 20+ years. Narratives around masculinity are so strange and twisted. And a reminder that no matter how badly I have always failed at Being A Girl, I could perform masculinity no better than I could perform femininity. Painful to be reminded.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
everything according to one's own bonerometer scale imo
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:49 (11 months ago) Permalink
tee hee
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Thursday, 12 July 2012 21:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
SPECIAL NEW YORK TIMES EDITION
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/07/12/are-modern-men-manly-enough/men-need-to-rediscover-the-don-draper-within
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 July 2012 22:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
shit like this makes me want to sharpen my castrating knife & go a-hunting i mean what can you say to this except FUUUUCK YOOOUUUU
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 July 2012 22:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
I got messed up by my feminist mom in the 1970s, who taught me that gender was a social construct. I can’t believe that social experiment went on as long as it did, since it’s clear by month six of having a child that William does not want a doll. Ladies do go first. We are not free to be you and me. We are born different.
Kill yourself & fuck the body.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 July 2012 22:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
murder joel stein's balls
― radical ferry (donna rouge), Friday, 13 July 2012 22:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
maybe it's dumb of me to be so reactive to such an obvious idiot's brainless bullshit but god help me this attitude is a fucking cancer
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 13 July 2012 22:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
well i'm with you there, just ughhh why does anyone pay this goober to write
― radical ferry (donna rouge), Friday, 13 July 2012 22:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
Rich's piece: I've been considering adopting an affirmative-action policy toward femme guys. I tell myself, "Get into it," like the drag queens/all of us say. I just want to say that I adopted such a policy and I was shocked to find that I was able to consciously change my preferences! 15 years ago I found femme guys distasteful, and when in the early 2000s I became more tolerant, I still thought it would be impossible to find effeminate men sexually interesting b/c I figured you're into what you're into and you can't force the matter. But over time I started seeing femme guys as fully male and fully sexual as masculine guys and that change reminded me of a book about Jewish gender roles and ideas of masculinity that I read for a religious studies class about gender. One point in the book was (I'm going to really badly sum it up!) about how in Jewish (religious scholarly) culture, masculinity in men has been frowned upon, and how "sissy-ness" (the book uses the word sissy) did not undermine a Jewish man's maleness or sexuality. There was a sentence that I can't quote or find that for the first time ever made me realize that a sissy could be fully a man and fully sexualized - he could function sexually and romantically as more than just some level of sub (and bottom) to a more masculine man.
Uh, originally I quoted the sentences above to ask: What does "get into it" mean?? I've never heard it used. Does it mean exactly what it says or is it a figure of speech?
― Je55e, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
Also, I can't recall the title of the book I referred to. It's not really super important except that that one sentence I read in 2002 or 2003 planted the seed in my mind that being a sissy wasn't a naturally a bad thing, and it could even been appealing.
― Je55e, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
idk if this is what you read, but Daniel Boyarin discusses something like this in Unheroic Conduct, i find an excerpt here: http://neareastern.berkeley.edu/Web_Boyarin/BoyarinArticles/144%20Unheroic%20Conduct%20(2009).pdf
― Mordy, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
found*
here's the book which is excellent btw and made a huge impact on me in terms of envisioning alternative idealizations of masculinity:http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520210509
Unheroic Conduct!! Yes, thank you! Let's see if I remembered anything correctly.
I'll definitely check out that other book. Thanks.
― Je55e, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
fwiw idk anything about that other book, just that it has an excerpt from unheroic conduct in it
― Mordy, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh, I thought the second link you posted was to a different book that you were recommended.
― Je55e, Monday, 16 July 2012 21:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
Or to the book that contained the excerpt you linked to. Something. IDK.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
um
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
btw her favorite song is "you look like a jew" by pussy galore
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
...i'm really sorry about that joke, that was pretty tasteless esp. given the last bit of discussion here
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
hahaha i actually have that album (well whatever compilation that song is on, i don't have it on vinyl or anything), everything on it is tasteless! but at the time i bought it, i would have told all these gentleman blog guys that my v ladylike favorite song was 'boilermaker' by jesus lizard so
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
To be fair to that piece of crap advice, it is probably true for me. Still crap for other, less socially dysfunctional people, though.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
it is an incredibly naive piece of advice to begin with, i mean it assumes that the way a MAN interpret a woman's feelings based on songs is objective? and beyond that presumes women are incapable of expressing themselves even if they want to, god they don't even know what THEY FEEL, magical irrational creatures that they are, and encourages dudes to judge women on the music they like? yup
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
yes but what does einsturzende neubauten say about my feelings
― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 02:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
it says OOOOWOOWOWOOWOWOOOOOOOooooooOOOOwoooOOOOO
― This clam, stranded on someone’s floor, is trying to dig itself (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 03:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
It's all really cute tbh, like these guys know that they're missing something called "empathy", but they're not entirely sure what that is, so fill it in by trying to judge how someone feels by their Most Recently Played list on their iPod.
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 12:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
that is so not my definition of cute
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 12:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
it's a stretched definition, granted
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
Ahh, no. Lack of empathy is cute if you're a sociopath, maybe. Everyone else needs to get some.
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
These guys are certainly trying to get some, but they're not going to be passing any voigt-kampff tests
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
https://twitter.com/iBoyFriendTips
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
And here I thought those would be tips about being a boyfriend. No. No, they are tips from a fictional boyfriend, to tell girls how to be less ugly, skanky, and stupid.
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
hey guys, the art of manliness blog posted a how-to for a ridiculously specific niche skill while proclaiming its essential manliness, really super impressed with how in-touch they are with the challenges and needs of modern man, wow
http://artofmanliness.com/2012/07/17/how-to-restore-an-heirloom-axe/
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
I encourage you to try to find an heirloom axe to restore. With the success of Gransfors Bruks, boutique axes have mushroomed in popularity over the last decade or so. If you are lucky enough to compare a Gransfors, a Wetterlings, a Council Tool, or any of the other available high quality axes to the generic trunk-slapper available at your nearby hardware store, you will be amazed at the cutting ability of even a small camping axe.
GUESS WHAT SUNSHINE THIS IS NOT MANLY
― goole, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
going through their "100 books every man should read" list and i'm just gonna go ahead and guess that there is one female author on the entire list and that it's you-know-who
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
Real men rip trees from the ground with their bare hands
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
rhymes with shmamille shmaglia? xp
― goole, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://artofmanliness.com/category/manly-skills/
holy shit this is hilarious and pathetic
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
wtf is with these people and axes
give me a goddamn machete any day of the week
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
"jesus christ, you're such a wimp! why don't you ever do manly things like making rope ladders or stabbing things with a broken cell phone spear?"
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
ok, there's four - frankenstein, the book of deeds of arms and of chivalry (it was written by a woman so it's all totes legit!!!), to kill a mockingbird and atlas shrugged
what a dull list
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
Christopher Battles July 17, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Thank you Josh for this detailed article. I am putting it on my Pinterest for when the time comes.
K, bye
DO YOU EVEN HEAR YOURSELVES
― goole, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
lol at ayn rand's vision of manliness being an aspiration
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
goole, I refuse to believe that is anything other than a clever trolling post
lol goole
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
thanking u
― shmamille shmaglia (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
You can't find fault with a list that includes 4 biographies of Teddy Roosevelt though.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
he's like ron swanson for old ppl
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
the author of those self made man columns i posted upthread has a new piece on salon:
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/07/trans_but_not_like_you_think/
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 14:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
i didn't understand the salon piece. i mean, i think i got the basic idea, but i don't understand the 'not like you think' part. maybe it's just me but it seemed a little incoherent
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 15:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
I don’t think I was born in the wrong body. I am not “finally myself.” I’ve never spent a day being anyone else.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 16:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
idk. the author had pretty serious surgery done and took hormones - i can see how the term "born in the wrong body" might not feel like a perfect description to the author but surely it is true even here? like, the narrative read (to me at least) fairly traditionally.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 16:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
I dunno why but I find the term "memoir-in-progress" sort of irritating
― Harvey Cartel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 16:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
mordy, i'm really not interested in engaging you on this subject. i posted that link here for people who previously read & enjoyed the author's other work, which i posted upthread. the author happens to be a neighbor & friend so i'd appreciate your understanding in not second-guessing his intent. if you'd like to take the subject to a different thread, by all means do so.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
how about first guessing?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
how about stfu
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
i liked that article, thx
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 03:28 (10 months ago) Permalink
here's a fun one:
http://artofmanliness.com/2012/07/29/bosom-buddies-a-photo-history-of-male-affection/
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 01:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
As this new conception of homosexuality as a stigmatized and onerous identifier took root in American culture, men began to be much more careful to not send messages to other men, and to women, that they were gay. And this is the reason why, it is theorized, men have become less comfortable with showing affection towards each other over the last century. At the same time, it also may explain why in countries with a more conservative, religious culture, such as in Africa or the Middle East, where men do engage in homosexual acts, but still consider homosexuality the “crime that cannot be spoken,” it remains common for men to be affectionate with one another and comfortable with things like holding hands as they walk.
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 01:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
i'd recommend not reading the comments on that, fwiw
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 14:15 (10 months ago) Permalink
I thought they were mostly shocking reasonable, if frequently lacking any non-mainstream perspective? Pretty stodgy and some obvly prejudiced but not the overall virulence & ignorance I expect from internet comments.
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 14:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
The pictures are wonderful btw.
There are a couple comments that really betray a weird mindset about affection and sexuality that leads me back to the "closeted people are the worst homophobes" idea
― your native bacon (mh), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 14:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
more than a few comments lament the decline of the intimacy in male friendship and then seem to blame it on the increased visibility for gay men... riiiight.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
there's such a strong disavowal of any erotic context in the article & in the comments that i don't quite believe. i may be splitting hairs but i feel there is are subtle distinctions between what is explicitly sexual and what is vaguely erotic, in the sense of men's bodies seeking each other out. putting aside the male-on-male etymology of the word, i am of the opinion that a lot of visible masculine camaraderie & fellowship has an erotic component, a mutual recognition of bodies, not in the "i want to fuck you, bro" way, but "good job, i'm gonna smack your butt" sort of way.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
the commenter who claims that he feels like gagging when he sees men of other ethnic backgrounds holding hands until someone tells him they're straight and then it's cool with him and he's comfortable? how does that not absolutely reek of his own denied sexuality?
― your native bacon (mh), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, even the best of the comments were definitely no models of tolerance. Although iirc ONE person did note that if we stopped stigmatizing gayness then men showing affection wouldn't have any neg associations.
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 15:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
I just overheard in the hallway at work:"So, do you think this is a masculine-looking lunchbox?"
these blogs are making people think, man
― your native bacon (mh), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
i got v angry at a menswear blogger today, lol
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
dude's blog is pretty much the summation of so much that i find terrible and disgusting about men style blogs as distilled into one hacky joke tumblr, like basically all he does is reblog other dude's pictures and insults them with pop culture references and memes? and people EAT IT UP
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
anyway he basically made a rape joke, like pretty much a "this dude's pocket square is not positioned properly, imagine if he was forced to suck cock in prison" sort of joke
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
so that sucks and i really hate how angry it made me and i hate how popular this dude is for being so hateful. sorry for ranting, errbody
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
^^^ total idiot for taking him seriously
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
just a little rape humor, nbd
:(
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 02:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
always so fucking idiotic to me when ppl think "is offended by" = "takes seriously"
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 02:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
lighten up it's only a joke, I wasn't serious, there are no boundaries, nothing is off-limits or in poor taste and if it is that means you actually thought I was being literal
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 02:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
yea if you don't think it's funny then you obviously can't take a joke, totally unchill behavior bro
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 02:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
Link?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 03:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://nicetrybro.com/post/30314050673/urbanemenswear-viktori-19-all-my-clothes-are
― the mandy moorhols (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 04:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
someone has a crush on the warden
― ayonanas (Matt P), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 04:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
this blog is horrible, and the combination of "bro" with people who are trying to be fashion-forward is still a really, really weird look
are any of the people who write these things people who look anything like the ones they're mocking?
― your native bacon (mh), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 13:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
LATEST TWEETS@eightinhand It's not edgy nor is it "rape humor." It's a ref to 2 movies. U mad at whites for sayin the N word when reciting a rap song?
― thomp, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 13:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
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i don't get what happened here, were you replying to yourself?
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 13:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
no u r quoting 2 posters
― thomp, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 13:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
stevie was speaking in the voice of blogger dude in that last post
― your native bacon (mh), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 13:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
"total idiot for taking him seriously" is refering to tweets between dude & i fwiw.
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 13:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
"U mad at whites for sayin the N word when reciting a rap song?"
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
i can't even with this dude
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
Hahaha. ILX is way ahead of him.
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
this one's a treat
http://nicetrybro.com/post/29429541108/thefashio-mens-fashion-flash-swizz-beatz
― goole, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 14:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
haha does ilx ha