itt blogs instruct you how to be a man

Wondering how many of the guy ones were actually written by a woman and vice-versa.

"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.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/44ffd00c-425a-4b0b-ba4e-bbb6c5fad173.jpg

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llht3w8xz21qj29d6o1_500.jpg

This sounds like the advice of Matt Foley, motivational speaker.

boobs or butts doesn't matter

it's a puzzle

bums don't matter

hips don't lie

that's definitely the most mysterious imo

194 - I feel like there's some positive in that one though.

boobs or butts; doesn't matter

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.

need a gif generator stat

boobs or butts don't matter
anyone can see
boobs or butts don't matter...
to meee....

yeah with the semi-colon i guess it could be read as advising men to be equal-opportunity oglers.

advice that was sorely needed

These need t-shirts!

http://th779.photobucket.com/albums/yy75/pashby_2009/th_Video-Stills-Black-or-White-michael-jackson-11510203-720-480.jpg

I said if you're thinkin' of being my baby
It doesn't matter if you're boobs or butt
oww!

ha

poll:

boobs
butts
doesn't mattter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyLQ1muosqQ

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

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?

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.

"how hail a cab without looking like a dumb tourist asshole"

It was about 3 miles from my hotel, so I decided to take a cab.

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.

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

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?

"Where are you going?"
"Jim's apartment."

haha

I want to submit "how to put on pants like a man"

Shit like this is why I let my subscription to Esquire expire.

Dan, when you put on pants, be amazing.
She'll notice.

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.

the fuck

7.5. Fart authoritatively.

h8 this shitt so bad

omitting Step 7 can have tragic consequences:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z14eZN7ZjA

2.5 Get dressed.

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.

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

10. Do not get a visible tattoo larger than your penis.

Don't know if that includes area or shape.

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.

I do rule 74 a lot

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

I am dying at "how to leave a room like a man"

(and i suppose in this way men's mags have finally caught up to women's mags)

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