marketing of masculinity

It's a hamburger, you princesses.

How to Order a Burger

At least in the case of spare tires, the instructions are included. And changing any other tire is no different. If you can't figure out not to put the jack under a piece of molded plastic that will break, I have no pity for you.

my 8yo loves the dangerous book for boys

it taught him how to play poker + chess

it also has a section on how to talk to girls which is probably the most guidance he's going to get tbh

there's also a daring book for girls

this thread btw is like the inverse of itt a strange man asks etc

MEN WERE STRIPPED OF THEIR KHAKIS

^^doing the world a huge favor, btw

― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Wednesday, December 9, 2009 9:52 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

see laurel is sexually harassing us right here

I'm pretty sure she was thinking that the khakis would be replaced by other pants. A world of indiscriminately bare man legs is not a world any of us would want to live in.

ed i don't think i find objection to learning poker or chess from the dangerous book, but the fact that it's "for boys" is a bit odd to me. i'd be v surprised if the daring book for girls had a poker or chess tutorial tbh.

prescriptive gender roles therein are probably totally obvious but just sayin

I've only skimmed those books and yeah, lol gender prescriptivism. But aren't both of them kind of Boy Scout/Girl Guide-oriented? I don't think the girls' book is all "How to Change A Diaper" or anything.

Really the boys' book should include "How to Wash Your Own Sheets (Believe me, you'll thank us)".

I think the girls book is more like "here are some basic ciphers so you can trade secret gossipy messages with your girlfriends"?

karate moves, cartwheels, building a campfire, and yes--how to change a tire are all in the girls one

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061472573/ref=s9_simp_gw_s0_p14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1VVYMQVTA98H5828CRZ1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846#reader_0061472573

I think both of these books sound awesome by the way--if I was a kid, I would be all over them

My dog found this one to be a pandering disappointment:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E2FYZhbOL._SS500_.jpg

xxxp Well, "huh" to gossip subtext but codes themselves are pretty cool. Oh look, Que confirms it. I sort of liked the books -- obv purposefully "of another time"-looking but that is kind of cool stuff even if it IS fake nostalgia about a post-war, road-tripping, outdoors-exploring, birthing-new-Americans generation.

Really the boys' book should include "How to Wash Your Own Sheets (Believe me, you'll thank us)".

LOL

learning how to build a scooter is timeless, imho

I know, my dad built one out of a bicycle frame and some small engine when he was like 15? And then went on to have Vespas and later, cars that he rebuilt. I mean, why was I not that awesome at 15? I had a dune buggy, I guess, but I didn't built it myself.

ok u had a dune buggy???

?????

i will remember this next time u r complaining abt something on this bord

Yeah, as my first car. Orange frame, no body panels, street legal, 4 seats. Engine & transmission out of a VW bus. I drove it spring & summer for a couple of years. And the family took it dune-running in an approved "park" nearby. Learned to drive a stick in that thing, which was awesome b/c it was geared for a whole VAN and the buggy weighed nothing, so actually it was very forgiving.

Hey, sometimes Christians have fun too.

Just not too often, or they might get used to it.

gdamn i dreamed of dune buggies

just enough to let them know what heaven might be like

wife tells me her dad did similar, just sub vw bug for the bus

But even w a windshield, the wind speed was BRUTAL over about 35 or 40 mph, so it was just for tooling around locally. Funny, I never tried wearing a helmet....

M, is your wife Midwestern/conservative in her origins, too?

texas, but her dad is pretty conservative

http://mjmbooks.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Speed-Buggy.jpg

so jealous that Laurel's first car could talk and solve mysteries

xpost her dad is just a total gearhead. both her parents are bikers, and he's a wrecker driver by trade.

holy shit i forgot about fucking speed buggy until just now

that seems like an experience one would remember forever

LOL. adjective/modifier, not verb

I'm going to write a book about spending a year trying to learn to do all of the things in all of those 100 things a man should know how to do books.

1. How to fuck a talking dune buggy

but would any man just happen to know how to do all those things if those lists did not exist? "you have been judged and found wanting, sissypants" is the subtext i get there

Kind of? Then again, remember the pic you posted of you having to tie a friend's tie? See, he should know how to do that.

i feel dumb when i don't know how to do something

And not to get way Fight Club or anything, but there are a lot of fatherless men out there who didn't exactly take up the mantle of "man of the house.'

Myself very much among them.

it's more like "you've been judged and found wanting, human being"

can change a tire, can't tie a tie

and I'm fully ok w/ that b/c ties are constricting in the neckal area

can barely do either one, myself. didn't know how to tie a tie until i was like 28? 29?

the idea that i should know how to split logs for firewood or hang drywall just because i have a dick AND that my masculinity should be called into question for wanting that knowledge is just weird -- i can learn how if and when the need arises!

learn how to tie a tie ffs

its like really easy