What makes a man a Man?

[Johnnyallstar]

 

[Cowabungaa]

Awesome Yeah I know it can be construed as sexist but, I see the man as the guardian.

I wouldn't call it sexist myself, it's just our original role, so to speak. In modern day society however, things are very different, and it's perfectly fine to switch roles or something.

It'd be more manly to go out and give your wife the easier job(yes, easier job, is it really hard to cook, pickup after yourself and others, and things of that nature?) rather than making your wife work her ass off to support the family with the financial needs? Not saying that women can't do that, but traditionally, the men have been the ones to go out, work hard, get food, and let the wife have the easier job of cleaning and cooking. It's called being chivalrous.

Saywhatnow? Managing the household being the easier job? What makes you think that?

 

[Aisaka]

The ability to send a woman to the kitchen to make you a sandwich.

 

[Cowabungaa]

The ability to send a woman to the kitchen to make you a sandwich.

Funnier than that is the people who take it seriously. If any group is fun to piss off, it's hard-line feminists.
I mean what's up with them? They're so...vengeful.

 

[Jonathan Wingo]

Awesome Yeah I know it can be construed as sexist but, I see the man as the guardian.

I wouldn't call it sexist myself, it's just our original role, so to speak. In modern day society however, things are very different, and it's perfectly fine to switch roles or something.

It'd be more manly to go out and give your wife the easier job(yes, easier job, is it really hard to cook, pickup after yourself and others, and things of that nature?) rather than making your wife work her ass off to support the family with the financial needs? Not saying that women can't do that, but traditionally, the men have been the ones to go out, work hard, get food, and let the wife have the easier job of cleaning and cooking. It's called being chivalrous.

Saywhatnow? Managing the household being the easier job? What makes you think that?

I know better than you think. How about watch facebook sometime, and see how much time the housewives seem to have when they are doing all this hard work around the house, that seems to be so hard, they have hours and hours and hours to spend on farmville and crap like that. I'm serious. If it's so fucking hard, how do they have so much time to spend on crap like that? It's sad if you really think it's so hard to take care of a house. Cut a few hours out of surfing the web and you'll have the house taken care of in no time.

(Do me a favor, don't quote me again. I'm tired of getting sucked back into this thread.)

 

[Cowabungaa]

I know better than you think. How about watch facebook sometime, and see how much time the housewives seem to have when they are doing all this hard work around the house, that seems to be so hard, they have hours and hours and hours to spend on farmville and crap like that. I'm serious. If it's so fucking hard, how do they have so much time to spend on crap like that? It's sad if you really think it's so hard to take care of a house. Cut a few hours out of surfing the web and you'll have the house taken care of in no time.

That's not knowing, that's making assumptions out of very weak data.

How do you know that the housewives you see on Facebook are representative for all housewives everywhere? Your assuming that all housewives are good housewives, I mean who says that those Facebook-hogging women are actually keeping their households running well?

As for it being 'sad' to think that it's so hard, lets just look at my own mum; she has the entire house to clean up (vacuum, beds, etc etc), groceries to do, dinner to cook, several laundries to wash, iron and clean up, 3 kids to manage ánd a part-time job as a teacher assistant. You won't hear me saying that managing a small, 4-room apartment without any kids is tough, but saying it's just easy in general is silly.

But that's not the point, actually. Even if it would be easy, it would be equally easy for men as for women. What it's about is you saying that giving a woman the easy job is chivalrous; I beg to differ. It's chauvinistic, not chivalrous. Chivalry is supporting your wife with everything she does, helping her if she needs help. Chivalry is nót just giving her the easiest task because she's a woman.

As for quoting you; you reply, I reply, easy as pie. Heej that rhymes.

 

[belderiver]

It's a bit of a pointless question. If you wanted a technical and sociological answer then only one that applies across cultures is that what makes a man a man is his lack of being a woman (and vice versa)... So from my perspective I'd say that a "real" man (and a "real" woman) is a person with integrity, personal strength, and respect for those around him.

 

[AngloDoom]

You must be swift as a cour-sing ri-ver!
With all the force of a great ty-phoon!
With all the strength of a rag-ing fi-re!
Mysterious as
the dark side of
the moo-oon!

that song is from the disney film mulan correct

Damn right. For recognising it you get a +1 in Perception, +5 in Nostalgia, but at a possible penalty on the Manliness stat in dependence of your view on life.

 

[Squaseghost]

"A man is just a boy who's old enough to ask that question".

Cookie for the reference.

EDIT: *Has been awarded the /thread*

Spoken by Inara on the Firefly episode "JaynesTown"

JUST watched that episode of Firefly again, and remembered this thread. If I'm not mistaken' I believe there's a cookie still waiting for me.

 

[Xeros]

"A man is just a boy who's old enough to ask that question".

Cookie for the reference.

EDIT: *Has been awarded the /thread*

Spoken by Inara on the Firefly episode "JaynesTown"

JUST watched that episode of Firefly again, and remembered this thread. If I'm not mistaken' I believe there's a cookie still waiting for me.

Spoiler: Your overdue cookie good sir.