Today is National Man Day 2009! The need to have such a day is apparently a backlash to men feeling emasculated by the feminist movement of the last couple of decades. Read about it below and see some photos and a video.
National Man Day 2009
Why do men need a National Man Day? I mean, what’s not to like about men? They might not be the most sensitive creatures on earth, but do we really want them to be? No, I don’t think so. Some women THINK they do. They think they want men to feel their pain and act like women. We learned that from the women’s movement of the 1970s and on. The problem is, once we get the men all mushy and girlie inside, we don’t like them any more. That’s why movie characters like Gerald Butler in 300 or Russell Crowe in Gladiator are so popular. They epitomize what we love about men. We like characters like Jack Bauer in 24 and just love the imaginary perfect American Soldier in uniform (or out of it).
I’ve written a bit in the past about how the feminist movement has affected the lives of everyday women, like myself and the men in our lives. It has seemed to me, over the years, that it has devalued femininity and masculinity at the same time. The lines between the two have been so blurred that neither is allowed to appreciate what each has to offer in relationships, the workplace and the world in general.
I’ve also written about what I perceive to be real masculinity. That would be men who value and possess strength, honor, integrity, compassion, duty and courage. Incidentally, those characteristics exhibited by the characters in television shows and movies that we love to watch. Oh, and they can kick your ass if you mess with their loved ones.
So the Longanecker brothers of Indiana started a movement on Facebook naming June 15 as National Man Day. They say its a day for doing manly things. Their list goes like this:
- being left alone by your woman (no chores, no telling you to be home by dinner time, no helping with the kids, and no “honey do” lists!)
- sitting in your favorite chair and scratching yourself
- shooting stuff or blowing something up
- shooting animals
- eat a steak
- watch Rocky movies all day
- punching someone in the face
Of course, people who have bought into the feminist movement single out that part of the list and call them childish and disgusting.
More of the list includes things like:
- Be a good father
- Be responsible for your actions
- Eat an 18 oz. steak
- Get your wife some flowers
How can you argue with that?
Women’s groups seem to view this whole thing as misogynistic. I’m not sure what eating steak has to do with being misogynistic, but hey, think what you will. Okay, some things on the list are a little childish, but that’s not the point.
The point is that you don’t have to devalue men in order to be valued as a woman. That’s a point that the feminist seem to miss altogether.
Here is their Facebook event page.
Happy Man Day 2009 to all the wonderful manly men in our lives!
National Man Day 2009 – Photos
National Man Day 2009 – Video
National Man Day 2009 – Video
June 15th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I have felt a great many things in my life but emasculation is not one of them. Who comes up with this stuff? With a mere 365 days in one Earth year it would seem they should all be filled with this nonsense already. Oh, so maybe this is for Martian men.
Separating people into labels and groups just makes more labels and groups. Perhaps we should get beyond all that.
June 15th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Stanford, there may need to be a day set aside for men who DON’T feel emasculated by masculine women. Heh!
June 15th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Then something woke you, didn’t it? Was it a dream? What was it?
I heard a strange noise.
What was it?
It was screaming.
Some kind of screaming. Like a child’s voice.
What did you do?
I went downstairs.
Outside.
I crept up into the barn.
I was so scared to look inside, but I had to.
What did you see, Clarice? What did you see?
Lambs.
They were screaming.
They were slaughtering the spring lambs?
And they were screaming.
– And you ran away? – No. First I tried to free them.
I opened the gate to their pen, but they wouldn’t run.
They just stood there, confused. They wouldn’t run.
But you could – and you did, didn’t you?
Yes. I took one lamb and I ran away as fast as I could.
– Where were you going, Clarice? – I don’t know. I didn’t have any food,
any water and it was very cold, very cold.
I thought…
I thought if I could save just one, but…
He was so heavy.
So heavy.
I didn’t get more than a few miles when the sheriff’s car picked me up.
The rancher was so angry, he sent me to live at the orphanage in Bozeman.
I never saw the ranch again.
What became of your lamb, Clarice?
– He killed him. – You still wake up sometimes, don’t you?
Wake up in the dark
and hear the screaming of the lambs?
Yes.
And you think, if you save poor Catherine, you could make them stop, don’t you?
You think if Catherine lives,
you won’t wake up in the dark ever again
to that awful screaming of the lambs.
I don’t know.
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June 15th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
That’s profound Klo. Does National Man Day make you think of Silence of the Lambs? I’m trying to think of what the connection is.
June 16th, 2009 at 5:40 am
Of course theres a connection Beth.
Us conservatives are just to narrow minded and unable to grasp the complexities of the abstract liberal mind.
Its like the guy who tosses a handful of crap on the wall, says its art and then goes into a long rendition of what he sees in it. ” the final product of mankinds term on earth” and bla bla bla.
Then again, he could be a serial killing cannibal.
By the way, the guy in the pic, he’s a little “village people” wouldnt you say ?
June 16th, 2009 at 6:39 am
I see Klo has gotten her daily enema. Oops, I’m trying to be more sensitive. Micky – HA! That didn’t occur to me but I can see the guy in the scene in “Full Metal Jacket”….”This is my rifle, this is my gun…..”
June 16th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Oh man. Now I’m going to have to change that photo because I intentionally avoided the Village People kind of models. Oh me.