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ArtOfManliness.com

There's some interesting stuff on this site. Manliness may not be lacking from this board, but it certainly is becoming more and more rare in the culture.


(Edited to change "and" into "an" in the topic title....)

Good find, and thanks for sharing!

I use a high-quality electric razor most days, but when I want a "good" shave, I always get out my mug of shaving soap and my brush.

I frequent this site myself.

My wife reads a lot of blogs for women which have preparedness/old-fashioned-home-making/simple-living themes to them. She ran across a link to the Art of Manliness site on one of those other sites and pointed it out to me. I can't stop reading it because it is so refreshing. I'm an old-fashioned guy, and the "manly virtues" have become (sadly) old-fashioned virtues. I think the world is a worse place when men (meaning those with a "Y" chromosome) trade in their manly nature for metrosexuality and effete acquiescence to feminist domination of their lives.

It's not that I have no use for feminism—I prefer strong women over useless high-maintenance women—but I do not think that political equality for women is best achieved by subverting manhood. I decry this modern sensibility that tries to subjugate a man's essential nature to some kind of androgenous farce of a culture. Men are men. Women are women. God (or nature or whatever your believe in) made us that way. The difference should be celebrated, rather than eradicated. When old-fashioned manliness is regarded as archaic, anachronistic, useless, or even a bad influence on the culture, that is a culture that is breaking up on the proverbial rocks of reality's shores.

Nature abhors a vaccum. When men won't cowboy up and be men, something else will rush in and fill the void. The result is a loss of balance in life, interpersonal relationships, culture, faith, what-have-you. I think that manliness is a positive force for good. It should be encouraged. It often seems like our public schools these days exist specifically to eradicate manliness. Popular culture discourages it. In the 1950s/1960s, popular TV sitcom programming portrayed fathers as generally benevolent, wise, protective, and good providers. Somewhere after that, fathers became portrayed as slothful, inept, and generally clueless. We speak things into being. When the culture speaks a loss of manliness into being, a culture of eunuchs is the result because the path of least resistance is always the easiest and it is the path that men (and women) will walk down unless they are inspired to be better than the culture calls them to be. This is something that the nation's founders instinctively knew, and thus they wrote and/or promoted books on virtuous living. They knew that absent public virtue, a constitutional republic could not exist.

It takes effort to uphold and promote virtue. Without a deliberate effort to promote virtue, cultural entropy is the natural outcome. The manly virtues constitutue half of the necessary ingredients, and womanly virtues the other half. Vive la difference.

Amen.

TAM and his brilliance. Seems like every post he puts up for me to read comes across as fatherly advice....

On a side note, I frequent this site as well. I read up on the Carnival Trick article before going to the state fair. Won a big giant teddy bear for the wifey on it's advice.

I shave with an electric razor... just makes my life easier. Started that in the military when I was shaving every morning.. I shave every other day now, and my face appreciates the break.

http://artofmanliness.com/2009/06/23/15-manly-smells/
That article is when I added the blog to my RSS feed. There's also great articles on buying suits (fused vs. fully canvassed), shaving, umbrellas, etc. A great mix of information and humour.

you can sign up for daily updates, too.

Please have the Mrs. Pleasant Woman share some of her blog sites for the ladies! Always looking for more tips and hints on the simpler life.

The Annoyed Man wrote:My wife reads a lot of blogs for women which have preparedness/old-fashioned-home-making/simple-living themes to them. She ran across a link to the Art of Manliness site on one of those other sites and pointed it out to me. I can't stop reading it because it is so refreshing. I'm an old-fashioned guy, and the "manly virtues" have become (sadly) old-fashioned virtues. I think the world is a worse place when men (meaning those with a "Y" chromosome) trade in their manly nature for metrosexuality and effete acquiescence to feminist domination of their lives.

It's not that I have no use for feminism—I prefer strong women over useless high-maintenance women—but I do not think that political equality for women is best achieved by subverting manhood. I decry this modern sensibility that tries to subjugate a man's essential nature to some kind of androgenous farce of a culture. Men are men. Women are women. God (or nature or whatever your believe in) made us that way. The difference should be celebrated, rather than eradicated. When old-fashioned manliness is regarded as archaic, anachronistic, useless, or even a bad influence on the culture, that is a culture that is breaking up on the proverbial rocks of reality's shores.

Nature abhors a vaccum. When men won't cowboy up and be men, something else will rush in and fill the void. The result is a loss of balance in life, interpersonal relationships, culture, faith, what-have-you. I think that manliness is a positive force for good. It should be encouraged. It often seems like our public schools these days exist specifically to eradicate manliness. Popular culture discourages it. In the 1950s/1960s, popular TV sitcom programming portrayed fathers as generally benevolent, wise, protective, and good providers. Somewhere after that, fathers became portrayed as slothful, inept, and generally clueless. We speak things into being. When the culture speaks a loss of manliness into being, a culture of eunuchs is the result because the path of least resistance is always the easiest and it is the path that men (and women) will walk down unless they are inspired to be better than the culture calls them to be. This is something that the nation's founders instinctively knew, and thus they wrote and/or promoted books on virtuous living. They knew that absent public virtue, a constitutional republic could not exist.

It takes effort to uphold and promote virtue. Without a deliberate effort to promote virtue, cultural entropy is the natural outcome. The manly virtues constitutue half of the necessary ingredients, and womanly virtues the other half. Vive la difference.

I, like many of the others who have commented on this post, agree about TAM's well articulated ideas. I often go to say something in reply to a post, and I find he has not only beaten my to the idea that I had, but done it better than I would have. And I mean that in a good way. I'd really love to see TAM write a daily column, I know I'd read it for certain!

Wow. That is indeed interesting. I'm not sure I can afford to have found it - I could spend way too much time reading on it.

Divided Attention wrote:Please have the Mrs. Pleasant Woman share some of her blog sites for the ladies! Always looking for more tips and hints on the simpler life.

I'll pass that on. I've tried to convince her before, but she's not big on posting on internet forums. I don't know why.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Divided Attention wrote:Please have the Mrs. Pleasant Woman share some of her blog sites for the ladies! Always looking for more tips and hints on the simpler life.

I'll pass that on. I've tried to convince her before, but she's not big on posting on internet forums. I don't know why.

If she won't post herself, could you get her to give you the info for the blogs and then you could post them?

LikesShinyThings wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Divided Attention wrote:Please have the Mrs. Pleasant Woman share some of her blog sites for the ladies! Always looking for more tips and hints on the simpler life.

I'll pass that on. I've tried to convince her before, but she's not big on posting on internet forums. I don't know why.

If she won't post herself, could you get her to give you the info for the blogs and then you could post them?

Sure.