tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post5985080976990902666..comments2024-03-01T00:14:52.680-08:00Comments on The Writer in Black: Fisking 27 ways to be a modern manThe Writer in Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00634971729839053990noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-38806980804898389162015-10-21T14:35:07.953-07:002015-10-21T14:35:07.953-07:00Back to the future 2015 :)Back to the future 2015 :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03236601970158977994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-19758445518281056862015-10-04T21:04:11.250-07:002015-10-04T21:04:11.250-07:00Congratulations on the Instalanche.Congratulations on the Instalanche.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16718975258496970329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-62099757749646788162015-10-04T21:04:00.993-07:002015-10-04T21:04:00.993-07:00Congratulations on the Instalanche.Congratulations on the Instalanche.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16718975258496970329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-59162577873692742562015-10-03T19:47:35.378-07:002015-10-03T19:47:35.378-07:00Charles, what college did this person you know att...Charles, what college did this person you know attend?<br />As Bluto said in "Animal House", "That's seven years down the drain." Windy Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951254236693386401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-40306882359459195582015-10-03T18:02:11.659-07:002015-10-03T18:02:11.659-07:00That, however, would be a special case rather than...That, however, would be a special case rather than a general rule that's a defining characteristic of a "modern man."<br />The Writer in Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00634971729839053990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-53534107344579133782015-10-03T18:01:09.113-07:002015-10-03T18:01:09.113-07:00"The Eastwood quote... It's actually.&quo..."The Eastwood quote... It's actually."<br /><br />That's a similar quote. But from Magnum Force:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VrFV5r8cs0<br />The Writer in Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00634971729839053990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-51152665841623127482015-10-03T15:50:54.300-07:002015-10-03T15:50:54.300-07:00Sounds more like the Post-Modern Man to me.Sounds more like the Post-Modern Man to me.kkollwitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-13061195019523479362015-10-03T15:50:37.793-07:002015-10-03T15:50:37.793-07:00Sounds more like the Post-Modern Man to me.Sounds more like the Post-Modern Man to me.kkollwitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17691145638703824456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-4741166332908441702015-10-03T14:51:06.064-07:002015-10-03T14:51:06.064-07:00A minor nit. The Eastwood quote that everybody &q...A minor nit. The Eastwood quote that everybody "knows" is incorrect. It's actually "Well, you're a good man, lieutenant. A good man always knows his limitations..."Calvin Dodgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15555304795364854098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-15227339535518627042015-10-03T13:49:21.413-07:002015-10-03T13:49:21.413-07:00Disagree about the shoehorn. My feet are too damn...Disagree about the shoehorn. My feet are too damn wide to go inside the opening of shoes that are a comfortable fit after getting them on, and a shoehorn protects the heel-side of the opening while I cram the obstinate things on. I still have my Dad's shoehorn that he got over 50 years ago, so I'll grant you it's not "modern"...Captain Nerdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469780969931792897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-16888818973500920032015-10-03T11:22:35.885-07:002015-10-03T11:22:35.885-07:00NYT's "modern man" is obviously gay....NYT's "modern man" is obviously gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but he seems to think that everyone else should be gay too, or else they are not modern, or not a man? You have to be gay to be a man? Really?<br /><br />But this is perfectly in line with double-standard supremacism that the various groups who phony claims of victim status are all demanding these days as their due redress, and are all receiving as their payment for joining the Democrat's 51% tyranny of the majority. <br /><br />It is no longer enough to tolerate homosexual behavior. Now everyone must approve it (marriage being society's stamp of approval), and those who only tolerate without approving are not themselves tolerated, but are severely punished by the power of the state. The small tolerated minority transforms into the intolerant power. <br /><br />By this standard, of course you have to be gay to be a man. Gays are no longer a minor group relying on and receiving the tolerance of the majority, they are an intolerant group, out to marginalize and destroy all who do not approve of them.<br /><br />I live in Palo Alto, here the high school just ended its tradition of selecting a homecoming king and queen with their male and female courts on the grounds that this tradition might be uncomfortable or offensive to transgender students or staff. You know, like when Morgan Hill banned American flags from school property on the grounds that it might offend the large percentage of students whose loyalty is to Mexico, not the United States. <br /><br />But wait a minute. If anyone expresses discomfort about transgender students they would be subject to severe re-education demands if not expulsion, so why is discomfort by hypothetical transgenders not only presumed but validated and placed as a controlling interest? Again, majority views are not tolerated while minority views are not just tolerated but are imposed on all. <br /><br />People of Mexican heritage are presumed to be offended by the American flag in the same school where any student to took offense at the Mexican flag would subject to extreme corrective measures by the state. Tolerance for majority views is denied and approval for minority views is required. <br /><br />Same on race. The vast majority of interracial crime in America is black on white, the only news stories in which race is raised as an issue are the rare man-bites-dog cases where a white attacks a black. Brutal intolerance by blacks is swept under the rug, while tolerant disapproval of the manifest perversities of black American culture are not tolerated. <br /><br />In every institution that Democrats control—the news media, entertainment, academia, K-12, the professional societies, most philanthropies, most social media and the Democratic Party—this monstrous inversion of the necessary priority of tolerance over approval is virtually total. To the extent that this ideology is enforced it is the absolute destruction of liberty to the very last brick, a complete totalitarianism. <br /><br />The only saving grace is that Democrats only have partial power. They control all of our information industries but they have not achieved a secure majority of political power, so we are not done yet, but we are very damned close, and the K-12 brainwashing of the next generation will make them very hard to beat.<br /><br />The NYT's gay "modern man" is a ludicrously bad joke, but it is also a very dangerous joke, like finding a single Lionfish where invasive species had not been previously found. It tells us, oh no, the infection has is here now too, and as idiotic as this Lionfish looks, it will be hard to push back. These perverts are raising YOUR kids, six hours a day, plus television time, plus social media time. They are very close to winning/destroying everything. Alec Rawlshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14660406756291016118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-89793982291566914502015-10-03T09:29:55.224-07:002015-10-03T09:29:55.224-07:00If I ever came home with shoes for the SO I'd ...If I ever came home with shoes for the SO I'd be ducking like George Bush - who in God's name ever thought this nonsense would bring anything except ridicule?Bandithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02334898079341026590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-37127571174190818732015-10-03T09:21:19.089-07:002015-10-03T09:21:19.089-07:00or has a shoe fetish.
Not that there's anythin...or has a shoe fetish.<br />Not that there's anything wrong with that.... ;)The Writer in Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00634971729839053990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-41479185595900941662015-10-03T09:19:36.347-07:002015-10-03T09:19:36.347-07:00 Bruce -- #16 sounds like a man who is very fea... Bruce -- #16 sounds like a man who is very fearful of the world, almost paranoid. I once knew a man who was so fearful of burglars that he put his wallet on the coffee table in the living room, and had his wife and children do likewise, so that intruders could steal them without entering the bedrooms (and possibly shooting them). <br /> This was a man with a wife, three children, and seven years of college education. <br /> Personally, I prefer the kind of man endorsed by the Patriarchy of long ago: cheerful, friendly, self-confident, and virile, without being abusive or bullying. It may be hard to achieve in real life, but it seems more admirable than the New York Times concept we see here. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14568854327625464055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-35869731652805142032015-10-03T09:01:55.823-07:002015-10-03T09:01:55.823-07:00Daniel OBrien -- I agree. I can't conceive of...Daniel OBrien -- I agree. I can't conceive of a man knowing that much about women's shoes unless he works in the industry or has a shoe fetish. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14568854327625464055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-68140237678023486582015-10-03T08:49:56.701-07:002015-10-03T08:49:56.701-07:00The modern man seems to be a girlie man according ...The modern man seems to be a girlie man according to the NYT.Rick Cairdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08245560010738892296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-72868414755814436722015-10-03T07:46:28.972-07:002015-10-03T07:46:28.972-07:00The original was a parody, right? Who buys shoes f...The original was a parody, right? Who buys shoes for their wife? Whose wife wants their husband buying their shows? No one.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16718266524335017117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-56794675536629926982015-10-03T07:27:11.287-07:002015-10-03T07:27:11.287-07:00Here's the response I posted earlier on this.....Here's the response I posted earlier on this...<br /><br />One of the single most ridiculous articles you'll read this century.<br /><br />#16. The modern man lies on the side of the bed closer to the door. If an intruder gets in, he will try to fight him off, so that his wife has a chance to get away.<br /><br />OK....first, a real man will ask his wife which side she prefers, and takes the other side as his.<br /><br />Second, real men marry real women. If the real man is fighting with an intruder, it's to buy time for his real woman to get the Remington 870 or the Smith & Wesson .38 out of the safe and shoot the goblin in the head.<br /><br />Real women don't run away and abandon their husbands when they're in danger.<br /><br />And this is where it gets good...<br /><br />#25. The modern mas has no use for a gun. He doesn't own one, and he never will.<br /><br />This is from the same guy who wrote item #16 on the list.<br /><br />Modern men might not want to be able to protect their wives and children from harm. But real men sure as shit do. Real men also have guns in the house so that they can teach their wives and daughters how to shoot and become empowered women who don't have to live their lives dependent on men for their well-being and safety.<br /><br />Modern men are dicks.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471261070846031215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-64683920921055695132015-10-03T07:22:08.664-07:002015-10-03T07:22:08.664-07:00Here's the response I posted earlier on this.....Here's the response I posted earlier on this...<br /><br />One of the single most ridiculous articles you'll read this century.<br /><br />#16. The modern man lies on the side of the bed closer to the door. If an intruder gets in, he will try to fight him off, so that his wife has a chance to get away.<br /><br />OK....first, a real man will ask his wife which side she prefers, and takes the other side as his.<br /><br />Second, real men marry real women. If the real man is fighting with an intruder, it's to buy time for his real woman to get the Remington 870 or the Smith & Wesson .38 out of the safe and shoot the goblin in the head.<br /><br />Real women don't run away and abandon their husbands when they're in danger.<br /><br />And this is where it gets good...<br /><br />#25. The modern mas has no use for a gun. He doesn't own one, and he never will.<br /><br />This is from the same guy who wrote item #16 on the list.<br /><br />Modern men might not want to be able to protect their wives and children from harm. But real men sure as shit do. Real men also have guns in the house so that they can teach their wives and daughters how to shoot and become empowered women who don't have to live their lives dependent on men for their well-being and safety.<br /><br />Modern men are dicks.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471261070846031215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-36514668931049389182015-10-03T07:13:35.784-07:002015-10-03T07:13:35.784-07:00The 'modern man' as described in the origi...The 'modern man' as described in the original piece...is a modern woman. They will die off in short order when the going gets tough. And it will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-51381069900160292782015-10-03T06:48:15.829-07:002015-10-03T06:48:15.829-07:00Spot on! The modern man knows in his gut what is ...Spot on! The modern man knows in his gut what is right and what is wrong. He sure as hell doesn't get it from Modern Media.rlutzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05553531281073192758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-52206987085356571122015-10-03T05:16:57.042-07:002015-10-03T05:16:57.042-07:00Excellent!Excellent!Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11326335220090874104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-65887331537077942382015-10-03T03:55:50.106-07:002015-10-03T03:55:50.106-07:00The modern man in this account has about as much f...The modern man in this account has about as much function as an appendix. He also seems to have almost no self-awareness.Orwell46https://www.blogger.com/profile/00818298442850341569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927684037486881914.post-50197768096239381142015-10-02T20:05:38.582-07:002015-10-02T20:05:38.582-07:00The modern man has apparently had his testicles re...The modern man has apparently had his testicles removed.<br />Your Fisk is pretty much spot on.Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07963911557792612446noreply@blogger.com