Especially those little white spiders. Someone has to eat all the mesquitos.
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Especially those little white spiders. Someone has to eat all the mesquitos.
I love that Modern women are free to persue any and all careers on an equal footing with men, we are no longer forced by law or social pressure to conform to the norms expected of us.
But even I have to admit that there are some things that the average man will always be better at than the average women. Yes an exeptionaly strong women may be able to be a fireperson, but the station will always be filled with a greater number of men.
I love that we have the opportunity to be the same, but I have to admit our differences.
My point is that you can't just say all this feeling masculine is down to nurture and conditioning, there must be an element of nature at play.
There seem to be differences in males and females. I suspect much of it is due to nurture. I know one area in which my wife and I differ is our appreciation of all things fragrant. I like flowers, I like those nice smelling air fresheners etc, but to be honest I would never think of actually buying any. Yet my wife considers them essential. I don't have a problem with this - I don't mind in the least, but I have to admit that I would not even notice if our stocks of all things fragrant ran down.
What is hilarious at the moment are the attempts by cosmetics companies towoo blokes into caring and buying creams and stuff. "Men! Does your (tough) skim turn to leather when you shower?(In a manly way). (My brackets). This is for some post showering lotion stuff. They are attempting to fuel men's egos by doing this laughable balancing act between tough and looking after yourself.
They use a tough voice, leather images, model/ actor/ references to manly things etc etc. All for the cash in your pocket. Hre's the US version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-gsd7IMjc
:lol: Love the video.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
It might not be manly but I do carry moisturiser around in my work bag. :lol: Well, for those dry skin moments (from shaving). I make the mistake of getting it out in the staffroom the other day, not that I care, but one or two did take the .... a quite bit!
The advert for women tells us that "Only Dove is one-quarter moisturizing cream".
For men it suddenly becomes "Advanced 1/4 moisturiser technology" .
That does make me laugh.
Be careful Neely, this guy started out using moisturiser.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/2...asqc2008f2.jpg
I use my wife's moisturiser, just because you're a chap doesn't mean you have to put up with chapped hands.
:lol: We've gone from women, blood red steak and wall building to moisturiser use.
What next?Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
http://youtu.be/BvAJnbrvwwk
Men in skirts. I guess I just found something that would not make me feel masculine. I don't use moisturizer either, but then I don't have dry skin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
:lol: "Are you ready to take the plunge and wear a skirt in public?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
No.
Thank heaven for that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
Hmmh - I actually think that it would take quite some cojones to wear a skirt publicly.
I think that I agree with Mark on this question - how would you separate the sensation of being male from all the other sensations of being yourself?
(I suspect that one could answer that using biology, testosterone levels and control groups but that does seem somewhat of a bother to me)
Yelling FUS RO DAH!
That's because you do a masculine job of work with your hands. Any use for other reasons than this is....:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
What else can I chuck in the mix....
When I was 10 I wore my cousin's high heels into town because her friend dared me to. I got 5 bucks out of it and spent it all on candy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
Refusals make me feel masculine:
1. Refusal to ask for directions even though I should have reached my destination at least 15 minutes ago.
2. Refusal to read the instructions on DIY kits even though the task should have finished half an hour ago.
3. Refusal to admit that I lost an argument even though everyone else present realised it at least 10 minutes ago.
But would you do it now ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Darcy88
Would depend on the stakes, on what I would get out of it. If I made a bet in which the terms required the loser to walk around in public with heels on I would do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
You would get a lot of wolf whistles and more that a few propositions if you tried it in the UK.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darcy88
:lol: Now, now.
Men are like homing pigeons; we don't need maps or directions!Quote:
1. Refusal to ask for directions even though I should have reached my destination at least 15 minutes ago.
But, but, the instructions are all in Japanese and it's not our fault if there are two section Fs and no slots for point Ds...and two missing A4 screws. The diagram is also an unreadable scribble which looks like it has been drawn up by a monkey. No, much better to fumble along.Quote:
2. Refusal to read the instructions on DIY kits even though the task should have finished half an hour ago.
Men never lose arguments.Quote:
3. Refusal to admit that I lost an argument even though everyone else present realised it at least 10 minutes ago.
Especially if he had a pint in that colourful pub you mentioned the other day.Quote:
You would get a lot of wolf whistles and more that a few propositions if you tried it in the UK.
It would indeed be unwise unless the wearing of high heels had reached a point where the wearer began to like it. In which case, there would be many of a similar disposition inviting him to join the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
Bah! Litnet is always implying that I'm gender-impared, I don't get this kind of guff in real life. Women and men are expected to be able to chop wood and clean* a deer in the frozen rural wastelands of Northern Alberta.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexander III
*to "clean" means to "gut" in the language of you soft-handed scholars who wouldn't know a compound bow from a recurve bow.
You were born in rural northern Alberta. My dear, there was never any chance of you not becoming gender-impaired.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
Have you ever met a parisian girl? They are the most obstinant, elitist, high standar, delicate, arogant and ladylike of all the women. It would be facinating to see you with the parisian girls.
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:smilielol5: Ha ha, you got there before I did. I think a small reminder now and again would be in order.Quote:
You were born in rural northern Alberta. My dear, there was never any chance of you not becoming gender-impaired.
I can attest to that, but the nearest to Paris LitNet's gender-impaired member has been, is the plaster of paris that is applied when she occasionally injures herself fighting grizzly bears and chopping down trees.Quote:
Have you ever met a parisian girl? They are the most obstinant, elitist, high standar, delicate, arogant and ladylike of all the women. It would be facinating to see you with the parisian girls
Haha, yes it would be. I guess our interaction would depend on whether they're in my world or I'm in theirs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexander III
I've never met an "upper class" girl, at least not the classic film-style variety. The rich people in Alberta are world-class rich because of our oil sands, and they're all about cowboy stuff, think Texas-style rich. the closest I've ever come to a person who was "delicate" and "elitist" was a girl who I was briefly partnered up with on my first day of bio 108. Apparently, she was from a private school in America (I was very impressed, I assure you). Chick didn't even know how to focus a microscope.
You don't fight grizzly bears, duh. You back up slowly, holding your hands palm foreward at shoulder level and say "woah bear" over and over in a soothing tone. If they rush you freeze and if they take a swat at you go limp, unless they start to bury you which means they plan on eating you in which case go for the eyes and nose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
...What? Doesn't everyone have "how to survive a bear encounter" in their elementary school curriculum?
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:lol: I'm definitely beginning to warm to grizzly bears.Quote:
If they rush you or take a swat go limp, unless they start to bury you which means they plan on eating you in which case go for the eyes and nose.
Don't get too excited, they very rarely go that far. 99% of the time they'll just sit there on their fat bear *** going about their business and ignoring you completely, their sense of smell is insanely strong and they've known you were in the area for a long while. I've been in three bear encounters (two black bears and one grizzly), most people here have had at least one and no one that I personally know has had any problems. You just see them, usually from a distance, you get a little scare, they don't even look up and you leave the area ASAP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
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We can but hope.:lol:Quote:
Don't get too excited, they very rarely go that far.
Haha, this blatantly wishing young girls dead, is that the kind of maturity I can expect when I reach your ripe old age? Gee, no wonder you're so proud of yourself and the kind of person you've blossomed into.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
:lol::lol: The last one in particular brings out my "manly" side.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I wouldn't want to equate a feeling of power over men with masculinity because that would detract from feeling feminine. I work in debt and often reduce a man to tears because of his situation but I don't feel like I've grown some balls over it. I do feel in total control though - with some of them, I actually enjoy it, while others illicit a more tender response from me but it's power all the same. So I would have to say that power and feeling masculine are not exclusive.
You don't fight grizzly bears, duh. You back up slowly, holding your hands palm foreward at shoulder level and say "woah bear" over and over in a soothing tone. If they rush you freeze and if they take a swat at you go limp, unless they start to bury you which means they plan on eating you in which case go for the eyes and nose.
...What? Doesn't everyone have "how to survive a bear encounter" in their elementary school curriculum?
The grizzly bear curriculum was eliminated here sometime back in the early 19th century... if not even earlier. I doubt a grizzly bear could survive in urban America for long. Bows are the last thing they would need to fear as the only people owning them are sports-hunters who employ them on weekend jaunts in forests of Pennsylvania or West Virginia. Any grizzly around here would have far larger concerns than some goober with a crossbow starting with gang-bangers armed with automatic weapons.
...That was the obvious implied knowledge that I was banking on when I first employed sarcasm in the following sentence:Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
I was trying to make people think "haha, no one outside of Northern Canada has 'how to survive a grizzly attack' in school anymore, silly, no where else has grizzly bears of course! And no one except for a hunter would care about the distinction between a compound and a recurve bow, that's completely useless knowledge to most people!" without this obvious conlusion in mind, the light-hearted point I was trying to make (that I'm considered "boyish" to many litnetters because of my location and the lifestyle/hobbies, such as hunting, adopted by my Northern-Canadian friends and family including myself) doesn't work. The entire point of all of this being that I know that I'm strange to some of you in terms of gender stereotypes, and I am the way I am (as you are the way you are) because of my upbringing, which implies that the way we think about gender is the result of environment rather than genetics (or "nurture rather than nature," although I hate that stupid trendy term).Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
I'm tired of explaining my posts, I've got to remember to ALWAYS include the sarcasm disclaimer. I thought that the "...What?" pre-curser was classic-comedy-sketch enough to hammer the implied sarcasm home without the disclaimer. Ah well, I was warned that this would happen.
Sex, opening pickle jars and driving like a wideboy. Wearing sunglasses too (for some reason) :cool:
Well for those of the weaker sex (and I mean that most sincerely), here's a little tip for opening pickle jars, if you don't know it already.Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick_Bateman
Take a sharp implement, such as a kitchen knife, and puncture the tin lid, that will release the air pressure and allow you to open the jar easily.
I think StLukes was also responding with some very dry sarcasm there, which, if the case, makes that post pretty funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
As for bears, I take Stephen Colbert's stance. They are bloodthirsty, killing machine marauders of the night, and they must all be exterminated.
"Grizzly Man" was fascinating. That guy who lived with and was ultimately eaten by grizzly bears. Sad, interesting story. Have any of you seen it?
Yeah, that guy was whack. I wonder what the bears were thinking, they've likely never seen behavior like that from a human before.Quote:
Originally Posted by Varenne Rodin
He was like a little child, thinking he was having squabbles with other kids on the playground or something. Picking his favorites, calling others "brats." It seemed inevitable to me that he would be killed, even as far back as his visits to David Letterman's show. He was mentally ill. At times his behavior was really amusing and endearing, but perhaps someone should have stepped in and redirected him to checking out otters, or dolphins, or little baby chickens.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf