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Real men are passing away...

The old man has fallen. Cavemen have been defeated and all that's left is weakened shards of a man that once was.

Terrible. Devastating. Historical.

Most men are not real men anymore. Real man in the sense of pure manly things. Things that say, "never mind him. that's what men do." Not in the noble sense of chivalry or galant braves on horseback willing to die for the cause. This is not the type of manly activities on display here. I will save the lack of great leaders and war counselors and gladiators for another day, another place.

A large growing group of men are just not men anymore. This new age of men get manicures and wear an earring in both ears. Pirates who would shiver your timbers if you looked at them wrong had one earring. Huns who would gut you for thinking about defeating Attila had one earring. Now men wear two like showgirls in the saloon at the OK Corral.

You should be able to distinguish a man from a woman when they have clothes on. It should be fairly simple to be a man - be the opposite of women. Not hard. Not LINUX programming or cloud computing. If women wear tight jeans, then men shouldn't wear tight jeans. If women carry little tiny backpacks on their backs with a hat to match, then men shouldn't wear little tiny backpacks and matching hats. Women cry and whine all the time, men should suck it up and keep moving.

Men these days don't like manly things for some reason. Football is a man's sport. It involves violent collisions and requires brute strength. Intelligence is involved but if intelligence was the main ingredient any 105 lb nerd could be in a football game. I know men who don't like football. I hate to even type that. They like True Blood and Percy Jackson but they're just not into football. Stop it. Men should like manly things. Men should like cars, and fixing things and tasks that require you to use your hands. Computers are great things but if you don't know a phillips from a flathead screwdriver you are not a real man.

Being a man is something a woman cannot teach her son and unfortunately a lot of sons are growing up without fathers or some imitation man who DVRs Hawthorne and prefers a lawnmower with a cord on it.

Soft. Too many tender filet mignon brothers and not enough tough t-bones with a spine. Every man is not a handy man but every man should think he is a handy man. I might not be able to rebuild a transmission but damnit I will do $200 worth of damage to my car thinking I can put on my own starter.

I see women telling their small sons not to play so rough. Its not their fault. If a real man was present he would tell her to let the boy do his thing. Your mother is supposed to sign you up for soccer instead of football. Your father is the one that drives past the soccer field and takes you to the peewee football tryout and tells you he's going to talk to your mother later.

It is just disheartening as a real man to keep encountering all these frauds. And when a group of women bash men, most of the time you can't even stand up and defend your gender because most of it is so painfully true.

I don't know when the real men are returning. But hopefully they'll be back to take my son under their wing and keep him on the road of manly men after I'm gone.

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