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I was at a dinner party this a few weeks with some former co-workers and old friends. We had a few drinks, sat around and started talking sh*t about all the world’s problems, one of which being…men. Not the typical-woman-man-hating-wanting-to-castrate men but more asking where have all the real men gone. We started jumping from dating to education to fashion, and skinny jeans came up…
…so you know I jumped all on that. And if you have to guess which side of the issue I stand on, you are not TrueMan Approved and should leave this blog now.
Our host disagreed with my views and said that it was just fashion and who was I to question what was “manly.”
I wanted to say, “Who am I??! Who am I?!! Dammit, I’m TrueMan, the standard to which other men are measured, and if anything I’ve said about skinny jeans offends anyone on the face of the planet, then take them out ya gotdamn closet and burn them!”
However, I kept it simple…”If not me…then who?”
There have to be bare minimums. There have to be standards. There have to be degrees of what a man does and what a man doesn’t do. And there has to be someone to enforce them. That’s where I come in…
There has to be someone to stand up for truth, justice, and the manly way. And since no one has stood up to say things like men wearing silk scarfs, skinny jeans, and most important, anything associated with Kanye West are not manly, then dammit, I’ll step into the phone booth, change in TrueMan, and fly off to combat unmanliness wherever I see it.
A man will stand up for his belief, even if no one will stand up with him. So dammit, I’m standing up against skinny jeans.
To my fellow men reading this blog, I ask you…who will stand with me?
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