I almost feel bad posting a link every week, but I always find myself connecting what I learn and think about during this class to things online I've seen and/or stumbled upon recently or years ago. This one is from a while back. It's a website called The Art of Manliness and claims that it is "Reviving the lost art of manliness". The website preaches advice for really "being a man", such as "Do More Than One Stinking Pull-up", "A Beginner's Guide to Whittling", "Make a Dining Room Table by Thanksgiving", "How to Parallel Park...Like a Man!", and other articles that promote a stereotypical view of being "manly". While I find this website interesting and while I may or may not have read a few articles, I can't help feeling that while this website acknowledges that it's borrowing from the past, it's also taking a fundamental step backwards. It preaches how to be like a man in the 40s or 50s and promotes ideas of manliness that are outdated (or should be) and that this class is trying to correct. Who says how many pull-ups you can do makes you a man? Who says men should be good at making things from wood? Well, men do. Men keep themselves in line (hegemony, right?) by subscribing to websites like this one, helping to uphold these outdated ideas of "what makes a man." Absolutely preposterous...
...now excuse me while I read up on "How to Shave Like Your Grandpa"
http://artofmanliness.com/
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