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How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump
« on: October 16, 2016, 12:19:07 am »
How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump

By PEGGY ORENSTEINOCT. 15, 2016

ONE afternoon, while reporting for a book on girls’ sexual experience, I sat in on a health class at a progressive Bay Area high school. Toward the end of the session, a blond boy wearing a school athletic jersey raised his hand. “You know that baseball metaphor for sex?” he asked. “Well, in baseball there’s a winner and a loser. So who is supposed to be the ‘loser’ in sex?”

That question has floated back to me over the past 10 days as the stream of revelations about Donald J. Trump surfaced: the vile comments he fobbed off as boys will be 59-year-old boys bluster; the allegations that he jammed his tongue down the throat of a People magazine reporter; grabbed the rear of a woman who was visiting his home in Palm Beach; came at a stranger on an airplane “like an octopus”; groped and kissed a former “Apprentice” contestant during a meeting in his office; and barged into the dressing room of the Miss Teen USA pageant on seminude contestants, some of whom were underage.

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Re: How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2016, 12:23:20 am »
Same way as last year. Same way as yesterday. Same way as tomorrow.

Being a man doesn't change.
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Re: How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2016, 03:03:20 am »
How to be a man in the age of Trump? Easy. Observe Donaldus Minimus---and do the precise opposite.
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Re: How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2016, 03:16:45 am »
Great. Now Donny has given the radical Left ammo to not only indict the GOP, but all males. Swell.
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Re: How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump
« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2016, 03:27:02 am »
Quote from: EC on October 16, 2016, 12:23:20 am
Same way as last year. Same way as yesterday. Same way as tomorrow.

Being a man doesn't change.

Yup. Just be yourself rather than trying to be some cookie-cutter man.
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Re: How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2016, 03:55:47 am »
Considering that Donnie isn't a real man, what's the point of the question?  Be an honorable human being; that ought to be sufficient.
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Re: How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2016, 04:11:16 am »
You know, I know a book - or maybe you could call it a whole library of books bound in a single cover - that addresses this topic rather well...
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Re: How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2016, 04:36:50 am »
Quote from: bolobaby on October 16, 2016, 04:11:16 am
You know, I know a book - or maybe you could call it a whole library of books bound in a single cover - that addresses this topic rather well...

Funk and Wagnalls?
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Re: How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2016, 11:07:45 pm »
How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump


Have a pair of testicles?
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Re: How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2016, 11:29:13 pm »
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"A real man stands among equals, carries those who are weaker, and kneels before God.
Everything else is just details."

From Pan Yan, over on FR, in 2010.

This is a good set of basic skills to acquire: https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/07/50-things-a-man-should-be-able-to-do/
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Re: How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2016, 11:41:23 pm »
Quote from: EC on October 16, 2016, 12:23:20 am
Same way as last year. Same way as yesterday. Same way as tomorrow.

Being a man doesn't change.

And you may find yourself
Living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself
In another part of the world
And you may find yourself
Behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house
With a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, well
How did I get here?

Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
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