Being "Manly"
Posted on 06. Jun, 2007 by Brian Reid in General
Last week, the Washington Post devoted a great many words to asking the question “What Does It Mean to Be Manly?,” but the piece missed a fairly important point — being manly, nowadays, includes being an active father. This is a message that is being drilled at just about every level of society. But the author, Laura Sessions Stepp, doesn’t mention fatherhood at all. She’s immersed in the teenage demographic, so she spends a lot more time wondering what kinds of boys can get away with wearing green Polo shirts.
That’s too bad. There is an actual revolution going on — not in what Johnny Depp wears around his wrist — but how a new generation of fathers is looking at their responsibilities in life. Too bad Sessions Stepp seems to miss that.
lizriz
20. Jun, 2007
OK, I’m late to the party on this post, and this is a little off topic, but I had to laugh out loud at this: “R&B singer Akon, who clinched a Grammy nomination for singing about “smacking” a woman, practically croons in another tune “how much of a queen you are to me and why I love you, baby.”" The Akon song must be “Smack That,” which is about smacking a girl’s ass during sex, not like smacking her around. I guess the author of that article doesn’t really listen to that type of music much.