Post: #26

(10-01-2015 12:37 PM)Cr33pin Wrote:  NY Times.......blah blah....the onion......

Yep, you got it.

Post: #27

(10-01-2015 01:17 PM)Kid Strangelove Wrote:  I think we all just got successfully click baited and gave them the outrage traffic that every online publication so desperately craves.

I heard a term that captures this...."hatebait"

Post: #28

I don't care much for this modern man business, but...

I know that masculine men don't take their marching orders from the pages of the New York Times.

Post: #29

I'd like to see how the list would be for the "The Modern Woman"

1. Isn't afraid to show off her confidence.

2. Doesn't need to get told she too old to have kids.

3. Cites her intelligence as her best aspect.

4. Knows size is just a number.

Etc.

Post: #30

This sounds like a wish list written by a post-wall single woman whose idea of a "Modern Man" sounds more like the proverbial "Gay Best Friend."

Post: #31

The modern man has seen a penis up close many times.

Post: #32

This list is a way to justify modern men for being lame? Who seriously gives a fuck what some sugary beverage someone else is drinking?

Post: #33

I wonder if 15 of the 27 ways to be a modern woman is going to the nth degree to make their partner happier or safer or even their lives slightly easier at the expense of the woman's? Or would that be the PATRIARCHY(!)?

Post: #34

Notice how none of this points are about the "modern man" but on how that man tiptoes around life trying not to offend or displease anyone?

Post: #35

What does it mean to be a grown man in the most powerful country of the world in 2015?

He's cares deeply about maintaining a society with strong values:

"How else would the cantaloupe, watermelon and honeydew he serves be so uniformly shaped?"

He's a traditional man, just like his grandfather:

"The modern man never lets other people know when his confidence has sunk."

He continues, publishing in the New York Times for the whole world to read:

"The modern man cries. He cries often. On occasion, the modern man is the little spoon. Some nights, when he is feeling down or vulnerable, he needs an emotional and physical shield."

And besides, being a real man is about hardwood flooring, Kenneth Cole oxfords, Irish Spring soap, drinking the right brands of sugar water and definitely not letting your wife know you have sexual urges when you buy her flowers to make up for the fact she's all too aware that you could never defend your family against intruders. That's what being a real man is about! #Hillary2016.

Post: #36

Like the others have said, more like 'the modern mangina'. I see this list as 27 reasons to stop reading the New York Times. Unless it is for comedy purposes

Post: #37

Quote:20. On occasion, the modern man is the little spoon.

On second thought, I can think of two reasons that this would be acceptable, and neither is the reason the article listed.

1. Your girl has large breasts and you like the way they feel on your back.

2. More than one girl is in your bed and you're sandwiched between them.

Post: #38

Quote:13. The modern man listens to Wu-Tang at least once a week.

Translation: Fantasizes about his wife being banged out by the entire Wu-Tang Clan while he sits in the corner masturbating with his own tears as lube.

Post: #39

27 Ways To Be A Modern Cuck

Post: #40

(10-01-2015 08:24 PM)CH-Toronto Wrote:  I'd like to see how the list would be for the "The Modern Woman"

1. Isn't afraid to show off her confidence.

2. Doesn't need to get told she too old to have kids.

3. Cites her intelligence as her best aspect.

4. Knows size is just a number.

Etc.

5. Claims the number of abortions she has makes her that much more empowered.

Post: #41

28. The Modern man enjoys being pegged with a Japanese "Pearl Rabbit" while his poly-amorous girlfriend calls him pathetic bitch.

Post: #42

^ 6. Isn't ashamed to show off her pharmacopoeia of psychotropic meds she is taking

This it the NY Times guys - its audience is super-leftard young adult men and mostly women. This kind of drivel is to be expected. Awful publication as far as spreading any sort of useful news or information, but certainly does it's job at making money off of typical pop-media tactics.

Post: #43

(10-01-2015 12:38 PM)Soma Wrote:  Is this satire? I can't tell.

(10-01-2015 12:49 PM)Veloce Wrote:  I can't tell if it's meant to be satire or not

The main purpose of this piece of text garbage is precisely to create the queasy-making feeling of "not knowing if it's satire". The pigs who write and publish this paper think that's really subtle and cool. Nothing like a slightly nauseating snark diversion to give the mind a break from considering the stuff that "really matters", like, you know, that the planet is about to "fucking boil"?

There is small but real negative magic in writing of this kind. The endless repetition of the phrase "the modern man" makes that construction, annoying enough to begin with, feel like death itself. It makes you want to take out your granddaddy's old shotgun, an object of purely camp value to these ghouls, next time you see the word "spouse".

It is interesting to note that even though there are seemingly many details and specific notations in this article, not one of them adheres to the mind; not one feels observed or drawn from life. So many brand names are mentioned -- Kenneth Cole, Mountain Dew etc -- and they all feel like they might as well be nonsense words written in the language of another planet. That is what I mean by "negative magic": this kind of text actually has a little power (very little, for sure) but the only thing that power does is evacuate language, and life, of all joy, interest, and purpose.

Doesn't sound like much fun, does it? But that is what happens -- has happened -- to minds that are settled in their utter and taken for granted conviction of "meaninglessness". They have lost the world, and that death-in-life of the spirit is what seeps into every part of the text they generate.

Post: #44

1) ) If the Modern man has to get a gift - he goes for Lingerie or at least chocolates. Bitch buy your own shoes.

2) 2 is acceptable.

3) Why should a modern man be considerate in an inconsiderate world...Leo Tolstoy wrote a giant-ass novel where he wrestles with this problem, which from what I gather is quite far above the reading level of these people (I've read it three times).

4) I agree with 4 - but like I give a fuck what some guy does with his steak.

5) Park where you can park, lines are for pussies. The real modern man gives zero fucks if he's 'in the lines'.

6) Why is it the job of the modern man to do something so easy for his family? It's plugging in a phone, not taking down a deer at 150 yards with a crossbow, for fucks sake...my wife wants to look for new dick on Ashley Madison, my teenage daughter wants to attention whore on facebook and my son wants to talk about WoW on their phone? They can take three seconds to plug the joint in.

7) I only buy cola for mix. Help yourself to some apple juice, beer and coffee.

8) Why?

9) No it doesn't, because most women (yes, even your daughter) are trite, provincial, boring and all-too-happy to debase themselves for the right price - they aren't some sort of magical, mythical unicorn.

10) The modern man has a dishwasher - or a wife to do the dishes.

11) I don't know what this means - this modern man has been living his life and not learning the nuances and etiquette of Twitter.

12) I use body wash.

13) While amazing, relative to something like, say, Illmatic, Enter the Wu Tang has aged poorly (also - the idea of some suburban yuppie henpecked by his fat wife and disrespected by his kids bumping Bring Da Ruckus...There is some dissonance here). Acceptable Wu is limited to Enter the Wu Tang and some solo side gigs like Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Liquid Swords and Fishscale. Get a copy of Illmatic instead, if you don't already own it.

14) Trivial and meaningless....I also can basically memorize everything I need.

15) Ok I get the aesthetic appeal...but I fucking hate hardwood flooring. It's expensive, too cold in the winter, and do you like having to bust out the pledge to clean it once a month? I sure as shit don't.

16) I lie on the side most comfortable to me.

17) I bet you've balled more than a few melons in your day...

18) A shoehorn is like what, $20? Just do it.

19) Where I grew up in the country I could pick flowers...I'm much more fond of surprising my girls with a thorough midday banging out of the ether than flowers or shoes.

20) I almost NEVER sleep well with someone else in my bed (I slept poorly last night). Position matters for shit - I just want someone with good 'sleep etiquette' - IE someone who isn't constantly trying to chat with me or someone who doesn't change her position every 5 minutes.

21) I wouldn't scold for this either...but I'd tell her to mind her manners and not be a slob.

22) Like anyone born past 1960 I get all my news online.

23) Michael Mann has made two good movies - Heat and Collateral...but why own them when you can watch them free online?

24) Bullshit - sometimes I NEED my phone for business or directions. Always on charge.

25) I'd have mad guns if I lived in America...how can I protect my family without a gun if a situation arises?

26) You're a fag.

27) Agree somewhat - we should all be at least competent dancers.

==

Some legit shit in there, a bunch of shit which appears manly...then a bunch of pussy-ass faggy shit about buying your wife shoes, being pro-gun control and plugging in your kids phones when they should be doing that shit themselves...

Sauce is weak.

Post: #45

Not one of them is the modern man enjoying anything for himself, by himself. It's all buying his wife shoes and plugging in her phone for her for fucks sake. "Man" as seen by a modern fag/SJW.

Post: #46

What a bizarre piece of disjointed, puerile writing, and placed in the highest status mainstream media organ perhaps of all; how different is it from ROK shows how far reality is from the society's leadership we live under.

Post: #47

(10-02-2015 08:55 PM)GlobalMan Wrote:  Not one of them is the modern man enjoying anything for himself, by himself. It's all buying his wife shoes and plugging in her phone for her for fucks sake. "Man" as seen by a modern fag/SJW.

It's all about mindless consumerism and running around and doing things that would normally be taken care of by a maid/servant in the developing world.

That's what it boils down to really..the most well "respected" news rag of the mainstream liberal left thinks of men as no more than walking atms who sometimes fulfill maid duties.

Post: #48

28. The modern man would have stopped reading this article after reading number 1.

Post: #49

Going to add to the discussion too.

1. When the modern man buys shoes for his spouse, he doesn’t have to ask her sister for the size. And he knows which brands run big or small.

-- Buy your own shoes, they are already expensive like that.

2. The modern man never lets other people know when his confidence has sunk. He acts as if everything is going swimmingly until it is.

-- This one is good.

3. The modern man is considerate. At the movie theater, he won’t munch down a mouthful of popcorn during a quiet moment. He waits for some ruckus.

-- There are limits to be "considerate" in this world.

4. The modern man doesn’t cut the fatty or charred bits off his fillet. Every bite of steak is a privilege, and it all goes down the hatch.

-- Sounds good.

5. The modern man won’t blow 10 minutes of his life looking for the best parking spot. He finds a reasonable one and puts his car between the lines.

-- Go wherever there is space. In front of the door if you just need to go in a few minutes.

6. Before the modern man heads off to bed, he makes sure his spouse’s phone and his kids’ electronic devices are charging for the night.

-- Shouldn't they be able to figure it out by themselves?

7. The modern man buys only regular colas, like Coke or Dr Pepper. If you walk into his house looking for a Mountain Dew, he’ll show you the door.

-- The modern man doesn't buy any of this shit and knows how to feed good things to his family.

8. The modern man uses the proper names for things. For example, he’ll say “helicopter,” not “chopper” like some gauche simpleton.

-- No comment.

9. Having a daughter makes the modern man more of a complete person. He learns new stuff every day.

-- She won't teach you anything special, except perhaps a few game tricks that you already know.

10. The modern man makes sure the dishes on the rack have dried completely before putting them away.

-- A real man doesn't do the dishes at all. Let the girl do the dishes.

11. The modern man has never “pinned” a tweet, and he never will.

-- OK

12. The modern man checks the status of his Irish Spring bar before jumping in for a wash. Too small, it gets swapped out.

-- Huh?

13. The modern man listens to Wu-Tang at least once a week.

-- OK

14. The modern man still jots down his grocery list on a piece of scratch paper. The market is no place for his face to be buried in the phone.

-- The modern man just does whatever is convenient, or remembers the items. If you can't remember something, it probably wasn't important in the first place.

15. The modern man has hardwood flooring. His children can detect his mood from the stamp of his Kenneth Cole oxfords.

-- Just no.

16. The modern man lies on the side of the bed closer to the door. If an intruder gets in, he will try to fight him off, so that his wife has a chance to get away.

-- But will never own a gun? Hmmmmm.

17. Does the modern man have a melon baller? What do you think? How else would the cantaloupe, watermelon and honeydew he serves be so uniformly shaped?

-- Huh?

18. The modern man has thought seriously about buying a shoehorn.

-- All right.

19. The modern man buys fresh flowers more to surprise his wife than to say he is sorry.

-- The modern man doesn't buy flowers. He uses his brain to make a girl happy.

20. On occasion, the modern man is the little spoon. Some nights, when he is feeling down or vulnerable, he needs an emotional and physical shield.

-- That's what girlfriends are for.

21. The modern man doesn’t scold his daughter when she sneezes while eating an apple doughnut, even if the pieces fly everywhere.

-- The modern man doesn't make her daughter become a pig.

22. The modern man still ambles half-naked down his driveway each morning to scoop up a crisp newspaper.

-- The modern man reads news online and doesn't need a newspaper.

23. The modern man has all of Michael Mann’s films on Blu-ray (or whatever the highest quality thing is at the time).

-- Hmmmm..

24. The modern man doesn’t get hung up on his phone’s battery percentage. If it needs to run flat, so be it.

-- The modern man will care about his business and carry a power bank. The writer must be poor.

25. The modern man has no use for a gun. He doesn’t own one, and he never will.

-- Read #16.

26. The modern man cries. He cries often.

-- The modern man is not a fag and doesn't take shit from girls.

27. People aren’t sure if the modern man is a good dancer or not. That is, until the D.J. plays his jam and he goes out there and puts on a clinic.

-- Yes.

Post: #50

I didn't hold out much hope when i saw a mainstream news article title attached. We should strive not only to block out the influences of sinister news agencies like this, but to be more like men from the past, real men, like rubirosa or marlon brando in streetcar named desire, not a 'modern man'.