Masks Off - A Challenge to Men

[seabeyond]

i have been asking men for years.... for only this. only... this. and how I am rejected because of that mask. this, is an awesome man.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Kicked and recommended!

[trof]

2. and again

[Demo_Chris]

3. I wanted to like it, but...

It didn't speak to me -- far too proselytizing and prosey to be good poetry. It failed to paint any pictures in my mind beyond that of some faceless angst-poet, no doubt in a Starbucks and typing on an Apple, staining to craft rhymes out of the statistics he picked up in his first women's studies class. That's not really a good start for a poem. Setting it to a music video doesn't save it.

As for the video...

hammy acting by a fabulously Takei miscast thespian, saccharine piano, the slowly twirling camera and lens flair that would make JJ Abrams shiver, and the end result can only be described as pretentious and painful. When they called this mess, "A Challenge to Men" they missed warning half their audience.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. maybe you will like this better ...

A Concerned Mother’s Letter to Teenage Girls
After seeing pictures of her sons’ friends online and being shocked by how provocative they were, one mother wrote a wise letter to all teenage girls online. Read her original post below:

Dear girls,
I have some information that might interest you. Last night, as we sometimes do, our family sat around the dining-room table and looked through the summer’s social media photos.
We have teenage sons, and so naturally there are quite a few pictures of you lovely ladies to wade through. Wow – you sure took a bunch of selfies in your skimpy pj’s this summer! Your bedrooms are so cute! Our eight-year-old daughter brought this to our attention, because with three older brothers who have rooms that smell like stinky cheese, she notices girly details like that.

I think the boys notice other things. For one, it appears that you are not wearing a bra.

I get it – you’re in your room, so you’re heading to bed, right? But then I can’t help but notice the red carpet pose, the extra-arched back, and the sultry pout. What’s up? None of these positions is one I naturally assume before sleep, this I know.

So, here’s the bit that I think is important for you to realize. If you are friends with a Hall boy on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, then you are friends with the whole Hall family.

Please know that we genuinely like staying connected with you this way! We enjoy seeing things through your unique and colorful lens – you are insightful, and often very, very funny.


more at link:
http://www.viralnova.com/a-concerned-mothers-letter/

[Demo_Chris]

5. No, I'm afraid not. nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. yeah, not surprised.

[Demo_Chris]

7. Oh? I am surprised that you like the second...

Apparently this woman believes that once her boys see a girl as a sexual object they are then incapable of viewing her otherwise or exercising any sort of self control, and it is therefore the girl's responsibility to avoid this possibility. I could not disagree with this nonsense more. Instead of trying to change the world to conform to her ideas on morality, she should try talking to her own kids. Clearly she has a great deal she needs to talk to them about.

Actually, forget that. She is the LAST person I want talking to her boys.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. did I say that I liked it? NO. I just said that I am not surprised that you didn't.

DO NOT PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH.

[tblue]

11. He didn't have to do it.

I applaud anything that points us in the right direction. It may well speak to someone who needs to hear it, even if it doesn't to you.

[passiveporcupine]

14. Or you could take your mask off

and realize you have a softer side...and it's OK.

[Ace Acme]

9. Have you considered moving to a part of the world where men are less confused? nt

[Triana]

12. Name one.

I don't think it exists.

[Ace Acme]

13. Anyplace off the plains, I believe.

Last edited Fri Dec 6, 2013, 05:41 PM - Edit history (1)

My experience with, and sense of, the plains is that the people there have largely lost their sense of mission, and thus the men must invent macho and often violent fantasies to get any sense that their lives are significant. It's the "What's the Matter With Kansas" syndrome.

Of course, I haven't been there in about ten years. Things may have changed.

[tblue]

10. Oh yeah. Love this! nt