"If two men walk together one better be carrying a ball." The Man Date

[Democrats_win]

Someone ought to send this New York Times article to Bush on what a Man Date really is:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/10/fashion/10date.html?

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...Anyone who finds a date with a potential romantic partner to be a minefield of unspoken rules should consider the man date, a rendezvous between two straight men that is even more socially perilous.

Simply defined a man date is two heterosexual men socializing without the crutch of business or sports. It is two guys meeting for the kind of outing a straight man might reasonably arrange with a woman. Dining together across a table without the aid of a television is a man date; eating at a bar is not. Taking a walk in the park together is a man date; going for a jog is not. Attending the movie "Friday Night Lights" is a man date, but going to see the Jets play is definitely not.
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[saltpoint]

1. If two heterosexual males should happen to wish to spend --

-- time in each other's company, no matter the venue, then, unless at least one of them has a basketball or some other sports accoutrement, what choice is there but to assume they are gay lovers?

Jerry Falwell and Jim Dobson, I believe, are maintaining a list of such males and if any of you actually see this sort of thing going on, please report it to Jerry and Jim super-pronto. And don't be thrown off by the notion that any two human beings, no matter their sexual orientation, marriage status, etc., might be friends and wish to have the benefit of the other's company and conversation and support and insight & might logically welcome the nature of time spent well together in a social setting. Don't fall for THAT meme.

Drop a dime (ok -- 50 cents) on these dangerous deviants. Dr. Dobson's and Rev. Falwell's crack staffs will take it from there.

Let's stop friendship -- the demilitarized zone of acceptance of one by another despite human frailties & the honored valuation of self by another for the sheer human pleasure of affirming another human being -- let's stop it in its tracks!

So you straight folks, carry a basketball or git outta Dodge.

[MAlibdem]

2. I saw this article

I thought it was the most immature piece of crap I've read in a while.

And I go to a school with a Keg as the mascot.

[Technowitch]

3. Talk about being insecure...

Yeesh.

[Abelman]

4. Good Lord

I've had more dates with men than women! That might be okay for some fellows, but now me.

[Bouncy Ball]

5. ????

Is that for real?

My husband has gotten something to eat with a male friend before. They weren't sitting at a bar. But both of them are hetero.

What a weird article.

[asthmaticeog]

6. Attending a movie with another guy is a "man date?"

What if it's opening day of "Revenge of the Sith?"

This all reminds me of that one pinhead who got tombed for going on and on about the "fag chair," which was/is apparently an empty seat in a theater that tragically insecure straight guys leave inbetween them so as not to let any total strangers be under the misapprehension that they're a homosexual couple.
:wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf:

[BikeWriter]

7. I guess they'd freak out if they saw me hugging my Sons, Brothers...

Nephews, and male Friends, and I'm definitely hetero.

[redqueen]

8. A symptom of a sick, sick society.

Another one, I mean.