{"id":21135,"date":"2015-05-22T12:56:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T19:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21135"},"modified":"2015-05-22T12:56:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T19:56:22","slug":"friday-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/22\/friday-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

And some cool custom knives<\/strong> (below)<\/p>\n

My ankle was feeling good enough this morning that the boot was actually more of a nuisance than the break.<\/p>\n

Got Ava back from Furrydoc’s kennels. ‘Bout the second thing she did was body-slam herself right into that leg.<\/p>\n

How did I end up with such a lunatic dog? She was amusing when she was a year or two or five years old. But she turns 10 this fall. Why can’t she just sleep a lot like a good<\/i> senior dog?<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

MJR, who sent this article<\/a> decrying the current trend in “loud manliness,” said he was sorry it wasn’t more inclusive of women.<\/p>\n

Actually, I think it’s perhaps more inclusive of us than we need it to be. Enough — and often too much — has been said about the rights, privileges, strengths, and demands of women. We’re equal now, and frequently ahead, in vast fields of endeavor. What’s left to achieve is detail. Yet now we’re innundated with ignoble, attention-seeking whines about how women are all victims of a mythical, male-blighted “rape culture.” Faugh! I’m embarrassed for the decent people of my sex.<\/p>\n

I’m much more concerned with what’s being done to boys in increasingly female-dominated institutions. And how men of the future will manage to remain strong, vital, useful, self-respecting men. I’m horrified that boys and young men are being subjected to such toxic views of who and what they are. This toxic reversal is worse for male well-being than the stupid “sugar-and-spice, behave like a lady, submit, and be sure to be lousy at math” line was for us girls who grew up in the not-so-distant dark ages.<\/p>\n

I don’t agree with the author of the linked article that manhood was easy and automatic in the past. I recall how often men had to struggle or even fake some faux ideal of manhood. And hey, it was guys who got drafted, guys who got stuck with a ton of dirty work. Manhood has never been easy. But I surely do agree that real manhood — and real womanhood for that matter — essentially consists of girding the loins and getting on with life.<\/p>\n

\/rant<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Ahem. Now go check out the cool custom Kershaw knives<\/a> just arrived in the TZP store. These are Ken Onion-designed spring-assist folders and sharp tools in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And some cool custom knives (below) My ankle was feeling good enough this morning that the boot was actually more of a nuisance than the break. Got Ava back from Furrydoc’s kennels. ‘Bout the second thing she did was body-slam herself right into that leg. How did I end up with such a lunatic dog? She was amusing when she was a year or two or five years old. But she turns 10 this fall. Why can’t she just sleep a lot like a good senior dog? —— MJR, who sent this article decrying the current trend in “loud manliness,”…<\/p>\n

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