Calling All Neanderthals

On my Facebook "Newsfeed," I saw that a student of mine signed up to be a part of "National Man Day," which is just one of those silly things that someone, somewhere started for humor and entertainment. I decided to click on it and see what this was all about. This is what I read:

This day is the day for all men to stand up and say, "Yes, I am a Man." And "Yes, I will step up and do manly things and whatever I want to do on this glorious day!"

Come, make history! Be a part of National Man day. Take the world by the throat and tell them it's ok to watch Rocky movies all day. Tell them it's fine if you sit in your favorite chair and scratch yourself. Tell them it's normal to go shoot stuff or blow something up. Why? Because YOU ARE A MAN!!!

You aren't some nancy that likes to frolic in the fields, unless it's a field of mines and you have an AK47 and a hand full of grenades... Then you really are a man!

Yes on this day, men across the nation will be saying, "Screw you salad bar, with your salad and light dressings!" Men will step up and say, "I'll take that 20 oz steak, and yes, I'll eat it all. Because I'm a man!"

I'm not asking you to throw some sissy party, or to go buy a new power tie because you're a man. All I'm asking you to do is step up live this day like a man would. Blow something up, shoot some animal, punch your buddy in the face for no reason, be a good father, play football and literally knock someone's head off... Do something manly. Be a man like God intended you to be...

Take this day and celebrate your manhood!

Why do the vast majority of American men buy into the stereotype that has been created as to what a man is supposed to be like? If you ask me, that description is a description of a troglodyte.

I really hate the world we live in sometimes.

So it's "Free Communication" weekend at eHarmony. I still have a profile from ages ago, so I thought I'd pop in to see if anyone seems interesting, or if anyone wanted to chat with me. One woman who sent a message to me had this under her "Recently Read Books" category:

I read the "Twilight" series by Stephenie Meyer. It was all about a vampire that falls in love with a mortal. The thing that I liked most about the series was the romance. It's a romance that all women dream about but never seem to find in their own lives.

That's because it's fiction, and it's about the classic "badboy." It's horse-pucky, and if a woman expects me to sweep her off her feet like some eternally 17 year old vampire, well, I'm not interested.