I'm not a brave man by any measure but I take my job of husband and protector seriously even if I'm scared shiteless. At my first house there lived a bunch of cholos that caused a lot of misery for the neighborhood. One night I heard their whistle as this was their way of communicating. I went outside with a pipe under my jacket sleeve in case I had to protect myself. I could see them across the street and all they did was just stare. I know that they were the ones who had stolen my italian cypresses and a wheel barrow but I had no proof. I stayed out there for awhile but nothing happened.

Needless to say I finally moved to a better neighborhood and knowing that eventually the thief gets his due that's what I'm hoping for. I've gone outside at other times and have checked the back yard when I've heard noises. My only protection isn't a gun but a good iron bar. Hopefully I never meet up with the fiend with the gun. LOL

My neighbor says he sends him wife to check. LOL

Four things come to mind in general terms:

1) They pursue, date, cohabit, marry, etc., liberal women.
2) They believe the lie that they should feel guilty as a male in a male-dominated, privileged world and become trapped in undesired roles with pent up anger and resentment that often manifests itself in championing "causes." I'd say this is particualrly true for white males.
3) They spend more time trying to please and not offend others to the point they lose their sense of uniqueness of self-image - loss of personal freedom.
4) The King of Kings is not first in the pecking order of daily living - not just a casual belief but an actual practice of actions. If you really want to know what it means to be a man then read the Scriptures.

(11-06-2017 02:27 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  I will admit to this in some way. I am in fact a know it all. It's a character flaw I know. I do however try and contribute to the discussion.


I'm not going to embrace it because while I may sometimes do the things mentioned here, I'm not doing it in any way to disrupt, attack or upset anyone personally.

Fit, I think you and I are a lot alike.

(11-06-2017 06:15 PM)ODUsmitty Wrote:  

(11-06-2017 06:07 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(11-06-2017 12:36 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  What if I am a liberal man but I married a conservative woman?

You like being dominated.

Sometimes you are the dog. Sometimes you are the fire hydrant. In this case, you are always the hydrant.

(11-06-2017 06:58 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  This idea and further related reading really helped me define better who I was, and wanted to be:

Wolves are bad guys.
Most people are sheep.
Sheepdogs are society’s protectors.

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/05/14...-sheepdog/

I encourage everyone to read this and any follow-up reading as needed. I am serious when I say this article was a truly defining moment of my life. I am proud to humblebrag that since reading an article about wolves, sheep and sheepdogs (maybe around 2010? Not this article, this is simply the most succinct) I have twice been in a sheep/sheepdog/wolves situation.

It was late one night, very late, and I was asleep when I heard an impossibly loud bang. My first instinct was that someone had broken in our front door and I grabbed my "appropriate response" and quickly went downstairs, meaning whoever was inside had to go through me to get upstairs to the wife and kids.

Thankfully, it wasn't my house. I looked outside and saw a green car smashed into a tree at the end of my block, smoking from the radiator and the airbag explosion. (that is what made that ridiculously loud bang.) I put aside my appropriate response and raced to the car to see what I could do to help - there was no one else around, and no lights on at the neighbors that I could see. After 10 seconds or so I saw a guy walking up my street clearly hurt so I ran to him and told him to stop and lay down as I had called the the police. Once I said "police" to him I smelled the alcohol and he took a swing at me - and missed. More his inbalance than any lightning quick ninja skill on my part.

Next he swore up and down to me that he knows where I live and he'll come back and kill me. By this time two other neighbors showed up and I told them both to stay back as this guy was dangerous and drunk. I continued to follow him around at a distance of 10 yards or so while on a cell phone with the police borrowed from one of the neighbors. Police got there, arrested him, and I later learned he had warrants for assault and other DWI.

I had to testify against him in court and face his pissed off family in the hall with further whispered threats. The police crash scene investigated testified that in his opinion the driver was going in excess of 70 miles an hour when he hit the tree, and the arresting officer showed a .bac of 1.8. Drunk, mean, pissed off wolf going 70 miles an hour on a residential city street.

Any way, as is probably always the case, this guy went to jail and I never heard or saw him or any of the family again.

Listen, the point of this story is not to brag. I imagine many of you have been through worse. The point of the story is that went presented with danger I ran towards it, not away. Is that more stupid than holing up in my bedroom cowering under a bed? Probably. That's what a lot of my (liberal city) friends say they do when confronted in those type of situations (YMMV with your group of liberal city friends.)

But I learned that night that I am a sheepdog.

How sexist! Seriously though, if liberals and feminists have their way they will continue emasculating our boys until there are no sheepdogs. I've had many occasions to exercise my inner sheepdog and know that even as I age I'll continue doing so. I'm not trying to brag, I just know who I am and how I react to dangerous, stressful or traumatic events.