When She Needs You To Man Up

Why? Because if you won't, someone else will. At some point during the mid-1970s, we started to pretend to believe that women wanted a new sort of man -- a nurturing sort who was so "comfortable in his masculinity" that he would do things like discuss his belief that people don't appreciate him, or weep in movie theaters.

This was, of course, a total fabrication. Men and women are what they are and have always been, and while a woman may say she requires the sensitive, in-touch-with-himself type, that's better regarded as a tactic than a belief. It's part of the dance. Don't believe us? Try this: Next time some barroom oaf hurls a selection of uncouth words her way, perhaps you could start weeping at the injustice of it all, and for man's inhumanity to man. We guarantee you will very quickly be doing so alone. Here's when (and why) she needs you to man up. Invite your friends to join