Age: mid-forties

Hometown: unknown.

Died: November 24, 1971

Unit: none

Incident: Given that DB Cooper showed his lack of skydiving experience by choosing a dummy parachute from those he had been given, it is unlikely he survived his attempt to parachute from a hijacked airliner. Dan Savage has shown no remorse for the death of DB Cooper.

but the view of "manly" man doesn't attach from one photo op or video... there has to be a pattern established.

Also, I didn't realize bowling scores were tiered on a "manliness" scale. Christ, everything is politicized with these gasbags. Why do Mathews or Scarborough still have jobs?

Men need to do the same thing, or any guy or boy who isn't a burly man or interested in burly man things will always be labelled effeminate--which shouldn't be seen as a negative either. But still, you know. Right?

Also, I'd like to see Matthews bowl. He probably bowls like a girl.

I dont see them running mccains crippled old man sports statistics. This is jy=ust to perpetuate the sterotype (fact?) that democrats are more effeminate then republicans...like anyone who actualy cared would vote for the "girly party" anyway

and this gets very ethnic, but the fact that he’s good at basketball doesn’t surprise anybody

You look at a quote like this, and leap first to the sexism?

Sexism against women is the symptom of a larger problem: our (still largely male-dominated) society has an extremely unhealthy idea of what it means to be a man. Men won't stop oppressing women until they stop oppressing themselves.

Manly is hunting, fishing, shooting*, riding bulls, woodworking, auto repair, etc.

*shooting dogs with arrows is not manly. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nicolebrodeur/2004318857_brodeur01m.html

**Unless they are pit bulls. Then you are a wise, brave humanitarian.

I do not get why everyone tries to make every single ECB post about her supporting Clinton. These guys are clearly morons having a moronic conversation about how Obama isn't manly enough, and I think it's ridiculous to assume that the post is about anything other than that.

Though, I agree with tsm that the basketball comment is bullshit too.

women egg it on..weather they want to admit it or not

But I wince every time I see a mother tell her son to be a man and not cry or whatever.

I suppose the bald and fat segment *is* quite large. Baldness is out of one's control, of course, but getting fat is pretty much a sign that you're getting soft and lazy, ie not manly. Don't these people watch Battlestar Galactica?

Thank God for the internet...if only we could get those poor dumb saps in Park Slope, Appalacian Pennsylvania and Kentucky to use it once in a while.

The media is filled with chubby, insecure men, and that will be the bar for masculine for the time being.

I learned in highschoolt that the meaner,nastyer and agreesever you are and the more people you abuse the more sex you get

Reagan drinking beer out of a mug? Mugs are for pussies. Real men drink out of bottles and cans.

So, in other words, everything you wrote in comment #45 was a complete fabrication. Color me shocked.

A. anyone who's NOT a bowler normally is going to do great in front of hundreds of people watching.

B. a score of 200 doesn't make you a decent bowler, it' makes you a fucking kick ass bowler. In order to get 200 you basically have to get a strike or a spare every frame. I challange Matthews or Scarborough to see what they get. I bet they don't break 100.

C. I'd also like to see Matthews or Scarborough go one on one with Obama on the court and see who the man is.

Fucktards! Sure, no woman, no black man... let's elect the guy who couldn't even escape from a war prison. What a pussy.