Lifetime Man Card

[Westside]

putting your man card in jeopardy
-eating quiche
-wearing decorations on your ears
-make up of any kind
-texting until your fingers bleed
-squealing if you see a mouse or spider
-wearing a clip-on tie

securing your man card
-cutting your own firewood
-butchering your own livestock or game
-Properly wearing a kilt in public
-building a fire without matches

FIFY.

 

[BE Mike]

putting your man card in jeopardy
-eating quiche
-wearing decorations on your ears
-make up of any kind
-texting until your fingers bleed
-squealing if you see a mouse or spider
-wearing a clip-on tie

securing your man card
-cutting your own firewood
-butchering your own livestock or game
-wearing a kilt in public
-building a fire without matches

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL8raAmomRE&feature=related[/ame]

 

[Westside]

Also I refuse to vote in the poll as there is no bacon option.

 

[goinggreyfast]

By the way does your son-in-law fruit his beer? That would be a major deduction.

I bacon my beer.

 

[Shive.Justin]

i got distracted after reading oatmeal cookies.........i know what my wife will be making tonight. mmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[ATOMonkey]

As long as your apron is only from the waist down and is one solid color you're fine to bake.

Exclusions include full length aprons with funny sayings, or practical jokes hidden beneath.

 

[squirrelhntr]

putting your man card in jeopardy
-eating quiche
-wearing decorations on your ears
-make up of any kind
-texting until your fingers bleed
-squealing if you see a mouse or spider
-wearing a clip-on tie

securing your man card
-cutting your own firewood
-butchering your own livestock or game
-wearing a kilt in public over your wrangler blue jeans
-building a fire without matches

 

[marshallartist]

Bacon!

putting your man card in jeopardy
-eating quiche - Unless it contains bacon
-wearing decorations on your ears - Hey, a guy can play Pretty-Pretty-Princess with his 5-year old daughter!
-make up of any kind - War paint doesn't count
-texting until your fingers bleed
-squealing if you see a mouse or spider
-wearing a clip-on tie after the age of six
- Anything pertaining to "men's" figure skating

securing your man card
-cutting your own firewood
-butchering your own livestock or game
-wearing a kilt in public
-building a fire without matches

My objections and additions in [COLOR="blue" ]blue[/COLOR]

 

[Tebow]

I don't even use the phrase "man card" because I don't care what other people like to do.

 

[actaeon277]

You know, a man card can be revoked for bringing it up for the wrong reason. He ate your cookies. Unless you were wearing a leotard while making it, you can revoke his.

Its a new era. If a man can't cook, he may starve.

 

[Grizhicks]

but it's more fun to cook where there is fire and a chance of danger......

 

[JStarr]

Women and men can both do anything they want bake, sew, get a pedicure, ect. Now on the other hand when it comes to shaving your legs and paiting fingernails is where you draw the line. Your "man card" will be revoked and never given back.

 

[PriestEG]

as a man who lives on his own, if you dont know how to cook you go hungry!! and my dog sure aint gonna do the dishes or vacume the carpet so i gotta do it all. my man card has come into question alot with my buddies since im a student in nursing school.. but i remind them of my past profession and they fact that i can drink em under the table and still have the ability to fight em all off and the solidity of my man card returns

 

[2A_Tom]

If you depend on others to let you know if you are a man....... you are not.

 

[colt45er]

Honeslty I think the view is all wrong....seriously....

If your a man and:

Can't cook
can't sew
Can't sing your kids to sleep
Can't hold your daughter/wife/mother tight
Can't go out and NOT drink a beer
...enter accepted "manly" thing here

then maybe YOU should have your man card removed because you don't understand what it is to be a man.

PS, yes I Drink beer, quite often actually

 

[gungirl65]

I teach my 16 year old son how to do things in the kitchen and how to read nutrition labels. He even packs his own lunch for school now. I tell him he needs to learn these things so he doesn't have to get a GF just to eat when he gets older.

I show him manlier things too. Last week I showed him how to check the tire pressure and put air in the car tires.

 

[DanO]

Well said, Colt45er.

Unmanly behavior is often seen in the most outwardly "Macho" men. Unfortuntely, they may not have had role models for true manliness like I had in my father. Some examples I see often in Macho men:

Failing to defend the weak. Even if the weak are not likeable.
Lying about anything.
Abusing your position or power.
Complaining to anyone who is not in the specific business of handling complaints.
Feeling sorry for yourself for more than 60 seconds.
"I can't do it" or any words to that effect if something is difficult.

No one who has met me would even question if I had a "Man Card". But I sing to babies, will shed a tear in a poignant film, can cook, clean, do basic sewing on clothes and people, write in caligraphy, and honor my parents, wife and children.

There is so much to being a "real man" that our society gets wrong. My favorite book on the subject is "Wild at Heart". A lot of insight into what a man was created to be.

I have daughters and they know how to catch and clean game, take care of their vehicles, use power tools and fight empty hand or with tools. Being a competent human being with skills is not gender specific, as many posts here point out.

 

[teddy12b]

The times have changed in this country and for the better I think. I remember my grandma telling me a story about the first time my grandpa helped her clean dishes and he apparently had to close all the blinds in the house so that he wouldn't be embarassed by someone seeing him do that. I'm not trying to knock that type of behavior because it was a different time, but if anything I pity the guys from past generations because I think they missed out on a lot. Grandma was always amazed at how easy it was for me to just jump up and change my babies diaper when the wife would ask and just how different things were for her.

I enjoy all the joking about man cards and it's fun to rib each other, but I don't want to turn in the guy who takes it too seriously either. If my man card come into question I remind people about what my job was for uncle sam, how many years I studies martial arts, how many times I've gone bear hunting, and how often I go to the gun range. Just don't ask me to watch Father of the Bride with my little girl in my arms and everything will be ok, that's something I just can't do anymore.

 

[Mackey]

Are you kidding me? mancard?
A real man will do whatever the hell he wants and not give a damn about what someone else thinks about his manhood.



Is that a manly enough response?
BTW I am a much better cook than my wife.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Yeah, it's fun to pick at guys, in a light hearted manner, but my wife died when my son was four, so I've been the mom as well as the dad for 12 years now. I've done all kinds of cooking, including things like Indian and Chinese. I do the laundry. I run a sewing machine (I can make some righteous web straps). I have kalashnikitty on my GT Mustang. I'll eat quiche as long as it doesn't have broccoli in it; a real man doesn't gauge his actions by the opinion of some sissified author. I cut down trees with a chainsaw. I've replaced the engine on my lawn mower twice, as well as many other parts. There is almost no bolt I would hesitate to turn on any of my cars. I do electric, carpentry, plumbing. I'm an engineer and a chemist. Oh and look, I'm on a firearms forum! You want my man card? Molon Lave.