Men -think it through

men not accustomed to getting their fingernails bloody, or at least dirty, can hardly be expected to remain manly. Indeed this, more than any other factor, has softened men’s hands and feminized their behavior. Though it’s fashionable among conservatives today to blame feminism for creating metrosexuals, the truth is sissified males aren’t the result of women donning suits and toting briefcases. Males don’t get manicures, have highlights put in their hair, and have their eyebrows plucked because a woman has the corner office. No, the cause is a lack of concrete connection to the earth. Just travel to any third-world country where men still have to till the earth with their hands and hunt to fill the pot, and look around and see if you can find a “girlyman” admiring his reflection in a stream like Narcissus and wishing he had a fuller-bodied shampoo. Such men don’t exist far off the pavement. So the domesticated man asks, does shooting a pheasant really give an understanding of nature? Not necessarily. But really studying pheasant hunting, learning where the birds move and feed and hide, is necessary to becoming a good hunter, and it’s those things that connect a man to nature and his place within it. The reality is that being environmentally responsible is manly when it’s based on reality—a reality in which we are an active participant—and not on emotional idealism. Men, after all, are supposed to be the rational ones.

Miniter, Frank (2009-04-14). The Ultimate Man's Survival Guide: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Manhood (Kindle Locations 886-896). Perseus Books Group. Kindle Edition.