Is a Mitchum Man a Real Man?

I saw an advertisement today that said (more or less):

"If you've rescheduled your anniversary around poker night, you're a Mitchum Man"

Then I found this site.

Is THIS what it means to be a real man? Certainly not what women want... Do they?

I don't even really find this site funny... At least the Coors Light commercials are funny. There's a sort of seriousness here that appalls / offends me.

Also, I notice a link labelled "Not a Man -- Click here!", which takes you to Mitchum for Women products. Would any woman want to be a "Mitchum Woman" after seeing this?

I've heard someone refer to a man's "inner pirate". I think we can apply this idea here and to Francis Osbaldistone in Rob Roy.

Possible Alternate header graphic? Or atleast a theme to work on:

Real Men's "Rules"

I want to distance myself from this post a bit by saying that I was sent this proposed set of rules (you need MS Powerpoint to run it) by email today and it seemed a little too coincidental not to post it.

While the Rules that we looked at on Monday may have been put forth by a man or a woman, I think you will agree the men's rules were most certainly written by a man... quite possibly this man.

The women's rules seem to assert omnipotent power over their partners, while the men's rules attempt to exempt men from the annoying things that women allegedly do. Do women feel that they have to "train" their men to be more obedient, polite, presentable, sensitive (i.e. less manly)? Do men find that they are always looking for creative (or otherwise) ways to avoid said training / punishment?

Comperative Genres - Courtesy of Dr. Stephen

It's been universally known for a good while that Science Fiction and to a
lesser extent Fantasy is a fairly Real Men literary market. Amid cries of
evolving reading styles and reminders that the initial novelists were women
writing for women, let's take a look at the two premiere reading subgroups.

Science Fiction & Fantasy:


And Romance:



Have we found a case where size, if not quite mattering, is
indicative of something still?

Real men don't blog, but do they write chick lit?

When looking about the net looking for things to post, I looked up the terms lad lit/dick lit. To my supprise the titles that came up were not uber-male tales of war and fighting, but books about imperfect males and their sexual and emotional inadequacies when it came to relationships. If this is true, then what is the difference between chick lit and lad lit? The most interesting article I found was by author Steve Almond, a lad lit/dick lit author who had no idea he was one. When he asked an audience at a literary panel exactly what the term ment, he was told that it was "books in which the male narrator explores his feelings about his romantic life". According to this definition, are any of the books we are reading "lad lit"? If the model author of lad lit is Hornby, and not Amis, is this writing intended for real men, or is it just chick-lit writen by male authors? Do 'real men' write chick lit?
The article can be found at mobylives.com here.
(dick lit is the American term and lad lit is the English term)

Impossible Squad

Ruben Bolling concisely displays some of the many common themes found in "men's literature / cinema" in this installment of his Tom the Dancing Bug weekly comic strip.

Real Men Don't Need First Posts

See?