Comments on: What does it mean to be a man?

By: Darren

Darren — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:23:42 +0000

We’ll never learn will we? Men and women are desperate to be told what to do, wear and think, where to go, how to speak and what to care about. As a society we seem to crave this, with “old fashioned values” adopted by marketers aiming at men, politicians and churches and “skin deep values” embraced by those targeting women. When we tell our teens to be individuals, in an ad read by masses, and tell our men to wear the pants, we do so safe in the knowledge that none of them can, they are just media junkies…

By: antfarm

antfarm — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:23:28 +0000

Hey! Men have been screwed over by the marketing machine for at least as long as women have!
But my thought on that capital-lettered man-ifesto is that revolution-talk is big right now in the US. The right is all about ‘taking back’ and ‘defending liberty’ and so on. Since the election, ammunition sales in Texas have (wtf,) exploded. A distinct sense of growing disenfranchisement, I guess, for a significant number of people. And Dockers evidently know which side THEIR bread is butt-ered on…

By: ian shaw

ian shaw — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:52:52 +0000

Real men should ignore such stupid efforts to prescribe for them as to what it means to be a man.

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:07:15 +0000

Whatever it means on an essentialist level, I certainly don’t think being “a man” involves deriving one’s identity from marketing screeds.

By: Billy C

Billy C — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:18:52 +0000

I stand in my all male saffer two tone shirt, khaki shorts
and veldt skoens, feeling totally mortified and wedgied by such naff male condescending stereotypes.

I always associated Dockers with those slinky leather moccasin slip-ons worn with chinos as part of a Cape Cod uniform; for the understatedly rich and famous elite

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By: david

david — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:18:09 +0000

What are chino’s? Sounds like something metrosexuals and men in touch with their feminine side would wear.

By: Po

Po — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:28:45 +0000

Hmm, in the eyes of a total non-expert, that campaign is the lamest thing I have ever heard of. Which is why I am sure people will love it.

By: sirjay jonson

sirjay jonson — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:28:38 +0000

Its a challenge to us men. Methinks it portends a new era.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:09:26 +0000

Interesting post Sarah, but I believe it is the English who claimed the word ‘pants’ to describe something rubbish…guess the Australians, like most things English just borrowed it…

ie: Your blog is pants…