are most men like the man show?
POSTED BY: sanmi
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 02:45
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Originally posted by Meneluin:
The Man Show is an odd thing. While it has every right to exist, that doesn't hide the fact that it is disgusting and degrading on some level. What's even worse is what it can do to the mind of an impressionable person watching it. It's hard not to think you need to look/act a certain way after watching something like that.
Wow. I feel exactly the same way about the Oprah show.
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Me too... and Dr. Phil.
Sex with Sue is still the best show a girl could possibly watch. Not that I'm a girl lol!
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I had high hopes for the man show before it aired because I thought the original hosts were both pretty smart and funny on their own. I had hoped the thing would be satirical, at least a little bit. But no, it turned out to be this achohol soaked pitty-party for immasculated men who are frightened of real, intelegent women their own age, so they pay hookers or exotic dancers or Comedy Central to give them their effing superiority back (Oh, wait, Comedy Central is free, so that could explain its appeal right there).
It simply perpetuates some ugly myths like, "See, women really are dumb and compliant!" and "See, women really like to be objectified and humiliated, why just look at this one here whom we're paying to have mud spread over here lovely thonged buttocks!" It's just the Howard Stern Show with two Howards. Sure, there are some women who out of a funny kind of rebeliousness will "enjoy" the festivities because they aren't supposed to, but there are some women who date only imprisoned serial rapists, so what does that tell you?
As somebody up above said, it's not the Man Show, it's the Boy Show and even some boys want to have real relationships with real people. Hang in there. Life gets better.
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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Originally posted by Hero:
Wow. I feel exactly the same way about the Oprah show.
dude, oprah rocks!
~lissa, spwhore
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The thing about the man show to me is the second brain to guys. we have two brains the big brain and the little brain. when the big brain is doing the work we are pretty normal but when junior is in control we are pigs. no not all guys are like the guys on the man show. the man show is just one of our more extreme forms. we, for the most part dont focus on that stuff as much as is projected by shows and the media in general. we like to look at stuff like that but we dont love it and we certainly dont live for it. well most of us dont anyways.
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What you are doing is stereotyping. I myself am male, and seek a love relationship. (Which is ever elusive, driving me nuts, and depressing the hell out of me.) So for you to suggest that we are just machines driven by sex.. well, it's just wrong. So, in answer to your question, big damn NO!
Keep flying
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Sanmi, love is real! Don't worry!
Look at Zoe and Wash, they have such a deep love and respect for each other. They also love to make flippy floppy, but they love each other's minds and hearts as well.
And I'd go as far to say that the majority of mature men over the age of 17 are caring, reasonably intelligent and affectionte. True, we also hunger from time to time... (marry me Kaylee!) ... (be in my bedroom tonight obscure eccentric beautiful 1980's period artist songstress Kate Bush!) ... but we also think and feel deep thoughts. We're not all like Jayne! And look to Mozart, Van Gough, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck and Joss Whedon for evidence to the contrary.
And some men are gay, too. Not every man is a tits and ass man. (See Jack Keorac, Oscar Wilde...)
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^^^ I heard that brother. It's funny, getting a girl to perform esoteric sex acts with (on? In? Hm.) me on the first date (who am I kidding... it's some chick at a party) isn't nearly as hard as finding one who can actually talk.
Girls just want one thing. Where's the love gals?
And then they rush out of your flat promising to call. Hey, don't bother sweetie!
Oh... and Oprah is to women what the Man Show is to men: Stereo Type Reinforcement. Sorry spwhore, but Betty Friedan would be ashamed! 
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Well, I reckon you've got to consider the source.
That there "Man Show" thingie ... it's a show. I've never seen it, but I'm guessing the actors are actors, and the host is reading from a script.
Think about the funniest comedian you've ever seen. Somebody who always makes you laugh. He's got those jokes inside himself, see? And he can speak to you, and make you see the funny things that he sees.
But it's not "what he is". It's a piece of himself, but not the whole thing. He's not always happy, and he isn't always saying funny things all the time.
It's a show. You came to see him be funny, so he shows the funny part. Same thing with this Man Show: people are watching it to see these guys act this way, so that's what they do. It's only a little part of them, though. A show.
Human Beings (whether men or woman) are infinitely complex things, and they grow more and more complex each day. Don't worry; there's more to Men than a silly TV show ... just like there's more to women than talking on the phone and the color pink.
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These shows *are* meant to be funny, humorous, and definitely over-the-top satirical look at certain segments of the population. Not everything can be related to or understood by everyone.
For the folks who have seen "The Man Show" (I guess, for the folks who haven't as well), there are male and female audiences as well. Some women do find it funny, *and* we don't have to denigrate them just because those women find it funny - different people find different things to be funny or entertaining.
Everybody is a bit different, some people are completely all about pure "love", some people are completely "intellectual", some "passion", some "logic", some are a mixed of this and that. Some men are completely animalistically grunting and humping, slap-ass, burping, belching, farting, butt-pinching, crotch grabbing maniacs (As are some women ). Some are not... some only do it at the privacy of their own kingdom.
Me? I like my men just like my coffee: Black, full of cream, and flamin' hot!
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