Art Of Manliness

Nike Art Growing up I always truly admired my own grandfather — William D. Hurst. A member of the “Greatest Generation,” a veteran of WWII, and a federal forester, he loved to tinker, be out in the wild, could fix almost anything, and was a s traight-shooting, thoroughly upright guy. He was  manly . A lot of my peers idealized their grandfathers too, and wanted to be more like them. But the gap between their generation and ours seemed huge. Many men today feel adrift and have lost the confidence, focus, skills, and virtues that men of the past embodied. In an increasingly androgynous society, modern men are confused about their role and what it means to be an honorable, well-rounded man.

Art of Manliness I’ve perused the website  a few times in the past year.  Something always vaguely turned me off about it, with its smug, woman-friendly, safe, feel- good presentation , and those feelings have recently hardened into outright hostility .  Simply put,  Art of Manliness  is neither artful nor manly.  It’s strictly a commercial site designed only to make money for its owners, and offers a neutered version of masculinity that would appeal only to pot-bellied, middle-aged keyboard jockeys.  These are the problems I have with the site.