{"id":2043,"date":"2013-04-08T08:32:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T13:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.wordpress.com\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2013-04-08T08:32:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T13:32:28","slug":"the-age-of-the-wuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/?p=2043","title":{"rendered":"The Age of the Wuss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds like a chapter from a fantasy adventure story, but it is actually a chapter out of modern history. Last night I died laughing, but was resurrected, by my male genetic code to survive this modern age, from watching comedian Don Friesen.\u00a0 He&#8217;s now my favorite comedian because he has observed the modern wussy world and is making a living from it.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a sample.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/youtu.be\/2S0R1iEvEQ0]<\/p>\n<p>All aboard the wuss train &#8211; wuss, wuss!\u00a0 I refuse to ride that train with shaved chest, legs, arms and groin, carrying my little man purse and looking modern in my man Capri.\u00a0 My daughter says that men like this are now called a hipster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/nerd-90s-hipster-2011-erkel.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2044\" alt=\"nerd-90s-hipster-2011-erkel\" src=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/nerd-90s-hipster-2011-erkel.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C183\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A hipster you say? If you go back to the 1970&#8217;s, my generation, they would have been called a wuss.\u00a0 Sorry, I know it is not politically correct, but I&#8217;m not a politician.\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny too, because when women post photos on Facebook or blogs you see something like the following photo below under a category called &#8220;Man Candy.&#8221;\u00a0 Now he might be wearing a leather kilt, but also notice the salivating women bidding on this &#8220;man.&#8221;\u00a0 How many of you ladies would bid on an Erkel or a Bieber?\u00a0 That&#8217;s what I thought.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/kilt2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2045\" alt=\"Kilt2\" src=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/kilt2.jpg?w=179&#038;resize=179%2C300\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I graduated high school in 1977.\u00a0 I was 6&#8217;1&#8243; and 135 pounds.\u00a0 I was not a man, I was a twig.\u00a0 If I turned sideways you couldn&#8217;t see me.\u00a0 I was the incredible disappearing twig wussy. See, I don&#8217;t even spare myself.\u00a0 So I took off on a quest to leave wussyville behind me &#8211; forever. One year later I put on 50 pounds of muscle and BAM &#8211;\u00a0 Quakers Instant Man!\u00a0 My love life went from zero and dead on arrival, to hero and gone in sixty seconds.\u00a0 I was going on a hunch that strong men survive the gene pool. The age of the wuss had ended.<\/p>\n<p>So ladies help me out here, tell me what you are really thinking?\u00a0 Here&#8217;s your choices &#8211; the sensitive, fashionable, video game addicted, completely shaven, hipster twig wuss of a man like slave substance, or<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/wuss.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2046\" alt=\"Wuss\" src=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/wuss.jpg?w=300&#038;resize=300%2C227\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A real man with hair and muscle, ready to lay down his life and rescue you from evil.\u00a0 With this hero, you&#8217;ll have to carry your own shopping bags.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/jamie_fraser.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2047\" alt=\"Jamie_Fraser\" src=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/jamie_fraser.jpg?w=195&#038;resize=195%2C300\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I know the answer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/men-in-kilts.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2048\" alt=\"Men in kilts\" src=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/men-in-kilts.jpg?resize=259%2C194\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yup, I was right the first time. The wuss train is leaving, the man candy wagon is boarding. ALL ABOARD!<\/p>\n<p>Man up men!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds like a chapter from a fantasy adventure story, but it is actually a chapter out of modern history. Last night I died laughing, but was resurrected, by my male genetic code to survive this modern age, from watching comedian Don Friesen.\u00a0 He&#8217;s now my favorite comedian because he has observed the modern wussy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[289,375,432,456,623,646,722,783,784,786,810,1097,1254,1350,1355],"class_list":{"0":"post-2043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-man-club","7":"tag-comedy","8":"tag-don-friesen","9":"tag-ew-greenlee","10":"tag-fashion","11":"tag-hipster","12":"tag-humor","13":"tag-kilts","14":"tag-man","15":"tag-man-bags","16":"tag-man-candy","17":"tag-men","18":"tag-sex","19":"tag-trains","20":"tag-women","21":"tag-wuss","22":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}