on the man

All my (American) femmy blog favourites have had some coverage on the (Canadian) Walrus blog by Edward Keen, “Act Like A Man”. Although not put in so many words, Eddie is basically wondering why it is such a big deal to expect men to take pride in being responsible, capable human beings. He uses UFC and facial hair to colour his pallid analyses, but it comes down to questioning why males resist employment and moving out of their parents’ homes, and what the hell happened to courage and integrity and plain old talent. It’s cute enough, overdue to say the least. We’ve been in a static wait for the self-aggrandized GI-Joe-playing Bush to Act Like A Man and apologize for a hysterically manic spending spree of the entire American economy and hundreds of thousands of lives on a losing war. Our own childish and slovenly national leader is no better in The Man department, greedily hoarding power in areas he has no talent for or jurisdiction over. Hillier, now stepping down in a rare state of sustained honour, was one of few who had the cajones to stick up to our rolly-polly creepy-eyed PM, and that was in the unfortunate context of amplifying our military might. We recall when Linda Keen flared her testicles in the fight of nuclear safety, she was promptly canned. That doesn’t mean I didn’t join a cheerleading squad with her initials stitched across my breasts.

Which brings me back to the other Keen’s blog, and Acting Like A Man, a critical response thus far to his blogging. To which I say, "Of course you don’t have to actually be chromosonely masculine to take action against impotence!" And I am not likely to worry about “Acting Like A Man” being unnecessarily gender-loaded vernacular for Grow Up. It’s the dude’s blog, he can call it what he wants and I’ll take the same liberty. I hope it catches on, though, this responsibility and integrity thing.