I’ve been reading this blog for a few weeks. It’s called the Art of Manliness. It’s a good place to learn how to clean a gun, shine your shoes like a soldier, find a real barbershop, shave like your grandpa, and start a fire without matches. Today’s post is 10 Manly Feats of Strength.
Generally, I’ve been enjoying the site and find it primarily entertaining and also a strong antidote to today’s men who have an inordinate interest in things not pertaining to a man. Or as the country music song laments, “These days there’s dudes gettin’ facials, manicured, waxed and botoxed, with deep spray-on tans and creamy lotiony hands, you can’t grip a tackle box.” [Pardon me.]
At the same time, there should be a general warning about machoism and he-manism. These mindsets are not full of charity, deference, and Godwardness. The Scriptural pattern is that Christ showed his strength by His humility, not bravado.
The AoM website does not seem to me to take anything too far. They desire to be a blog about recovering the art of masculinity. Their About page says, in part, “The Art of Manliness is dedicated to helping men uncover what manliness means in the 21st century. What skills and knowledge should a 21st Century man acquire? What traits should they develop? In our search to uncover the lost art of manliness, we’ll look to the past to find examples of manliness in action. We’ll analyze the lives of great men who knew what it meant to “man up” and hopefully learn from them.”
I’ve said too much. Go enjoy the site, men.
