tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475153462473971892.post5023307094090311617..comments2023-09-25T11:33:21.311-04:00Comments on Smells Like Borscht: Decline of the state of "Man" - Part TwoBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06076277852228148825noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475153462473971892.post-60959551150174596732011-05-21T04:33:12.945-04:002011-05-21T04:33:12.945-04:00Nice to find your blog via the lovely Polish Mama ...Nice to find your blog via the lovely Polish Mama on the Prairie. <br /><br />I live in London, where folks can only ever hope to afford a 'man broom closet' if they are lucky...cave sounds lavish :)Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04868311511462835246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475153462473971892.post-64230849627534558612011-05-20T20:48:44.061-04:002011-05-20T20:48:44.061-04:00My research on this subject involves watching an i...My research on this subject involves watching an inordinate number of House Hunters (both regular and "International") along with a host of other HGTV shows...<br /><br />Almost universally, the guy seeking a man cave sports a silly grin and and even sillier belt (don't know why. just reporting the facts).<br /><br />Man Cave Seeker is also generally accompanied by a woman cooing about her future scrap booking room. In other words, they're pretty much made for each other.<br /><br />I love those shows.<br /><br />They make me sick when I compare the price of real estate elsewhere to what we spend in California, but also blissful that our home doesn't have a cave or a craft nook in sight. <br /><br />That is all.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15244839430462103487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475153462473971892.post-58911410612085006102011-05-20T09:21:23.742-04:002011-05-20T09:21:23.742-04:00I recently saw an ad for something called the &quo...I recently saw an ad for something called the "Mom Cave": http://www.homegoods.com/momcave.asp<br /><br />Terrible, right? <br /><br />I'm all for having your own space. I think two people in a house need it. But why masculinize or feminize it instead of "you"-izing it? I think there are two things going on here: the first is the comment I left yesterday, about social conditioning, and the second is that we consider men "weaker" today than before, which is why some feel they need to compensate. Is it true for all men? No. But before, men were expected to do a lot more: build things, burn things, fix things, etc, the way women were expected to do more: sew, cook from scratch, laundry by hand, etc. <br /><br /> Now , both men and women in Western societies sit at computers all day and can't do other tasks. This has hit some men very hard, to the point where they've felt the need to start sites like this: http://artofmanliness.com/ (read it and get back to me on how crazy it is) and, similarly, construct man caves, to assert how masculine they are. <br /><br />Not saying there's anything inherently wrong with man caves...except the fact that I've typed mancaves enough now to also think of it as unfortunate anatomy.VickiBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17733439281730830352noreply@blogger.com