“Tough Guise” – A Reflection [Old Content]Comments on:

By: Kyle Brady

Kyle Brady — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:20:20 +0000

Thanks for the insight, Roy.

I really appreciate such deep thoughts.

–Kyle

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:18:47 +0000

this essay is stupid.

By: Kyle Brady

Kyle Brady — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:42:40 +0000

Yeah, I tend to use quotes as emphasis or an intentional misuse of words, than actually quoting. But if I'm citing a source, and it's on here, I tend to transcribe the actual quote into fully-linked text.

I'm complicated, I know.

No, I haven't read that, but I've heard of it. It actually came up in the same class ("Stress Management"... it stresses me out) as a good example of how we can "become what we want to be".

I'm not sure I'd enjoy it though. I'm more of a fiction+SciFi/Fantasy kind of guy!

--Kyle

By: Kyle Brady

Kyle Brady — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:42:40 +0000

By: RT Wolf

RT Wolf — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:48:35 +0000

Oh I see, you wrote the quoted piece. Good. Yea, the Tough Guise is ridiculous.

Have you ever read Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent? Vincent pretended to be a man for 18 months and it's a fascinating read about manhood from a different perspective.

By: RT Wolf

RT Wolf — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:48:35 +0000

Oh I see, you wrote the quoted piece. Good. Yea, the Tough Guise is ridiculous.

Have you ever read Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent? Vincent pretended to be a man for 18 months and it's a fascinating read about manhood from a different perspective.

By: Kyle Brady

Kyle Brady — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:36:23 +0000

Hi RT,

I'm not sure what you mean by "quoted thing", but I meant to link directly to a source of the original material. Here's a link to a few minutes of the video, since Wikipedia doesn't have any article on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3exzMPT4nGI

This was a simple reflection, so I didn't do any "actual" research, and didn't want to delve into things that would piss my professor off even more, since this already was going to. But I'll take a look at the Pinker bit, thanks.

--Kyle

By: Kyle Brady

Kyle Brady — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:36:23 +0000

By: RT Wolf

RT Wolf — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:09:47 +0000

Where is the quoted thing from? I like the gist of it though I disagree with some points of it. If you're interested in a pathological man who grew up emasculated, check out Crumb.

I should point out that murders and most types of violent crimes have gone down dramatically in the last long while. On the scale of centuries, for example.

Steven Pinker talks about the myth of violence here, the idea that pre-civilization people were noble and pacifists:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_pinke...

By: RT Wolf

RT Wolf — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:09:47 +0000

Where is the quoted thing from? I like the gist of it though I disagree with some points of it. If you're interested in a pathological man who grew up emasculated, check out Crumb.

I should point out that murders and most types of violent crimes have gone down dramatically in the last long while. On the scale of centuries, for example.

Steven Pinker talks about the myth of violence here, the idea that pre-civilization people were noble and pacifists:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_pinke...