I read that post last night, Dawn, and all I can say is amen to your take on it. Oh, and as for your last question, Sting said it best: "free, free, set them free" ;)

In response: thank you for the very nice characterization, I am not proud of my bad temper but I also think everyone should have a line that they should not allow to be crossed, Kim is a deranged asshole with a girl's name, I vote circumcision and my vote is weighted.

Eric, I recently bumbled across Kim's site, and he is of course all the rage right now. If you care to share your feelings with the group, why do you think he is a deranged arseport?

He thinks guns are manly. Though guns have their place for self-defense, especially for WOMEN, there is nothing remotely manly about them. They are devices. Kicking the shit out of assholes like him when if by chance I meet him - and he is welcome to visit me - is manly.

His disregard for women and heightened regard for the false veneer of "manliness" make me think he is a closet homosexual - nothing wrong with that, but own up to it, Roy Cohn.

I believe Kim would like to be sent to prison on a gun violation. That would be swell.

REAL manliness allows for a lack of pressing need to prove one's manliness. One can kick the ass of pansies such as Kim AND align one's behavior to maximize one's wife's happiness - not because we have to, but because we want to.

I have no use for "Queer Eye" but who gives a shit? Let it go.

i just despise puffed up little sacks of shit such as this pissant excuse for a buttplug. He gives men a bad name, which makes it that much harder to just be a person and get along in the world without having to prove one can have a strong sex drive and think women are tits without having to start humping their legs on the street.

In a civilization such as this fuckwad presents, impotent closet cases such as him would be eliminated for the good of the group, he would be "thinned" for the health of the herd. Thank God we don't live like that.

Oh yes, and I mention that I think he is gay?

Regardless of what his personae indicates in reality, or what it is meant to hide, it really makes things really hard for the rest of us. I mean I don't want to create some unbelievable image of myself because like everyone else I definitely have my flaws. BUT, I was raised to respect women, limit the language and content of conversation in front of them, appreciate women for what they have to say AS WELL AS what they look like.

Don't get me wrong, I love a beautiful woman, but it can go south very quickly if she doesn't have anything to say. For example last week, I was talking to a gorgeous woman in a bar, and it appeared as if it was going to go somewhere. We were all feeling good and then she dropped a bomb against a specific race casually in our conversation. At that point, even if she had offered to take me in the bathroom of the bar, it would have been a wet sponge.

Probably more than you wanted to know, but the kinds of guys who treat all women in certain ways make it so hard for the rest of us to prove that we aren't walking hard-on yes-men. Some of us are actually looking for something more.

thanks Craig, a little more tempered than my outburst, WHICH I MEANT EVERY FUCKING WORD OF.

I discuss this Kim duToit foolishness at slightly greater length on my site, but here I will just say this:

Kim writes about Queer Eye For The Straight Guy (which according to him airs on the Homo Network): "what kind of girly-man would allow these simpering butt-bandits to change his life around?"

Very clever, Kim. But I ask you, by your own lights, what kind of girly-man would I be to allow my masculinity to be called into question by a Canadian gun nut with a woman's name?

Get a life, Queen bee. It's my world. You just live in it.

very nice Johno

Also, I forgot to mention, a member of the fucking Taliban couldn't get away with such misogynistic, atavistic, over-compensating (and yes, I mean in the Big Truck manner) self-aggrandizing, mindless buttjuice. How can we allow a North American to do so?

Buttjuice!

Eric, the reason we have to let this foolishness abide is because, unlike the Taliban, we have the right to speak freely.

And, happily, we have the right to pillory him for it without mercy.

Note to self, "buttjuice" will be added to the insult portion of my vernacular.

End note.

i just despise puffed up little sacks of shit such as this pissant excuse for a buttplug.

I just read Kim's article, and I think I'll have to digest it for a day to put the proper words together to comment on it.

Welcome to Fete d'Kim, Dawn. Several bloggers, myself included, are wondering if there is something he didn't include in his overlong manifesto. Advice on rat eating, like one of his role models, perhaps.

Don't have to like, use or own guns to be a man. Personally, I can't stand the damn things. I believe strongly in the Second Amendment though.

As for cutting them? All three of our boys aren't circumsized. My wife didn't like the thought of hurting them (many argue on the validity of this point) so I went along with what she felt most comfortable with. Pros and cons to both situations. I think that because mother's have a unique bond with the child that fathers should yield to what the mother feels strongly about in this particular decision. Just my 2 1/2 rusted pennies.

damn erroroneous apostrophe ... call the commenting Police!

Roxxxx-anne! You don't have to put aprostrophe!

That's spelled "apostrophe."

lol Duane, yeah like it is spelled in the first sentence? Those were lyrics, didn't ya get it? ;)

Never sing to the commenting Police!

I'll send an SOS for com-ments
I'll send an SOS for com-ments
I'll send an SOS for com-ments
I hope someone corrects my
Message at blog-critics

Haha. Gotcha. Yeah, I like the grammatilyrics.

"You misspelled
Misspelled
Misspelled apostrophe"

sung to the tune of Don't Stand So Close to Me

Kind of fun, eh? See dude, you could be a blogcritic. You are critiquing my fuckup quite well LOL

And every single meeting with his so-called Blogcritic
Is a humiliating kick in the crotch.
Many miles away something crawls to the surface
Of a dark Scottish lake

Eric, why put down gay people by insinuating that that Kim person is one of us? "Pansies"? Oh, that's awful.

Kicking the shit out of anyone is not manly; it is merely a violent activity.
Manly describes a man being whoever he honestly is, be he sensitive or (responsibly and respectfully) aggressive. Honesty should be encouraged.

Oh -- and calling anyone other than a cat a puss is horrible.

You have some Police in you, Natalie? C'mon, I know you do! :)

There's a little black spot on the sun today
It's the same old thing as yesterday
There's a black hat caught in a high tree top
There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain
With the world turning circles running 'round my brain
I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign
But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

Very nice Policework, Natalie.

And now:

Spelling mistakes are what you make
Blogging on the Web
I hope my brain don't break
Blogging on the Web
We could yak forever
Blogging on the Web
Makes no difference whether, we're
Blogging on, Blogging on the Web

dumb idiot me... saw TDavid's Police request and just typed in the first lyrics that came to mind. just realized i was supposed to tweak the lyrics to deal with the subject of blogging, so...

First to cry foul when the blogosphere is less than perfect
Your sensibilities are shaken by the blandest comment
You spend your blogging time engaging in a long whine
So foes semantically take turns to slap you in line

I've tried not to comment on Kim du Toit's post, but the posts here got me going.

I read the whole thing, much to my chagrin.

In my opinion, he doesn't at all understand what being a man is really about. He sort of gets some things: duty and honor are important. Doing the right thing even when it is hard. And so on.

But, despite all the ranting and raving and flag waving that goes on at his site, he completely misses some of the most important parts of being a man - some of which form the basis for our country: tolerance for those that disagree, equal rights under the law, and even freedom of expression, which he says he values so much.

Kim's concept of manhood, to me, is like a cartoon caricature of the real thing. His idea of manhood (for those of you old enough to remember) is Archie Bunker, or something close to that.

His only somewhat legitimate point is that men are often made fun of in popular media and culture. My response is who cares!? If you're so insecure that you can't take someone making fun, not of you, but of your gender (male or female), then you've got serious personality issues. No wonder he has so many guns.

One more, in honor of bloggers who care about stupid stats:

Well someone told me yesterday
You can't just throw your words away
Don't publicize? What - you don't care?
Your blog looks likes it's going nowhere

Time to suck up to other blogs
Sitemeter, Tracker, fill those logs
You need the links, so play a part
Or sit and nurse your broken heart

So lonely
So lonely
So lonely
So lonely

Eric, that was a very MANLY rant there in comment #4. I'm sure Kim would appreciate such randy manliness. Grrrr, you manly man you. ;)

XOX

I just want to take the time to say that this is D.J. from West Philly. Da Bottom. Holla back. Also, this Dawn story doesn't appeal to me. What the fuck is she talkin' about? Shouldn't she be more worried about what her son is going to be? Asshole.