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"I'm a man's man..."

I've often heard of this expression, and someone actually used it to me recently. I think I have a good idea of what is meant by it but, when I tried to define what it meant, I stumbled.
Any ideas?
  

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[nq:1]I've often heard of this expression, and someone actually used it to me recently. " There was a longish thread on it recently, but the Google Groups search turns up surprisingly many uses of it here in the last six months, and I don't know which one is that discussion. Best Donna Richoux

  • [nq:1]I've often heard of this expression, and someone actually used it to me recently.
  • " There was a longish thread on it recently, but the Google Groups search turns up surprisingly many uses of it here in the last six months, and I don't know which one is that discussion.
  • Best Donna Richoux
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[nq:1]I've often heard of this expression, and someone actually used it to me recently. I think I have a good idea of what is meant by it but, when I tried to define what it meant, I stumbled.[/nq]
It's been used different ways, but what I think is a safe definition is "the kind of man who is admired by other men, the kind of man that other men would like to be like."
There was a longish t
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[nq:1]There was a longish thread on it recently, but the Google Groupssearch turns up surprisingly many uses of it here in the last six months, andI don't know which one is that discussion.[/nq]
Thank you.
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[nq:2]I've often heard of this expression, and someone actually used ... when I tried to define what it meant, I stumbled.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's been used different ways, but what I think is a safe definition is "the kind of man who is ... surprisingly many uses of it here in the last six months, and I don't know which one is that discussion.[/nq]
It's one variation on an established pattern.
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[nq:2]It's been used different ways, but what I think is ... months, and I don't know which one is that discussion.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's one variation on an established pattern. A doctor's doctor is a doctor who's eminently qualified and widely respected by ... should be a man who's recognized by other men as having the attributes of masculinity to a markedly superior degree.[/nq]
But what are
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[nq:1]But what are the "attributes of masculinity"? Is a man's man one who never, ever, leaves the toilet seat down? Or can even a girly man be a man's man if enough of the other men doing the judging are all metrosexuals?[/nq]
What makes someone a man's man is in the judgement of the person who uses the term "man's man." It's their call.

Best Donna Richoux
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Why not? In order to achieve distinction the m.m. may have to aspire to the further subclass of man's man's man. I'm a little surprised that feminists have left "girly man" unreproved: not that they would feel obliged to defend any man from Spiny Arnold; but the contempt attached to the word "girly" must surely rankle.
[nq:1]What makes someone a man's man is in the judgement of the person who
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[nq:1]But what are the "attributes of masculinity"? Is a man's man one who never, ever, leaves the toilet seat down? Or can even a girly man be a man's man if enough of the other men doing the judging are all metrosexuals?[/nq]
A man's man is polite about it, but does not waste his time on questions like these.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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[nq:2]But what are the "attributes of masculinity"? Is a man's ... of the other men doing the judging are all metrosexuals?[/nq]
[nq:1]What makes someone a man's man is in the judgement of the person who uses the term "man's man." It's their call.[/nq]
But, anyway, what's a metrosexual?
Okay, I see Wikipedia has an article on it at
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[nq:1]I've often heard of this expression, and someone actually used it to me recently.[/nq]
I've heard it twice, both times from slovenly jackanapes as an excuse for their swinish living habits. In retrospect, I should have back-handed each of them until he admitted to being a monkey's uncle.

"With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross."
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[nq:1]I've often heard of this expression, and someone actually used it to me recently. I think I have a good idea of what is meant by it but, when I tried to define what it meant, I stumbled. Any ideas?[/nq]
Not the opposite of "I'm a woman's man".

"In August Rudyard's listlessness called for another series of major and very unpleasant medical examinations.. He later joked ... 'If th

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