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[lumberjack_jeff]

I'm thinking that those who speak for everyone® might not consider TMG so "vile" if we changed the name.
Which replacement names appeal to you?

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	The "We promise to put the toilet seat down" group
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	The "I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to... I guess" group
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	The "Whatever. Blame has to go somewhere" group
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	The "Hot celebrities? Why I NEVER...!" group
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	The "I mansplained once. My shame will never be absolved." group.
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	The "Okay, I hate myself. Now do you like me?" group.
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	No change. Obi Wan is right and I like the "Mos Eisely" vibe.
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	Other
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[name not needed]

1. "Could be worse. At least this isn't the Rob Ford group"

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. Heh. +1

[Scuba]

2. How about "The Group Formerly Known As Prince"

[Denninmi]

4. I like it.

Can we use an unpronounceable symbol, too?

[rrneck]

3. Just call it "Porky's" nt

[Inkfreak]

5. "Pull My Finger"

Everyone loves fart jokes, right? Can't be mad at that. Might even increase subscribers.

[Warren DeMontague]

16. ***

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. .

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

7. Change it to "History of Feminism"

Confuse the fuck out of everyone.

[Gore1FL]

8. How about History of NOW

NOW being the present, not any organization by that name.

I'm already confused.

[lumberjack_jeff]

10. We could call it "the future of men".

I think that might attract even more ambivalence.

[Major Nikon]

13. History of Meminism

[RiffRandell]

24. Haha! nt

[Eleanors38]

59. Isn't there an Art Group?

[Upton]

9. Perhaps a branch group will do the trick..

call it something like, lets see.."History of Men"..and then post absolutely nothing to do with the actual history of men. The group will fit right in..

[Warren DeMontague]

11. "I Blame The Matriarchy"?

... too soon?

[nomorenomore08]

60. Or maybe 10,000 years too late...

[Major Nikon]

12. The Y-Files

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_chromosome

[opiate69]

14. I vote for "DUckies"...

Or, "remdi95"

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Ouch

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Ned Shneebly

[libodem]

18. Oddly

You don't see men practicing "masculinism" as a description of themselves. I never thought of it in that way. Are you guy masculinists?

[loli phabay]

19. yes, oh i thought you said masochist

[libodem]

20. Don't MAKE me

Have to be mean to you.

[Eleanors38]

32. Didn't History of Minimalism get mentioned?

[loli phabay]

33. not a good thing to mention minimal or the melty man around guys i find.

[Warren DeMontague]

22. No way.

Can't stand that stuff.

[libodem]

23. lololol

I think I'm old school. I started thinking about gender in the 70's and our deal was not to be more "lady-like", but to be able to do things that guys were allowed to do, but we were restricted from because of our sex. Even stupid stuff like wearing pants to school didn't happen until the 70' s.

Hey, thanks for the vino. I try not to drink until after 5. I still have rules.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. I remember a lot of it. I grew up on "Free to be, you and me".

And I found the Reagan backlash particularly distressing.

As for the wine; I don't drink at all, anymore, but if I was going to... well, take it from a Jew- Manishewitz is best avoided unless absolutely necessary.

[libodem]

26. I think I've had it before

But that was before I became the wino, I am today. I saw it on the list in the Jewish, group...have you tried these foods. All that stuff interests me in an modern anthropology way.

This is crazy but I've always felt like I was Jewish in a past life. I know. I know.

[westerebus]

27. The Future History of Menism sponsored by Porky's finger pulling news group formally known as Prince.

OK, but who's gonna tell Darla?

[lumberjack_jeff]

28. I guess I'm stuck with the job.

It seems Alfalfa always gets the unpleasant tasks.

[westerebus]

29. Well that's gonna leave a mark!

Poor Alfalfa. Smitten by beauty and almost done in by his pals.

[lumberjack_jeff]

30. Poor Alfalfa.

taking crap because of what his buddies said.

[westerebus]

31. Well that would never happen round here.

[Revanchist]

34. How about

"For the last time, we're not members of a MRA!"?

[Warren DeMontague]

36. "only the true messiah denies his divinity"

[opiate69]

40. The People's Front of Judea, then lol

[Warren DeMontague]

41. Not me

I'm the popular front

[opiate69]

42. SPLITTER!!!!

[TreasonousBastard]

35. The "You're right, I'm wrong. Now shut up and I'll fix the...

squeaky door after the game" group.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. Perhaps a theme song?

[loli phabay]

38. how about, its raining men.

[opiate69]

39. Never thought I would ever "thumbs-up" anything to do with Radiohead... But....

[loli phabay]

44. lol hate radiohead

[opiate69]

45. Yup.. same here.. but...

If people are gonna continue to throw around ridiculous aspersions, may as well greet their idiocy with a fair amount of irreverence lol.

[loli phabay]

43. make up and a manicure.

[opiate69]

46. could never do the make-up thing.. too much facial fuzz lol..

But, as a working guitarist, manicures are almost mandatory!

[loli phabay]

47. laser treatment, lol

[opiate69]

48. oh gods no.. my wife wouldn't recognize me without the goatee lmao

[loli phabay]

49. hey stranger sex it is then. lol

[opiate69]

50. lol

[Warren DeMontague]

51. I did the Castro one Halloween in drag, back in the day. True story.

Shocking, I know, for a well-known heteronormative gendernorm male gaze objectinoflasmiplopfluous phallopressor, such as myself.

I learned one important thing about myself; namely, that I look like shit in drag.

Edited to add: See, that was another area where Jerry saved money. He only had 9 fingers to manicure.

[opiate69]

52. heh., the closest I've come to dressing in drag was

some of the shit I had to wear being in a metal band back in the 80's lol

[Warren DeMontague]

53. Oh yeah, I remember those guys.

It was completely not my scene, in the 80s. I knew some people in College who were all about the LA Glam Metal scene, and it just made less than no sense to me or where my head was at.

I was squarely on the intersection between the hippie/retro and proto-alternative camps. Which is sort of where I still am, either meaning I'm consistent or unimaginatively boring.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

54. We should rename this group "It"

Like the Stephen King novel.

"It" takes on the image of whatever your imagination fears most. I've come to the conclusion this must be "It" for some of our followers.

[lumberjack_jeff]

55. You wanna balloon, Georgie?

The really entertaining thing is that the ones who gnash their teeth the loudest have never, ever, one, single, time, commented or posted here ever.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

56. If all we did here was post....

....about checking for prostate cancer and Mo-Vember and all that happy happy public service stuff, there would still be people blowing a gasket that a "Men's Group" exists on DU without having even looked in here.

[lumberjack_jeff]

57. One of their most common themes is...

"A men's group? What's next, a white power group?"

Because two men talking are indistinguishable from neonazis and skinheads.

Against that backdrop, I think this group is important. The gender gap in elections is 20 points, I see the fact that only 42% of men voted for Obama as a problem to be solved, not a point of pride and reason for smug superiority.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

58. Unfortunately, those discussions in GD lead to....

...."See, men are assholes who want us all to suffer".

[nomorenomore08]

61. To put it bluntly, though, how *do* we get white men to vote Democrat without being racist

or sexist? Being more pro-labor would certainly help, but the Repubs are even more anti-union than the Dems and they still get the white dude votes.

[grahamhgreen]

62. "The women are smarter" group:

"Let us put men and women together
See which one is smarter
Some say men, but I say no
Women run the men like a puppet show..."