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The original article featured on AskMen mysteriously disappeared, but thankfully someone archived it.

Obsolete Man Skills You Should Ditch

In brief... they are...

1. Hunting
Instead, Learn How to Cook for Yourself

2. Fighting
Instead, Learn How to Mediate

3. Repairing Your Car
Instead, Learn How to Code

4. Fixing Things at Home
Instead, Learn How to Decorate

5. Being a Leader
Instead, Learn How to Collaborate

6. Being a Disciplinarian
Instead, Learn How to Communicate With Your Children

7. Holding Your Emotions In
Instead, Learn How to Talk About Your Feelings
 
Husky_Khan said:
The original article featured on AskMen mysteriously disappeared, but thankfully someone archived it.

Obsolete Man Skills You Should Ditch

In brief... they are...

1. Hunting
Instead, Learn How to Cook for Yourself

2. Fighting
Instead, Learn How to Mediate

3. Repairing Your Car
Instead, Learn How to Code

4. Fixing Things at Home
Instead, Learn How to Decorate

5. Being a Leader
Instead, Learn How to Collaborate

6. Being a Disciplinarian
Instead, Learn How to Communicate With Your Children

7. Holding Your Emotions In
Instead, Learn How to Talk About Your Feelings
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1. There are still places in america where people hunt for food, depending on your preperation skills a single deer can feed a family for weeks.

2. This person obviously comes from extreme wealth, no the cops will not protect you at all times some times trouble will come to you and you will have to protect yourself.

3. Learn both, coding is a useful skill but knowing how to fix a car will save you a lot of money.

4. Ok this guy is clearly very rich for the rest of us knowing how to fix things is a pretty useful fucking skill.

5. In other words don't ever even think about getting promoted just work in your shit tier job. Fuck this guy.

6. Has this idiot ever been around children? Sometimes their little shits, yeah communicate when you can but some times you have to lay down the law.

7. That can get your ass legit murdered, it can get your ass fired, stoicism is an important skill to have in a shitty world that gives you a bad hand.


in other words a rich idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about.
 
#2 Fighting and #7 Bottling Up Emotions are things men really would be better off by not doing.

Physical fighting often makes the situation worse and Bottling Up Emotions just turns someone into a ticking time bomb ready to go BOOM! over something trivially stupid with no warning.

The other five behaviors? I think guys should keep those behaviors because someone has to do those things. To paraphrase what @Cherico stated above, the author of the article is an entitled idiot.
 
bintananth said:
#2 Fighting and #7 Bottling Up Emotions are things men really would be better off by not doing.

Physical fighting often makes the situation worse and Bottling Up Emotions just turns someone into a ticking time bomb ready to go BOOM! over something trivially stupid with no warning.

The other five behaviors? I think guys should keep those behaviors because someone has to do those things. To paraphrase what @Cherico stated above, the author of the article is an entitled idiot.
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We would be better off with out fighting but some times trouble comes to you no matter how hard you work.

And bottling up emotions is some times very nessary, because mouthing off to the wrong person can get you killed and if you mouth off to an asshole boss you will lose your job. Keeping cool under pressure is a life skill.
 
Cherico said:
We would be better off with out fighting but some times trouble comes to you no matter how hard you work.

And bottling up emotions is some times very nessary, because mouthing off to the wrong person can get you killed and if you mouth off to an asshole boss you will lose your job. Keeping cool under pressure is a life skill.
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Knowing how to defend yourself is an important skill because, as you said, sometimes trouble comes looking for you.

There's also a difference between keeping cool under pressure before safely venting the stress later and pretending that the pressure doesn't bother you. If someone does the latter eventually they're going to blow and it won't be pretty when they do.
 
I'd quote Scott Adams in saying to beware the advice of successful people, they don't seek competition, but I doubt magazine propagandists are 'successful' by any reasonable metric of the term.
 
Bassoe said:
I'd quote Scott Adams in saying to beware the advice of successful people, they don't seek competition, but I doubt magazine propagandists are 'successful' by any reasonable metric of the term.
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Have you ever come across the radio ads saying that you can make a lot of money by flipping real estate? I've been hearing them regularly for at least 20 years.

The guy in the ad isn't trying to teach you how to succeed. He just wants your money and is selling a false dream. If he was truly good at it he wouldn't have to say "buy my book" and "attend my seminars". Instead he would be retired somewhere and giving out advice for free.
 
1. Hunting
Instead, Learn How to Cook for Yourself

2. Fighting
Instead, Learn How to Mediate

3. Repairing Your Car
Instead, Learn How to Code

4. Fixing Things at Home
Instead, Learn How to Decorate

5. Being a Leader
Instead, Learn How to Collaborate

6. Being a Disciplinarian
Instead, Learn How to Communicate With Your Children

7. Holding Your Emotions In
Instead, Learn How to Talk About Your Feelings
Click to expand...

to 1.) Well, I can't legally hunt over here (technically could, but the up-front investment in both time, money and effort really isn't worth it), but I do like to cook. That being said, some of the best (non-professional) cooks I ever had the pleasure to interact with were hunters. So, it's not an either/or situation.

to 2.) Sure, if you want to be seen as pushover and doormat, I guess. Yes, not making everything into a fight is a mature thing to do, but there are simply situations where you need to stand your ground.

to 3.) Yeah, hard pass, ya pansy. Being able to repair my car, even if it's just small stuff, saves me tons of money and gives me skills and confidence in my abilities. Being able to code (without any paperwork to back that up) doesn't help me one bit, be it privately or in my current profession.

to 4.) Basically the same as with 3.)

to 5.) You mean, the thing most men have been doing since the dawn of time? Yawn...

to 6.) It ideally should be a mix of both, with the former being the hard stop line in case the latter doesn't succeed.

to 7.) And if the past 20 years of men trying to do just that has shown us one thing, nothing is less attractive to the other sex (or fellow men in a non-sexual manner) as emotional men.

In conclusion, what a pampered twit.

Edit: I checked out their Facebook. How on Earth is anything these people write geared towards making "better men"? Better for who? Better by what metric? Their whole stash of articles consists of woke, metrosexual crap.
 
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Culsu said:
to 1.) Well, I can't legally hunt over here (technically could, but the up-front investment in both time, money and effort really isn't worth it), but I do like to cook. That being said, some of the best (non-professional) cooks I ever had the pleasure to interact with were hunters. So, it's not an either/or situation.
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How's the fishing in Germany?

I'm headed there for my 3rd year of university and I want to know if the fishing is good.

Also, I don't hunt and cook, but I fish and cook at lot. A successful day of fishing can supply me with 2 weeks worth of protein. Beats the farmed GMO crap any day of the week.
 
BlackDragon98 said:
How's the fishing in Germany?

I'm headed there for my 3rd year of university and I want to know if the fishing is good.

Also, I don't hunt and cook, but I fish and cook at lot. A successful day of fishing can supply me with 2 weeks worth of protein. Beats the farmed GMO crap any day of the week.
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Never went fishing, but in good ol' German fashion you need a license for that, too.
 
Husky_Khan said:
The original article featured on AskMen mysteriously disappeared, but thankfully someone archived it.

Obsolete Man Skills You Should Ditch

In brief... they are...

1. Hunting
Instead, Learn How to Cook for Yourself

2. Fighting
Instead, Learn How to Mediate

3. Repairing Your Car
Instead, Learn How to Code

4. Fixing Things at Home
Instead, Learn How to Decorate

5. Being a Leader
Instead, Learn How to Collaborate

6. Being a Disciplinarian
Instead, Learn How to Communicate With Your Children

7. Holding Your Emotions In
Instead, Learn How to Talk About Your Feelings
Click to expand...
Honestly, a lot of these are skills both men and women should have. What's really hilarious about this is that it shows that this is less about what they might consider to be "toxic" and more about getting people to be less able to do things for themselves, and frankly less able to work in groups. Gee, I wonder why that might be... 😒
 
Husky_Khan said:
The original article featured on AskMen mysteriously disappeared, but thankfully someone archived it.

Obsolete Man Skills You Should Ditch

In brief... they are...

1. Hunting
Instead, Learn How to Cook for Yourself

2. Fighting
Instead, Learn How to Mediate

3. Repairing Your Car
Instead, Learn How to Code

4. Fixing Things at Home
Instead, Learn How to Decorate

5. Being a Leader
Instead, Learn How to Collaborate

6. Being a Disciplinarian
Instead, Learn How to Communicate With Your Children

7. Holding Your Emotions In
Instead, Learn How to Talk About Your Feelings
Click to expand...
Someone needs to pull his head out of his ass. There's nothing either-or about any of these skills, and in fact, you often need to learn the 'new' skills to master the 'old' skills. I mean, what, does he think that hunters don't know how to cook the meat that they bring out of the field? Does he think that we eat deer raw? That we Uber the deer carcass to a chef to have it turned into steak? Does he think that knowing how to fight somehow precludes knowledge of de-escalating a situation? Does he think that good leadership precludes learning how to mediate conflict. I mean, shit, you can't just bark orders at your subordinates.
 
bintananth said:
#2 Fighting and #7 Bottling Up Emotions are things men really would be better off by not doing.

Physical fighting often makes the situation worse and Bottling Up Emotions just turns someone into a ticking time bomb ready to go BOOM! over something trivially stupid with no warning.

The other five behaviors? I think guys should keep those behaviors because someone has to do those things. To paraphrase what @Cherico stated above, the author of the article is an entitled idiot.
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From my personal life experience some people only listen to a bop on the head. They will attack you even though you don't want to get into a fight. Like my Uncle said..... "Don't start a fight finish one." I stand by that life lesson.
 
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