Espadrilles are a traditional shoe that are popular near almost any warm body of water. The ubiquitous brand Toms has taken the shape and capitalized on them, but traditional espadrilles are much better. Check out these from Saludos.
When everyone else near the beach is wearing flip-flops or boat shoes, these are a unique and traditional choice to step up your style game.
Another good example of body language and its importance. Look at his posture and the intensity with which he’s staring into the camera.
This is a display for a store so there’s a bit more justification for all the crap on the coffee table. If you got rid of all that, this would be a pretty sweet set up for a man’s lounge or his living room.
In a truly masculine fashion, Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men unapologetically breaks down the logistics of what it means to be a man.
A quick read that can be done in one sitting, I took about two weeks to get through it because I wanted to digest everything he had to say before I moved on to the next concept. Donovan has a way of articulating ideas that have always existed in a man’s head but have never been labeled or identified. A perfect example of this is the distinction he makes between being a good man and being good at being a man. He explains how our current society is so focused on the former as to have completely abandoned the latter, leaving men as unwilling slaves to the morality of those in positions above them.
He then proceeds to break down the four aspects of being good at being a man and leave an observant reader feeling a lack in the areas he’s never chosen to focus on. He helps the intellectual understand why he feels inferior for never choosing to focus on physical strength and also explains why a strong man can be unmanly without the mastery required to maintain control of his own life.
Donovan not only picks apart our current crisis of masculinity but explains how the critical aspects of manhood and patriarchy have existed in societies both ancient and modern. He focuses on the way of men being the way of the gang and how crucial it is to have male groups and relationships in order to cultivate true manhood.
This is not a how-to book. While Donovan has one chapter at the very end describing how modern men can form their own “gangs” to be able to recapture their lost masculine unity, it is primarily a descriptor of the necessity for these gangs. Donovan also makes repeated claims that we have to understand the mechanics of manhood before we can assign morality to it and leaves the reader to work out his own relationships between masculinity and morality.
This is a book that I recommend all men take the time to read. While Donovan focuses on our current cultural problems in regards to men he does so in a way that doesn’t come across as either whining or martyred. In fact, of all the “red pill” writings I’ve ever read, The Way of Men is the most realistically optimistic about how men can regain their footing. He doesn’t believe in an easy path, but he believes in a path.
In 50 years this may very well become part of the canon that helped men become men again in the 21st century.
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I know this corner of the Internet is full of nihilists, rakes, and players, and my being married and wanting to have children puts me in a small minority. However, being in the minority does not mean I’m the only one.
I tagged along with my wife while she and her sister registered for her baby shower a couple weeks ago and I was frustrated by how pathetic the choice was in neutral or masculine diaper bags. I see it every week in church and wonder how these men can hall around a purse and feel ok with it.
Well, it looks like the folds at Ben Minkoff have realized this is an untapped market and they created a solution to my not-so-unique problem. It has all the extra pockets a good diaper bag needs and even a changing mat so you don’t ruin all the expensive crap you’ve paid for in your house.
If only I had and extra $325 lying around to make this happen. I guess I’ll have to settle for a repurposed messenger bag for now.
