i have just seen a program on ( young ) carers, and anyone who says that its not a manly job is a knob. Particularly what it means to a young person, that person takes on a serious amount of responsibility and pressure at such a young age that even the most "manly of men" wouldn't near achieve.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Stay at home dad who has a small business as a computer fix technican and a satellite TV engineer. Also dabble in farming as a means of being 99% self sufficient food wise
Will probably soon be full time / part time Athlone Town PRO and webmaster for www.athlonetownfc.ie depending on circumstances along with filming every home and away match this coming season.
I'm in college. Probably going to do Accountancy exams after I get my degree. I work in a bookies over holidays and most weekends.
Has Anto McC actually posted what he does for a living, I can't see it anywhere, then again maybe all this office work has taken away my manly sense of sight
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Your actually close with one of those.
Lumberjacking is a very manly profession.
In fact, I know a song about it...
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
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Originally Posted by Dodge
Lim till i die, I'm just after noticing your reply to what apparently were my 'sexist' and 'twaddle' comments. I'm happy to classify your comments as more delightful bravura-revelling. Funny, pertinent and worthy in places, but ultimately ruined, on this occasion, by gaudy accessories. I'd asked for your opinion - which turned out to be a good one. Then I outlined a few preliminary thoughts of mine, which you, instead of building on your own point, sought to disparage when your own argument was hardly complete itself. Hence the label, not all that pejorative, but just annoying when 'debating'. Had you just looked at your own viewpoint you might have realised it was an over-simplistic way to characterise what we were talking about, and would have saved me spelling out what should be pretty non-contentious.
The point is that obviously the mere fact of having a certain job doesn't inherently make one person more manly than another, or allow you to automatically state without knowing the people, 'oh a builder, now he's a proper man compared to a doctor'. Rather, I think it should've been obvious to you that certain occupations tend to be male or female dominated. Be it for congenital or life development/experience reasons a lot of jobs attract, or sometimes demand, males/females.
That's hardly sexist, just realistic, because what are traditonally male attributes are simply better suited to some jobs. That doesn't mean a woman couldn't do the job, just that they generally don't, because men on average would tend to do the job a bit better and there are other jobs that female characteristics would be more suited to. Division of labour and all that. I'd be pretty sure that was Anto's point, he was looking for examples of people in the more male-dominated jobs rather than the unisex ones that had been cropping up more regularly. I very much doubt he was trying to offend our manliness by questioning why few worked in traditionally male-orientated jobs.
Yeah it's handy enough. Good laugh too, talking to fellas about sport all day.
The thing is though I don't really like working Saturdays because the pay is fairly crap and I hate working Sundays (double-time) because it means I can't play Junior soccer. And I hate working during the summer because we stay open until 9.30.....!
Not to put too fine a point on it but you are talking out of your hoop
Any number of people pointed out that they work in various aspects of IT, myself included. You should know that IT is absolutely a male dominated area. In fact I can cite any number of examples where there is not a single female working in the IT department, Anto McC did not consider this manly work, hence the argument put forward in your last paragraph is moot.
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