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Zorro

(16,655 posts)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:14 AM Jan 17

Ladies, it's time to hand the country back to men

It’s our last hurrah before masculine energy returns.

You may have heard that a new president will be inaugurated on Monday.

By Donald Trump’s side, reportedly, will be the billionaire Founding Fathers of our exciting oligarchy. This includes Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, who has rebranded by cutting baby bangs and wearing chains last seen on a Zales truck. As part of this macho makeover, which includes a rejection of fact-checking and a green light for hate speech, the Meta overlord declared that businesses in America should return to a more “masculine” energy.

“I think a lot of the corporate world is pretty culturally neutered,” Zuck told fellow noted Caucasian man Joe Rogan. “Masculine energy is good, and obviously, society has plenty of that, but I think corporate culture was really trying to get away from it. I think having a culture that celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive.”

So true. Men have been ignored for too long. As the nation writes this next chapter, it is crucial to refocus our attention on them. After all, we have been allowed to have credit cards in our own names since, what, 1974? And women run a whole 10% of Fortune 500 companies. What are we even whining about?

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025/01/17/ladies-its-time-hand-country-back-men-column/
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Ladies, it's time to hand the country back to men (Original Post) Zorro Jan 17 OP
Mark "Dead Eyes" Zuckerberg is a manly man. sop Jan 17 #1
Toxic testosterone Walleye Jan 17 #2
OMG Walleye you made me spit my coffee out Diamond_Dog Jan 17 #5
I don't want to see that. Ray Bruns Jan 17 #6
Based on how loudly they protesteth, I doubt there is much to see! MLAA Jan 17 #8
Perhaps true for Eloon and Zuck, but we've all seen zorbasd Jan 18 #26
I'll get my magnifying glass. TBA Jan 17 #11
This type of approach Beck23 Jan 17 #13
The best way to do something isn't always the most efficient way. In fact most the time it isn't. Walleye Jan 17 #21
I envision a Goldfinger like scenario, where lady crop dusters spray female hormones across the Capitol surfered Jan 17 #3
That is the kind of thinking outside of the box that I like Walleye Jan 17 #22
Man it up, boys. Don't let those other big-talking bully bros make you feel small and weird. Throw women under the bus-- Timeflyer Jan 17 #4
Yeah. We've given you a week and you haven't solved anything. We get to try Wonder Why Jan 17 #7
I'm having a real hard time to even come up with a sarcastic comment... MiHale Jan 17 #9
Poor Poor Men... (sniff sniff) TBA Jan 17 #10
Going back in evolution Beck23 Jan 17 #12
Yeah! Let 'em enigmania Jan 17 #14
Women need to stop feeding the monster in those men. And stop partnering in the manly men's daily lives. BComplex Jan 17 #15
What we women need is an Amazon nation of our own nt Wicked Blue Jan 17 #16
This longing for a fake 1957 SARose Jan 17 #17
I swear all they really want is to be able to tell lewd jokes about women all day at work and go travelingthrulife Jan 20 #27
Women must be overjoyed that they Submariner Jan 17 #18
I love sarcasm Hoosier_Progressiv Jan 17 #19
"Masculine energy." dchill Jan 17 #20
This! Joinfortmill Jan 17 #23
He's such a whiny weasel. Joinfortmill Jan 17 #24
Leon Musk, Jeff Bozos and Mark Knickerbocker as avatars of masculinity! prodigitalson Jan 18 #25

sop

(12,176 posts)
1. Mark "Dead Eyes" Zuckerberg is a manly man.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:42 AM
Jan 17

"Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ). He was promoted to blue belt on July 22, 2023 by his coach, Dave Camarillo, a legendary BJJ black belt. Zuckerberg has been training in BJJ and MMA since the COVID-19 lockdown. Zuckerberg has competed in jiu-jitsu tournaments, winning a gold medal in the Nogi Master 1 White Belt Feather Weight Division and a silver medal in the Gi Master 2 White Belt Feather Weight Division."

Walleye

(37,173 posts)
2. Toxic testosterone
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:54 AM
Jan 17

I wish they would just haul their dicks out and measure them in public. Geeze

Beck23

(310 posts)
13. This type of approach
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:19 AM
Jan 17

Is what sent American jobs to China, and desires to bring in an army of H-1Bs to take American jobs.

Walleye

(37,173 posts)
21. The best way to do something isn't always the most efficient way. In fact most the time it isn't.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:33 AM
Jan 17

I refuse to bow down to the god of efficiency. You don’t want to be efficient when you’re having sex or eating or drinking. Sure business should be carried out in a business-like way, but efficiency is not always best.

surfered

(4,512 posts)
3. I envision a Goldfinger like scenario, where lady crop dusters spray female hormones across the Capitol
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:55 AM
Jan 17

…and save our country from toxic masculinity.

Walleye

(37,173 posts)
22. That is the kind of thinking outside of the box that I like
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:35 AM
Jan 17

Of course, they already think we spike their food with hormones.

Timeflyer

(2,812 posts)
4. Man it up, boys. Don't let those other big-talking bully bros make you feel small and weird. Throw women under the bus--
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 09:03 AM
Jan 17

they're used to it, and it makes your inner primate hoot with pleasure.

And what happened to the cage match fight proposed between Zuck and Musk? Talk about masculine energy!

Wonder Why

(4,843 posts)
7. Yeah. We've given you a week and you haven't solved anything. We get to try
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 09:45 AM
Jan 17

for another 10, 000 years.

😁

MiHale

(11,086 posts)
9. I'm having a real hard time to even come up with a sarcastic comment...
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:03 AM
Jan 17

Don’t think this has ever happened to me.

TBA

(842 posts)
10. Poor Poor Men... (sniff sniff)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:11 AM
Jan 17

White men have suffered enough! Women and minorities demanding equal rights is just too cruel!

Beck23

(310 posts)
12. Going back in evolution
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:14 AM
Jan 17

Humans evolved when they learned how to work together in groups. Even the Lone Ranger had Tonto.

enigmania

(248 posts)
14. Yeah! Let 'em
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:32 AM
Jan 17

pick the bones from the carcass of democracy. Bonus: they get to marginalize millions of people in the process. (bastards)

BComplex

(9,218 posts)
15. Women need to stop feeding the monster in those men. And stop partnering in the manly men's daily lives.
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:58 AM
Jan 17

But some women like it.

Evangelicals.



SARose

(1,055 posts)
17. This longing for a fake 1957
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:03 AM
Jan 17

is incomprehensible to me because I lived it.

My Mother never wore a dress, pearls, stockings (not panty hose) to clean house.

My Mother wore shorts in the house during the summer because we didn’t have AC in Texas. There was always a wrap around skirt on the back of the couch in case someone knocked on the door.

I think back to the backyard barbecues, holiday parties, birthday parties, etc. and now I understand why they drank.

More importantly, my Mother never worked outside the home after she told the bank she was pregnant with me.

If these fools want 1950s wives - by all means let’s accommodate them. Stay home. Let these MAGA husbands pay the bills on THEIR salary alone.

A day without a woman sounds good to me.👍

travelingthrulife

(1,324 posts)
27. I swear all they really want is to be able to tell lewd jokes about women all day at work and go
Mon Jan 20, 2025, 11:54 AM
Jan 20

to the bar ( called 'The Office', no doubt) after work.
Women really messed that up. Damn them!

Submariner

(12,785 posts)
18. Women must be overjoyed that they
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:06 AM
Jan 17

are going to be taken care of the next 4 years whether they like it or not!

dchill

(41,015 posts)
20. "Masculine energy."
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:15 AM
Jan 17

"Being a dick." There's already a surfeit of masculine energy, as the 2024 election has shown.

prodigitalson

(3,033 posts)
25. Leon Musk, Jeff Bozos and Mark Knickerbocker as avatars of masculinity!
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 03:10 AM
Jan 18

am I the only one who thinks that's as silly as it is misogynistic? even in the context of some antiquated idea of manliness, they aren't it! And they do not see it. Their words and actions betray a clear detachment from reality.

those are spell check recommendations on their names lol

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