Article 2/23 - Not the hominy!

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This article from the Wall Street Journal is a comedic critique of today's man and how he needs to earn back his manhood. The article starts out with how we live in an age of convenience and everything is at our fingertips. By having things so easily, we become helpless without our numerous internet devices and such that makes our lives run smoothly. For example, he states when a cash register is not working no one can do the mental math to figure out change needed because, to his point, we do not use our brains very much. He then goes on to define what real manliness is, being the things settlers and mountain men did to survive in the wilderness, not spinning classes and working on core. He then goes on to give a guide on what all men should know how to do including, cooking a steak on a grill, how to survive in the forest, and how to jump a car that is not starting. The purpose of this article is to critique as well as amuse. The intended audience are men, specifically those who are not "manly". The author uses satire in his section on knowing how to do manly things, by giving steps but in these steps are critiques of today's society and that do not actually giving helpful suggestions. For example in the section on how to survive in the wilderness, "23. If you are anywhere in North America, within 20 minutes you will come to a Starbucks." By doing this he makes the point that men today do not know how to do any of those "manly" things that our predecessors completed before. Overall, I found this article amusing and enjoyful to read especially the section where he mentioned the spinning classes and doing core, because being a runner, that's a lot of what I do.