"Man Prayer"

[seabeyond]

i am in love. truly in love. made me choke up... simply in the grace.

this link was sent to me, by a smart and special person.

[BainsBane]

1. These are lessons we all can learn from

man and woman alike.

[seabeyond]

2. absolutely.

cause when the little kids said something about ... i love and respect my mother.

i wanted to say

and you mothers, you had better damn well earn it.

[ismnotwasm]

3. Sending this to my oldest grandson

Very very cool

[Mnemosyne]

4. You just knew I hadn't cried today, didn't you?!

Thanks Sea!

[seabeyond]

5. ha.. isnt it funny.

i am never sad. i never cry sad. but, love.... takes me down every time. lol

[Mnemosyne]

12. I am rarely sad for myself, my sadness is for others. I find a reason to laugh every single day,

usually at myself for taking myself too seriously, or for putting the remote in the fridge, or for trying to make a phone call on it!

I am amazingly blessed to have never been bored, not ever in my life. Yeah, I'm weird. Lol

[seabeyond]

14. you and mean woman....

i see funny all day long. for sure. and certainly makes life fun. i can be in the middle of a rant and see a funny.

[Buck Turgidson]

6. Sorry, but the concept of the Man's Prayer is from the Red Green show.

"I'm a man, but I can change, if I have to, I guess."

[ismnotwasm]

7. I found it on the one billion rising website

What is the red green show?

[Mnemosyne]

13. Canada and duct tape. PBS show. nt

[seabeyond]

8. not being abusive is ... sigh, having to change cause those wimmin folk dont like it?

or having to change is ... sigh, having to be vulnerable? like a man isnt, and continually denies it and pretends it is just a wimmins thing?

i do not know where it si from, who started it, but, it is silliness to listen to what these men are saying and suggest it is "changing" who men are. and THAT is part of the problem with our nation. and THAT is the purpose for people to listen to the video.

how totally silly.

now, can i see some funny skits with this? sure.

[redqueen]

9. A poetic summary of the message men like Jackson Katz have been working so hard to get out there.

Thanks for posting it.

[seabeyond]

10. i do not get why men are saying this is about "changing" men. that makes absolutely no sense unless

they are saying they are not human and do not experience human emotion.

[redqueen]

11. Sloppy thinking. Just as 'sex' and 'porn' are interchangeable words for some people,

so are 'men' and 'masculinity'... it's a very basic flaw in logic.

Women decided decades ago to fight the idea that femininity was the same thing as womanhood.

That still hasn't happened on a large scale for men. We still see some conservative/old fashioned types who insist that being a woman means being nurturing and graceful and having some kind of innate liking or talent for domestic work. Mostly those ideas are ignored and dismissed. The same is not true for the idea that being a man means being strong and tough and emotionally stunted and willing to fight.

That is changing though. Check this out from last year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/world/asia/changing-the-notion-of-masculinity.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0