We have to admit, even we fell into the male stereotype trap. Upon reading the title of the video “How to open a beer bottle with a chainsaw”, the visual that popped up in our minds was a beefy lumberjack simply sawing off the top of the bottle like he would trim a tree and swigging down the brew inside. But no, if you watch the video you can learn exactly how you would open a beer with a chainsaw and still be able to serve it at a fancy dinner party.
Mashable, where we found this, says:
You probably don’t party like the older gent in this video. He opens his beers like a real man — by using a chainsaw. Because that’s just how he rolls.
Party on.
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(And this is where I take this as a “challenge” and go off the deep end on the whole “real man” thing.)
A boy uses an inanimate object to open his beer. A real man uses his own body to open it. Because when you’re out in the wilderness, losing blood by the pint, surrounded by wolves armed with shotguns and are riding bears that have lasers on their heads, the sun is about to go down, the Super Bowl is being played and you forgot to set your DVR for the new ads, you forgot to get the ice cream your wife put on the shopping list, AND you don’t have a chainsaw to open your beer…..you just have to man up and have an eye opening experience. Literally. Behold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k21M91i-uU
It’s not stereotyping anyone … This is a guy who does what he does is all. It appears that men are now being put into a position that men are against other men if their behaviors don’t fit the new image of “being a man” then they’re against men … they’re putting down men?
There are still men who like chain saws. I don’t like garage sailing but a couple of years ago I went to the best one ever. I bought two gas powered chain saws, gas powered weed cutter and a power washer. Go to an estate sale … men are there but you’ll find them in the garage, shed or basement grabbing up as many tools as they can. It’s not stereotyping, it’s simply what some men do.
When I was in my early teen I went camping with my dad and a buddy of mine. My dad had slammed his thumb with something and the blood swelled under his nail. Looked really bad. He hauled out his electric drill and put a small bit in it and handed the drill to me and asked me to drill a hole in his nail. I said he was nuts and no way would I do it. He did it himself …. Not that I will ever do that but heck, I have to admit that it was kinda cool.
Guys are guys and some guys may simply not want to be clumped into the new role. Let them be who they are.