Monday, 03 August 2009

• Blue Skye: Man Enough for the Couch?

  Sometimes, I come to wonder what I really contribute to sites like Mancouch.

  
  

  I'm not really a sports fan, but like playing soccer and swimming. I'm an electronic and anti-folk songwriter and musician in my spare time. But much crazier, I find model girls, big boobs (in fact, I am more the type to ask you to cover them up in a t-shirt, if you dated me), and even, shockingly enough, celebrity women overrated. (I put up that list for the fun of it, and as a response to whatserface's overload.) Although, I'm a butt man, I am not really quick to look for women, whom in one picture will inspire a quick erection. I once wrote about the futility of chasing after the hottest girl in the room. Not only that, but I acknowledge the fact that I have a really wonderful girlfriend. If that isn't much, I have the balls to come to the logical conclusion that Ms. Alpha Fox is to men what Robert Pattinson is to your little sister. (Yeah, I said it. I'm not just saying that because they are Taureans, either.)

  I just happen to be the nerdy man on the couch. But instead of being the usual man, I am one of those who give you partly thought provoking blogs that just might fit, and gives into the male stereotype only for the fun of it. (Do some of you really think I jack off to women in Playboy or Entertainment Weekly?) Of all the 8 posts that I have contributed to Mancouch, I wanted to offer questions and personal confessions of an actual man about things Mancouch could think of, from the idea of a gay man doing hip-hop, which is one of the most male dominated and run profession in music, to who I personally have a crush on in celebrity or anti-celebrity culture. I even did a little bit of whining that I don't have enough guy friends, which is why I considered Mancouch a close godsend.

  I'm even the type to treat an "-ish site" like Mancouch a little like a government or like interior decorating: if there is something you don't like about it, or something you think should be altered, then alter it, instead of raging against it. For example, I know Paul_Partisan (a Xanga friend of mine) hates Mancouch because he thinks that it is as shallow and kind of not into the idea of thinking about more than just women and gross situations. (Talking about everything you read on Stuff and Maxim is not even my strong suit. I'd rather talk about great music, and talk about sex intellectually. Anything else would be fine.) And that I understand wholeheartedly. I read a blog of his about becoming rich off of little girls. That would be a perfect submission to Mancouch, as well as his current diss against Mancouch. (Sure, that is an ironic act, but what is more manly than not being afraid to bear his knuckles?) See? I even would go good at choosing which blogs would be pretty cool to replace all that stuff on buttfloss and cleavage addiction.

  Basically, I am all for discussing stuff that guys talk about (after all, that is both the coda of the site, and a rebellion against lovelyish and datingish, two mostly women-dominated sites), but I want to have open conversations about anything, including stuff the majority of men and women don't really talk about. I submitted a blog about my experiences in a steam room at the YMCA, and was about to talk about the whole Nice Guy vs. Bad Boy dynamic using music between The Beatles and Buckcherry. 

  Still, with all of these plans, what do you think I really do for Mancouch?
  

  Mancouch responds: We publish almost all of your posts!  Except for the poem you submitted...  Mancouch has a newly formed "no poem" policy, unless they are limericks.  Haikus will do in a pinch.  Here's an example:

  Mynameisbluesky:
  No one jacks off to Playboy
  We all use RedTube.
  

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