Well, I guess the comments I had made on page 6 of the topic titled:
Two threads you may be interested in seeing.
http://www.sportssuck.org/phpbb2/viewto ... 7&start=75
has caused a split into a separate topic on Book Clubs.
Anyway . . . . .
Here was my post in its entirety, but with the emphases about men and reading books underlined.
Fat Man wrote:OK,
Andy Candy is a
moron, because in an earlier post he said . . . . .
Andy wrote:My academic success has absolutely zero affect on my schooling. For instance, my sister is not an athlete, never has been, but she has a 4.0 in the honors college at the other big university in the state. She is currently on a full-ride scholarship just because she works her butt off in the classroom.
Yeah!
Andy Candy is a fucking
moron!!!
And so am I!
I must also be also a fucking
moron because I overlooked another important fact!
For instance, my sister is not an athlete, never has been, but . . .
The key word here is
sister.
Girls don't have to be athletes, so girls can just breeze right through academics, because girls are not put under the same pressure to excel at sports as boy are.
So, I guess that I must confess to having a moron moment, because I had overlooked that rather significant fact.
Boys in school are under pressure to like sports, and to be good at sports, while girls are not.
I know this for a fact, because when I was going to school, I noticed that most of the girls made higher grades than most of the boys.
So, it boils down to this . . . . .
Sorry! But you're not allowed to check out Astronomy books from the school library, because you have a penis!
Yeah! Because boys have balls, then they must play with balls, while girls have the brains and therefore, are allowed to read books.
I really don't believe in equality of the sexes!
Why would intelligent women want to be equal to men and come down to our level and wallow in the mud with us?
No ladies! You're actually better than us men! You're superior to us men!
WE MEN ARE PIGS!
No wait! I take that back!
Pigs are gentle and intelligent creatures. We men aren't good enough to be pigs!
You see, somewhere along the way, we men have decided that reading books, and studying science and math, well . . . that's sissy stuff. Real men don't sit around reading books. Real men play in sports.
Oh! But if any boy in school has a crippled up leg, and can't do sports, then we just throw him out with the trash!
We will harass him until he has an emotional or mental breakdown, and then, send him off to the loony bin for a little while, and then, we will beat him some more, and shove a dick up his ass!
Gee! I really wish I had been born a girl.
Then, I would not have been under pressure to be in sports, and I would have been allowed to excel academically, even if I had a crippled knee.
If I had thought for one moment, that cutting my nuts off would have changed my life for the better, I would have done it in a New York minute!
OK, I'm in a really fucking bad mood!
The arthritis in my left knee kept me awake last night, and it's been hurting like a son of a bitch!
I guess, by calling myself a moron along with
Andy Candy seems to have had a positive effect.
But mostly, in the light of what I had said, I must thank
CrisOH for bringing up the subject of men and book clubs, which resulted in this becoming a topic on it's own.
And also, ChrisOH, thank you very much for sending me the video link in your PM to me.
I'm going to check around and see if there are any book clubs here in El Paso. But, if they are mostly women members, then I would like very much to start a men's auxiliary book club.
Thank you ChrisOH for the inspiration!
We men need to show the world that not all of us guys are sports obsessed pigs.
I guess my also saying that we men are pigs seems to have had a positive effect.
So, here is my proposal.
For years, those of us who are anti-sports, we have been referring to sports fans and jocks as morons.
So, I propose that we also declare that . . . . .
WE ARE MORONS TOO!
We must be morons!
Why?
Because for far too many years we have allowed . . . etc. etc.
Yes, in declaring ourselves morons, we must also add the clause "We must be morons because for far too many years we had allowed . . . etc. etc. (insert reason or reasons here)" and maybe, it might have the positive effect of changing what it is that is moronic by not allowing it to continue any longer.
Just like when I has said . . .
You see, somewhere along the way, we men have decided that reading books, and studying science and math, well . . . that's sissy stuff. Real men don't sit around reading books. Real men play in sports.
Which of course was merely a sarcasm, but it apparently had inspired ChrisOH to mention the book club for men.
Once again ChrisOH . . .
Thank you very much for mentioning the book club for men.
Real men do read books!
I'm not sure of your exact age, but I've deduced from some of your postings that you're likely younger than me (I'm 40), and well....most of the women at the book clubs were my mother's age or older! Ironically, this was what made my wife uncomfortable about going back -- she wanted to find a club that "wasn't a bunch of old ladies who have time to read 20 books a month." (She is 42 and works full-time.) 
Sorry!
