re: What happened to men?

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I'm not talking about Alpha and Beta nonsense; that's always existed and always will. I'm talking about men just generally being men. Talking like men. Smoking cigarettes, cigars, pipes. Meeting together in groups, free from any outside malevolence. Being together in an estrogen free environment, smoking or drinking or doing neither; just conversing. My grandfather talks about these sorts of conversations often, and I've never even seen one. He talks about meeting around a newspaper, a common issue, a problem. I've seen that here, but not in the way he envisions. In his stories, alcohol and cigarette smoke are in the air. Pipes. People speaking French because it was God's language to them. Reveling in tradition, culture and close relationships.

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Where I live, there are three joints that every day the "Men" get together and shoot the shite. I was with them this morning.