Spiderboy and Princess

Response to “What Our Sons See”

by Brian on 8/30/2010

I read a blog called, Modestly Yours, and recently Cady posted a blog entitled What Our Sons See. With all do respect to Cady and the love she has for her son, I thought her post was a very feminine perspective of a male issue, so I wrote my own manly response to her post:

Hi Everyone! I thought I’d jump into the discussion an give a manly man’s perspective on teaching boys about woman and modesty.

First, let me start off by saying that I’m not in anyway trying to attack modesty, and I completely agree with you all on it. However, I’ll try to say this with a lot of gentleness, but I think when it comes to teaching your son to “avert his gaze,” you got it all wrong. Also, I don’t think that spousal dissatisfaction, infidelity, pornographic addiction, and sexual violence has anything to do with “a simple look, a tiny thought, a small seed of lust.” This is a myth that woman believe about men, and nothing could be further from the truth.

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Do you remember when Gray Powell left the iPhone 4 prototype at a bar?

Remember how the prototype was disguised as an iPhone 3GS in a protective case?

I believe Apple did all their field testing with the protective case on all prototypes.

Just my theory.

Perhaps Apple should rectify the problem by giving everyone a limited edition Gray Powell protective case.

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Linux Shell Shortcuts

July 9, 2010
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For the Linux bash shell users out there, here are some short cuts that will save you time when entering commands (from Getting Started with Bash): Commands to take advantage of bash’s Emacs Mode: ctrl-a Move cursor to beginning of line ctrl-e Move cursor to end of line meta-b Move cursor back one word meta-f [...]

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Boring Classrooms Lead to Video Game Addiction

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Not that I am in anyway an advocate of video games, but I read this Globe and Mail article and I thought I should point out the flaw in blindly believing stats.  While this study suggests that kids who spend more than 2 hours playing videos games are more likely to have attention problems, it [...]

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Failure To Launch or Just Crashing?

June 6, 2010
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I finished reading Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax. Both Girls On The Edge and Boys Adrift were good reads. I thought Girls On The Edge was a bit better, but maybe I’m a bit biased because I’m a guy and we’re boring—Girls On The Edge seemed to have more content. But both were good reads! [...]

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Social Media Apps Don’t Belong In The Cloud

May 12, 2010
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I’m listening to Leo Laporte on live.twit.tv during a taping of TWiG (I think), and they are discussing Facebook’s recent privacy issues. It’s funny because they won’t admit the real topic they’re are discussing, that is social apps do not belong in the cloud. The problem with the cloud is that it forces users to [...]

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Facebook Usage in News Reports

May 10, 2010
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I have been blogging about the news media’s usage of Facebook profile pages in news reports for a while now. I think this is an issue that is ironically overlooked by the media when they cover Facebook privacy stories. A few months ago I wrote a letter to the CBC’s Ombudsmen asking for details about CBC’s usage [...]

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Multiplexes and Luxury Condos

May 7, 2010
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On Thursday, The City of Thunder Bay held their first public session on the possible construction of a multiplex facility. I have really been on the city’s case about this, not because of the multiplex, but because all of their consultations are done the old fashion way, through this public sessions where the majority of [...]

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Sex, Booze and Facebook

May 6, 2010
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I came across this interview recently in Maclean’s with Leonard Sax on his new book, Girls on the Edge.  There are many interesting thoughts that Leonard shares in the interview.  Here are a few: Appearances suggest that girls are doing better than boys: On paper, yes. In Canada, about 61 per cent of university undergraduates are women. [...]

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Kobo Reader

May 5, 2010
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I’m a little slow at posting this review, but on Saturday I picked up a Kobo Reader.  Previously I had a Sony eReader, and was curious about the Kobo, so I picked one up.  I gave my Sony to my brother. The Kobo Reader is a good product. The interface is simple, the screen is [...]

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