Men should not act like boys, unless they're playing Viking

Another Viking from my group posted this video of us on Facebook. It’s not one he made; he found it somewhere. I’m not entirely sure who made it, but it’s very well done.

You’ll note that I “kill” Ragnar in the first fight. A phenomenon that rare deserves to be memorialized on film.

Watched the movie, The Hangover last night. I’d heard a lot about how hilarious it is.

Well, it’s funny. I laughed (snorted, actually) in a couple places. But mostly I found it distasteful.

It purports to be an affirmation of manhood and male bonding, in the face of a feminizing culture.

But that affirmation of manhood is actually an affirmation of boyhood. These men aren’t asserting their right to their status as men. They’re asserting their right to be irresponsible and make idiots of themselves. As if that’s what being a man is about.

I was particularly troubled by the attitude of the father of the bride (played by the great Jeffrey Tambor), who sends the bridegroom off to his Vegas bachelor party with a serious, fatherly speech that says, “Remember, what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.”

What kind of father is that? What kind of father will his son-in-law be?

Yeah, I’ve achieved fuddy-duddy status at last.

0 thoughts on “Men should not act like boys, unless they're playing Viking”

  1. Lars old fellow…. I lift my cup in honor of your fuddy-duddy-ism…! Indeed, I respect your opinion greatly on this issue!

  2. Just read an interesting article in the New Yorker in which it is stated as simple fact that any woman in an American film who is going to be considered a “sympathetic character” by the viewers later has to be first “brought low” near the beginning of the film. It’s making me rethink some films….

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