MSN Launches Men's Subsite

Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2006-09-30 23:02

Stop the presses, can it be the sun has risen in the west and will set in the east? Check out http://men.msn.com/. Yes, you read that right. Now let's see just what kind of stuff they put there. Wonder if they will include any links to MRA-issues and -interests sites? Frankly I am not holding my breath, what with articles on back-hairiness and closet contents on the debut day.

Looks to me more like a site for women that is "supposed" to be for men... *sigh*... same claptrap, different day.

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I saw that this site is one like this: 'be a modern man so women will praise you'. Fu*k off!!

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Submitted by zzoonn on Sun, 2006-10-01 15:30

Just judging from a brief inspection, the site looks a little too "chickish" for me -- like something the women at MSN would throw together because they think it's what reasonable men should be interested in. Unless MSN gives me reason to do otherwise, I think I'll steer clear of their site and go to askmen.com instead. At least askmen has some real feminist-critical and female-critical opinion pieces by men mixed in with the usual advice stuff from women.

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Submitted by gregory on Sun, 2006-10-01 23:05

Their “guy wisdom” section was about BBQ. “Meat and fire” being a headline. (Cue: Tim Allen grunts) It looks like it is going to be comprised of male formula #1, “Men like simple traditional things, men want the ladies”

Doesn’t appeal to me, have you guys heard of leo burnett?

http://www.leoburnett.com/manstudy/home.htm

Marketers aren’t appealing to many men at all these days. It’s because the majority of us are not the new age, metro, pretty boy, nor the traditional, conservative “meat and fire” macho man. Why always these extremes? Oh yes, because no one cares what we actualy want or like, we get two molds, if we complain, we are whiney, I forgot.

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Submitted by hujo on Tue, 2006-10-03 00:24