{"id":36399,"date":"2011-12-08T23:25:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T23:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/12\/08\/its-true-we-want-our-men-smart-but-not-cocky\/"},"modified":"2011-12-08T23:25:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T23:25:03","slug":"its-true-we-want-our-men-smart-but-not-cocky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/12\/08\/its-true-we-want-our-men-smart-but-not-cocky\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s true. We want our men smart, but not cocky. Protective, but not patronizing. Driven, but not a dick. And we also want him to help us out when we\u2019ve got an eight pm meeting and there are kids that need to get fed. In other words, we want a decent human being to pick up the slack where we can\u2019t, provided we pick up the slack for him. Seems like a reasonable trade. <\/p>\n<p>So why is asking for equality, the \u201cend of men?\u201d Why is asking our partners to be partners emasculating?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/meghancasserly\/2011\/12\/07\/why-we-need-to-stop-bemoaning-the-end-of-men\/\">Why We Need To Stop Bemoaning The \u2018End of Men\u2019 &#8211; <strong>Forbes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read it.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lemdi.tumblr.com\/\">lemdi<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s true. We want our men smart, but not cocky. Protective, but not patronizing. Driven, but not a dick. And we also want him to help us out when we\u2019ve got an eight pm meeting and there are kids that need to get fed. In other words, we want a decent human being to pick &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/12\/08\/its-true-we-want-our-men-smart-but-not-cocky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}