Man Up

When you hear this phrase, what do you think?
What goes through your head?
Do you "Man Up" or stick to your own self-interests to whoever is saying this phrase's detriment?

*takes a chair. sits down in silence and listens to what the men have to say*

I say it to my 17 yo son all the time. lol!

Posted by cowpuncher
Toughen up, sober up, roll up your sleeves and work, take responsibility... could mean any of those things and a few others, depending.

John Wayne of course had good things to say on the topic:

I see/hear it used more for super facial stuff. Don't normally question it when it' about responsibility or doing a grisly task. Though now I think the phrase is losing it's meaning by being overused.

I.E. "Man up and wear the dress..." etc

Might as well reply also..since my dad wanted a son and he raised me like one..it was pretty obvious since I would only get cars and soldiers for presents lol.

Defining principles for yourself and upholding them. Integrity for the sake of your character and not for a false sense of bravado.

Understanding life is adverse and you have to roll with the punches.

Getting a hold of yourself most times, losing yourself in your passion for life and whatever you choose to pursue.

2 poems on the wall facing my bed:

1) If—
By Rudyard Kipling

(—Brother Square-Toes—??Rewards and Fairies)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you??ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ??em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: —Hold on!??

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds?? worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you??ll be a Man, my son!

2) Invictus by William Ernest Henley:

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Posted by tiziani
Usually when people said it to me it meant stop crying, because that's not going to change it.


You know what? Even if I didn't like them, they were right. Eventually you learn to do what works, and save the apologies for later.

-Nods- I haven't had it said to me personally. I follow the traditional sense of the phrase.
Though I have heard the phrase being used for things that just seem trivial.
Nothing manly about the task, more so the other person being lazy or whiny about it or butthurt the dude wasn't serving them automatically.

They mean it to stop bitching and complaining. Man up take responsibility and don't let the simple things step all over you. I have too many dumb ass friends who won't man up, sometimes you have to beat it into em. But it's all worth it.

I like it. 😛

Posted by Damnata


If—
By Rudyard Kipling

(—Brother Square-Toes—??Rewards and Fairies)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you??ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ??em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: —Hold on!??

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds?? worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you??ll be a Man, my son!

this is a gem. i will print this and post on my wall as well. 🙂

love that poem damnata??_.what a man that father was.

If you have done things like this:



and/or this:



Everything else is kiddie stuff.