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“If opportunity knocks and he’s not home, opportunity waits.”

More on the new Most Interesting Man In The World ads in AdWeek.

Powerful speech by Robert F. Kennedy on “mindless menace of violence.” He made the speech the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. 

Please take the six minutes to listen to it.

(h/t: GOOD)

Chicago Fire” is the rare TV show that celebrates a sort of uncomplicated masculinity— and, unlike sitcoms such as “Last Man Standing” and “Guys with Kids” celebrates it as though it were not under attack. These men are manly — they rescue people for a living — but they’re not misogynists (some jokes aside) or nerds or convinced that their gender is about to be destroyed. Many of them have lots of feelings. This makes them pretty rare.

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I like this show, too. Maybe this is part of the reason why.

Read more of Willa Paskin’s article in Salon here.

[Rand] Paul’s challenge to Obama’s executive authority to order drone killings on U.S. soil represents a threat to the Republican Party’s monopoly on manliness — and hence part of its grip on millions of white male voters — for one simple but powerful reason: it shows that (white) men can adopt an anti-militaristic stance and not be dismissed as passive and weak.

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This is a few weeks old, but it’s a good take on how Paul’s filibuster is unique for members the Republican Party who wrap up their individual sense of masculinity with the size and deployment of the U.S. military.

Read more of Jackson Katz’s piece in the Huffington Post.