You bring up a very good point here – who is listening. Vanity does kill blogs as the self induced pressure to hit the mark and the traffic counts takes away from looking at who is listening. We listen to those we trust but how can we trust when there is inconsistency or not really knowing that they are listening? Our attention is stretched in many areas with social media and traditional networking and being here, there and everywhere is not easy but identify where your audience is and spending time with them does make you the most interested and you have the time to stop and listen.

Thanks for the article mention as well.

@SuzanneVara

Great post!

Necessary vehicles to present mobile marketing are print media, outdoor advertising, television & radio as well as digital signage. With the enormous growth of this medium, the hopes will be for the traditional and digital media agencies to prosper.

“Real men” have physical and intellectual pursuits and know how to treat a lady while knowing that they don’t have to take [crap] from anyone. BTW, I’m not suggesting that women should take crap from anyone either, but it seems to me that far too many guys cow-tow.

Personally, I like gender roles. Not in the “Leave It to Beaver” sense necessarily, but it’s the differences that create balance. In some ways, this reminds me of the little league teams where every team “wins” (really, is that how life works?). It’s nonsense. We feel like we’re pumping kids up and making sure they all have good self esteem, but we’re really setting them up for false expectations and a sense of entitlement that is an illusion. Some of the best lessons in life I have learned, as a kid and as an entrepreneur, were from my failures. However painful those have been at times.

If we assume everyone has to be the same and treated the same, we’re setting ourselves up for disaster and therein lies the problem with an androgynous society. In order to bring everyone into a “blended” society, we would have to not only find a way to discard (ignore) peoples weaknesses, but we would also have to discard their strengths.

I’m not saying people should be treated badly (ever,) but don’t confuse everyone having equal opportunity with everyone being equally successful or equal achievement. We aren’t all equal in every regard, as people, in our gender, or even in our cultures. And, while I’m at it, we need to stop assuming inequality instantly implies someone is generally inferior. It doesn’t. It means we’re different, and that is a good thing.

Back to the ad: I think it’s simply suggesting that men need to take the reins back on their manhood and be proud of it. The way women (rightly) have become proud of who they are.

For what’s it’s worth, I still like an occasional latte and drank a lot of pina colada’s on the beach in Maui last week.