I Want A Neanderthal Man!

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I don’t care how fast you can text. How high can you jump? How fast can you run? How much can you carry?

Today’s men, thanks to sedentary lives and a machine available to perform or ease almost every form  of physical work, have become slow-moving weaklings. A new book by Australian writer Peter McAllister explains — using anthropology and history — just how wimpy modern man has become.

Here’s a story about him.

I’ve only dated one guy who worked an intensely physical job, as a a ship’s engineer. Just getting to the hot and dangerous engine room meant climbing up and down a steep metal ladder several times a day. He was lean, muscled and wiry, a totally different creature from any man I’ve met before or since.

There is something comforting, however retro, to know your man has a few muscles in addition to his Phd or MBA. If I can do a fireman’s carry and drag his atrophied, overeducated bum out of a burning building, I want to feel secure he can do the same for me.