How to make handwriting more "manly"?

[RitaCarbon]

  On 2/6/2010 at 6:42 AM, Scrawler said:

  On 2/6/2010 at 12:33 AM, RitaCarbon said:

You knew that. It's always about the dialectical opposites. To be more manly, one has to accept his feminine side.

 

Oh you are so funny

that was quite a joke

but you are on the money

I really am a bloke

 

I swear a lot and drink my beer

I swagger and I strut

as girls go by I turn and leer

my head is full of smut

 

I do this stuff that manly

it's natural you see

'cos my name is Stanley

and I can stand to pee

 

I'm insensitive and cloddish

not gived to too much brain

my face is colored radish

and my mind it don't retain

 

I don't got no manners

an' I'd rather play with cars

I uses wrench and hammers

an' I likes to hang in bars

 

But when I 'as to write a note

to remind me what to buy

an' others see what I 'as wrote

they says you ain't no guy

 

I dot my I's with hearts

and make a little swirl

then I turns around and farts

and you know I aint' no girl

 

 

This is the funniest one you ever written! I love that. I'm going to add that to the FP poetry thread.

Simon, you have to publish a book.

[Scrawler]

  On 2/6/2010 at 6:54 AM, RitaCarbon said:

This is the funniest one you ever written! I love that. I'm going to add that to the FP poetry thread.

Simon, you have to publish a book.

I love this forum because people actually seem to like what I write. I am so glad I have found you people, you are all an inspiration to me. I love poetry as a form of self expression, because the stories I write can get turgid with detail, whereas with poetry, I can use the meter and take license with words. I was a bit worried about putting that one up, just in case it offended. There is no subject or form that I will not attempt. I have written quite a few privately, in PM's to people who have requested them. This whole subject of "girly" writing has just gotten me going, so I wanted to mock expectations of manliness. My poems are the only thing that I have, that I can give away. I hope that sometime in the near future I will have the time and leisure to assemble my notebooks full of verse. Some of it is not suitable for the younger members of this forum, particularly some of the Valentines Day gifts I have written. Did you see the little four liner I wrote to LeftyCalligrapher on page 5?

[RitaCarbon]

  On 2/6/2010 at 7:08 AM, Scrawler said:

  On 2/6/2010 at 6:54 AM, RitaCarbon said:

This is the funniest one you ever written! I love that. I'm going to add that to the FP poetry thread.

Simon, you have to publish a book.

I love this forum because people actually seem to like what I write. I am so glad I have found you people, you are all an inspiration to me. I love poetry as a form of self expression, because the stories I write can get turgid with detail, whereas with poetry, I can use the meter and take license with words. I was a bit worried about putting that one up, just in case it offended. There is no subject or form that I will not attempt. I have written quite a few privately, in PM's to people who have requested them. This whole subject of "girly" writing has just gotten me going, so I wanted to mock expectations of manliness. My poems are the only thing that I have, that I can give away. I hope that sometime in the near future I will have the time and leisure to assemble my notebooks full of verse. Some of it is not suitable for the younger members of this forum, particularly some of the Valentines Day gifts I have written. Did you see the little four liner I wrote to LeftyCalligrapher on page 5?

 

Oh, yes, it's a very smart poem. I wanted to add it to the FP Poetry, but it would be difficult to understand it without the whole thread and the post that you responded to.

 

You make us laugh, Scrawler. I almost fall from my chair reading your last one. Interesting, that the meter sometimes frees you from limitations of self-expression, no matter how paradoxical it may sound.

 

 

 

 

[mandarintje]

hehe brilliant poem!

[verdiinpink]

My discovery:

http://i690.photobucket.com/albums/vv263/verdiinpink/IMG_7635.jpg

[FooWriter]

  On 2/7/2010 at 3:37 PM, verdiinpink said:

My discovery:

Well done!

[Scrawler]

  On 2/7/2010 at 3:37 PM, verdiinpink said:

My discovery:

http://i690.photobucket.com/albums/vv263/verdiinpink/IMG_7635.jpg

This is magnificent. I am jealous of your skill, and the pens that guide your hands thus.

[lynxcat]

  On 2/7/2010 at 3:37 PM, verdiinpink said:

My discovery:

 

now that's what i can only wish i'd be able to do! congrats!

[Edgar Allan Bo]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/4337662504_514a00b851_o.png

 

This was the handwriting I used when I was told by various people (without asking them or in some cases even without knowing them)

that it looks girly... ("You're writing like a girl!")

Edited February 7, 2010 by Edgar Allan Bo

[Scrawler]

  On 2/7/2010 at 4:54 PM, Edgar Allan Bo said:

 

 

This was the handwriting I used when I was told by various people (without asking them or in some cases even without knowing them)

that it looks girly... ("You're writing like a girl!")

Beautiful.

[Edgar Allan Bo]

  On 2/7/2010 at 5:08 PM, Scrawler said:

  On 2/7/2010 at 4:54 PM, Edgar Allan Bo said:

 

 

This was the handwriting I used when I was told by various people (without asking them or in some cases even without knowing them)

that it looks girly... ("You're writing like a girl!")

Beautiful.

 

Thnx! That's probably what the others meant to say but didn't know the right word! So instead, it was "girly"...

[opus7600]

relevant article

[RitaCarbon]

  Edgar Allan Bo said:

This was the handwriting I used when I was told by various people (without asking them or in some cases even without knowing them)

that it looks girly... ("You're writing like a girl!")

 

Oh, no!!! Everyone can see - they were simply JELOUS!

Edited February 7, 2010 by RitaCarbon

[RitaCarbon]

  On 2/7/2010 at 5:19 PM, Edgar Allan Bo said:

  On 2/7/2010 at 5:08 PM, Scrawler said:

  On 2/7/2010 at 4:54 PM, Edgar Allan Bo said:

 

 

This was the handwriting I used when I was told by various people (without asking them or in some cases even without knowing them)

that it looks girly... ("You're writing like a girl!")

Beautiful.

 

Thnx! That's probably what the others meant to say but didn't know the right word! So instead, it was "girly"...

THAT'S IT!

[Pendragon]

  On 2/4/2010 at 12:20 AM, ateebtk said:

Hi all,

Time and time again, I have received comments like "hey your handwriting is soo girly". I'm not sure if they mean, neat or simply girly. I write cursive handwriting and try to add in fancy loops sometimes (ex. a cool looking "f", or starting "T" in a sentence with swirls ) . Its hard to explain . . .

 

If loops and swirls make writing feminine, then Platt Rogers Spencer must have been a chick.

 

  Quote

Q) In your opinion, what does it mean for a handwriting to be "manly" ?

 

- does it have to be NOT neat

- ur thoughts?

 

ATK

 

As others noted:

 

- Don't use pink ink

- Leave out the hearts and flowers

 

The notion of writing style as masculine or feminine strikes me as rather odd. Perhaps those criticizing your writing are insecure about their own masculinity?

[Kathelyne]

Funnily enough... that writing looks manly to me!

Maybe for boys with messy handwriting neat=girly.

[Feanor]

Bo, it's the curls on the caps, g, and y.

 

P.S. Did you hear, the last living speaker of the language "Bo" died last week. You used to share your name with a language, but now it's extinct.

[Feanor]

  On 2/7/2010 at 3:37 PM, verdiinpink said:

My discovery:

 

Incredible!

But how long did it take you to write? I used to know calligraphy styles like the last two but I could never write it that well, or fast at all.

[srspencer]

  On 2/5/2010 at 9:03 PM, ethernautrix said:

Write manly words.

 

 

Now you've come close to the Maryland State Motto: Fatti Maschi, Parole Femini. Translates roughly to Manly Deeds, Womanly Words. But wait, that's where we started, isn't it?

[RitaCarbon]

  On 2/8/2010 at 3:29 AM, srspencer said:

 

... the Maryland State Motto: Fatti Maschi, Parole Femini. Translates roughly to Manly Deeds, Womanly Words.

 

That's very interesting! Thank you for posting. Live and learn...