Man card

 As I carried in my laundry from the car in the rain, I realized I had two choices. I could cry about being single and having no one to help me, or I could be a man.

People these days make being a man something like a dirty word. They argue that you're not being in touch with your emotions or something, and it doesn't make things not hurt.

To be fair, it's not good to abuse someone and say "Man up." However, there's nothing wrong with telling yourself to man up.

Men had to use the man card when they built the first houses, ever since houses existed, and they couldn't cry about failing to build a house or having no one to help them build shelter. They did what had to be done, because they were men, and they had to get out of the weather.

A butler patiently endures abuse because he's a man, he's tough, and he can handle it. Plus he gets paid a lot, which helps.  When you're a boxer or a fire fighter, you gotta fight through the pain to do what needs to be done.  That's what being a man is about.

The man card is what you show yourself to remind yourself that you can endure difficulty without having to cry over every little thing.

Maybe it's not emotionally healthy, but it makes me feel better to say that I'm a tough man who can handle things on my own, than weep about nobody coming to help me.

If women want to take this idea and run with it, that's fine, but they already can take advantage of something men can't: Feminine charm.