#Gents I took active steps to reject my male privilege.

#DELIGHT I started writing weekly letters to my mom and grandmother to keep up and learn more about my family history.

#GENTS I learned how to change my own oil ( just have to remember not to wear a skirt when i do it)

#GENT. Went on a 5-day fishing trip. 3 cases of beer and no showers. ‘Nuff said!

Manicures and Pedicures. Happy. :)

#GENTS My blog shows both sides of my personality. Concrete and nail polish! That’s what I do. I paint my nails, ladylike, and I make concrete, manly.

#DELIGHT My blog shows both sides of my personality. Concrete and nail polish! That’s what I do. I paint my nails, ladylike, and I make concrete, manly.

#GENTS: I learned how to construct, tie and care for a man’s tie. You never know when it might come in handy!

#DELIGHT: I made a batch of cupcakes, iced them delicately and held a quaint teaparty for my ladies

#GENTS

Forgot to say Gents!

As part of my ongoing effort to look more gentlemanly, I:
1) Learned to tie a bow tie, well.
2) Made myself a pair of sleeve garters.

#GENTS I wrote a song about masturbation for my gf.

#gents: i remodeled my apartments kitchen all by myself.

#delight: i wear heels when i clean the house.

#DELIGHT I learned to get my baby niece to sleep

#GENTS before my parents remodeled the kitchen they decided they wanted to get rid of our old island, so i took it and turned it into the desk i use at school. perfectly sized and with all the old memories to boot

#GENTS showed up early for a date, so I wandered through my girlfriend’s (fancy) neighborhood picking flowers from yards. Surprised her at the door with a freshly filched bouquet and a kiss!

#delight
something ladylike i’ve done quite a bit this year is hold tea parties (with cupcakes) amongst girlfriends whenever we get downtime from school/work! :D

#gents
I opened the door for every girl that I took out on a date.

#delight

I straightened my hair.

#gents Cleaned the toilet

I shaved my legs, plucked my eyebrows, waxed my stache and put on makeup for my hubby, just because I wanted to look good for him in front of his friends. Now there’s a cold front…and I rue the day I denuded myself of my fluffy down.

#Gents - My wife has had a terrible month at the office, so I made sure to get home early as much as possible, cook and tidy for her to come home and relax…just for now that is.

#DELIGHT Pedicures. With the ladies.

#DELIGHT i kissed a girl and i liked it!

I grew a mustache, which in turn made the girl I love love me more, which led to this wedding. Yay mustache! http://www.verhext.com/ever-after

#GENTS every year all of the men in our group go to the woods for a whole weekend to basically act like Bear Grylls. Getting dirty, smelly and thus very manly during this period.

#GENTS Too easy. I regularly scratch inappropriate areas in mixed company.

#DELIGHT I have tidied small objects, freed them from dust without breaking them (well, most of them).

Enjoyed a champagne “high tea” on my birthday, with the ladies! #Delight

#DELIGHT - Well, mere hours ago I bought a jar of Mod Podge for some Christmas-present decoupaging.

Smoked a cigar, drunk a tall glass of Heffenwiezen beer, sat on the couch and watched sports

Gent - I went for a week without bathing on a camping trip in Utah. Maybe that’s not necessarily “manly” - but it sure didn’t feel ladylike.

#GENTS ~ I upgraded a laptop from xp to 7…not 100% manly but it was for my mother who questioned me throught the whole thing so it kinda like torchure i endured and i didn’t even cry

#GENTS caught a menacing mouse at my girlfriend’s apartment with my bare hands (and a tupperware container)

#DELIGHT There’s a famous quote that says “A lady always knows when to leave.” Last week I left my company Christmas Party without saying goodbye to anyone, and just before getting really (and un-cutely) drunk, and went home to watch a Charlie Brown Christmas, eat about 1.5 cups of raw holiday cookie dough…and makeout with my husband. So worth leaving for!

#GENTS: I grew my sideburns out, but kept them Oh-so-square.

#GENTS I’ve helped a good friend of mine by helping her move into her new house, doing wall repair, and helping her paint. I’ve also installed new network wiring in the walls in my house.

In the space of one month, I felled a tree and chopped it up for firewood, carried a washing machine up four flights of stairs and subsequently hooked it up, drank a beer and peed standing up.
Oh, and I have a beard.
#GENTS

#GENTS I learned how to shave my beard without cutting my neck area, around my adams apple.

I had a full on Tea Party with my niece and nephew— complete with a little table, little chairs, doilies, a little tea set and fancy lady-like hats

30th birthday Mustache Party —- everyone came with the biggest fanciest mustaches they could grow or make :)

#DELIGHT i shaved my legs.

#DELIGHT I bough high heels. Terribly uncomfortable things :|

#GENTS Changing the fuel pump on my 20 year old car..for the second time this year!

something i #DELIGHT this year is the fact that i began college and i couldn’t be happier about it.

#GENTS I took up carpentry and fabricated a desk and bookshelf based on something I saw on the blog

#delight Learned to sew

#GENTS As a lady, this year I have been working really hard at learning how to burp. Because I can’t. Not even accidentally. (Pointers are welcome, although I’ve probably heard them all before!)

# Delight - I made two advent calendars for my male roommates, it contains only chocolate (little santas, snowman) and is packed in the prettiest christmas paper. I think they didn’t really like the colors, but it is the thought that counts!

#DELIGHT I wore open toed heels for a night out with my friends even though it was freezing and there was snow on the ground. I didn’t regret it one bit because they were cute :)

Volunteered at a homeless shelter. #GENTS

#Gents Poured a 27’ long concrete foundation wall.

#Delight I renovated a kitchen, and repainted an apartment, choosing the colors (the kitchen is now pink :)

#GENT - I got to pour concrete again. I went back home and a friend needed help at his new home so I pulled the project together for him and had a blast pouring concrete for the first time in forever! I love doing that! Wish I could do it all the time.

As for something ladylike, I sat with my legs crossed at a meeting with the company’s COO instead of my usually feet shoeless and tucked up underneath my chair.

As for something gentleman-like, I have been helping my grandma sit down and get up, get in and out of cars, and open doors for her.

#GENTS I fixed my girlfriend’s garbage disposal.

#DELIGHT I learned how to salsa dance!

one of everything, please.

one of everything, please.

The last ladylike thing I recall doing this year was to not partake in office gossip. The most gentleman-like would be offering an older passenger my seat on the bus.

#GENTS Had my first experience with flooring. Removing the old linoleum and carpet, replacing them with hard wood and tile. Time: 80+ hours in one week, Cost: you don’t want to know, The satisfaction of seeing a project through beginning to end: priceless.

#Gents - I have helped a few stranded motorists this year. I try to help when I can because I have a long history of undeniable vehicles & have needed help many times & have rarely had people stop to help me.

I like to think that I’m a gentleman every day, but the last act would have to be when I helped shovel the entrance of our elderly neighbors home.

#GENTS I helped my mother-in-law build a deck in her backyard.

#DELIGHT I’ve been working on making complicated desserts to improve my cooking.

#GENTS I always give up my seat on a crowded bus or train, and always hold doors open

#GENTS I got a job fixing computers!

#DELIGHT I’ve taken to spending way more time in the kitchen!

#GENTS - Hunted wild boar with my brother in law for my bachelor party.

Hunted Wild Boars with my Brother in Law for my bachelor party.

Delight - In having to eat jelly and ice cream for a week after having my tonsils removed

#DELIGHT I used the right fork at the right time during fancy dinner!

#Gents - I always offer help whether it be help children, ladies, and friends and family, I’m always there

#Delight - I stood my ground in the face of a bully.

#gents

Built a tool shed for my father…

#GENTS I taught my son how to curse and how to stop cursing when a lady’s in the room.

#GENTS fixing, lots of fixing!

#GENTS I had left the office but saw that a professor had her hands full but kept walking out, I took like 5 steps out the door and realized I could help her, so I went back to open the door for her and helped her down the hall opening all the doors along the way.

#GENTS I grew out my facial hair into a massive unkempt beard.

Test firing the potato gun with my buds!

Built and upholstered my own couch – rawr!

DELIGHT I gave the ticle monster a good hiding and went for a pedicure.

#DELIGHT I finally treated myself to a little gift from jimmy jane after seeing the post on your site!!!

#GENTS Took down giant dead trees in my backyard.

#DELIGHT I flipped my hair thinking it’d impress a guy.

#GENT - Did a lot of building this year. :D I took apart an old school chair and built a new coffee table, built a bookshelf for my wall, and put together bookshelves for several of the classrooms where I work. (I suppose the last isn’t really manly, but it’s the gentlemanly thing to do for the hard working women in our lives, right?)

#DELIGHT Learned how to make a mean and very dirty martini.

#DELIGHT I learned to shoot a rifle (at clay pigeons) for the first time ever!

#DELIGHT
‘Ladylike’ is generally a stretch for me (until the day burping contests become ladylike) but this year, during the summer, I bought real (expensive) makeup for the first time, including all the brushes and tools, and I’ve been using them!

#GENT

-grew a beard (did not last long) -drank copious amounts of beer -burped in quiet places

Well, I always open and close the passenger side door of my car for ladies. This dates back to when I drove another car where the door did not close properly, so I’m not sure how you judge this behaviour.

#DELIGHT I learned (finally) how to apply liquid eyeliner. What a task!
And then normal girly things such as: sewed dresses, baked cakes, made countless dinners…

#DELIGHT I made cupcakes for two of my classes, and three separate times for my internship (:

#DELIGHT I took sewing lessons and started sewing my own skirts!

#Gents I got married earlier this year.

#DELIGHT I knit baby knits for an expecting friend.

#GENTS: I watched every Die Hard movie in one sitting.

#DELIGHT I’ve been trying to get my sister to join my sorority on campus!

#DELIGHT I knit a scarf! (It was a little lopsided….)

#GENTS. I helped an elderly woman cross the street.

#GENTS Had a manly drink and fixed my tv.

#DELIGHT Made tons of baked goods for my friends.

#DELIGHT I’ve gotten back into Japanese Lolita fashion! Bows and frills, oh my!

#GENTS: I met the woman of my dremas.

#GENTS I built almost every bit of furniture in my new apartment, dominated my fantasy football league, went to every Ravens homegame (even if it meant travelling hundreds of miles or sitting in the freezing cold for three hours), and I have been successfully educating my roommate about football, beer and military history.

#DELIGHT I baked a Jameson pumpkin cheesecake, wore an apron and all. My best dessert yet.

#DELIGHT - I made baked good for my elderly neighbors. Dear NotCot Santa, I’ve been good I swear.

I grew a beard, just so I could look the part of a lumberjack when I had to cut firewood for this winter?

#GENTS I put a beast in my belly

#DELIGHT got my make up done professionally for a wedding (and looked like a fashionable raccoon)

#DELIGHT Fell in love with an abandoned kitty my coworker brought to work. I adopted “Tiger” who is now safe at home growing up to be a happy cat. Girls - we always fall for cute furry animals.

These are amazing gifts and so inspired to get the men in my life some of these awesome options!

#GENTS I shaved because my mother asked me to do so.

#DELIGHT I wrote thank you notes to people who attended a party (regardless of the gift) for coming to the party - their company was the best present.

#DELIGHT I switched from PBR to wine (big step)

#GENTS despite no thanks and not even an acknowledgment, I opened and held (for an unusually long time) the door open for a set parents and their baby. They were lost in discussion with each other. I’d do it again and for any parents.

#DELIGHT- The most ladylike thing I’ve done all year is put on heels. Nevermind that I then proceeded to fall down the stairs.

#GENTS I stopped shaving in September. I have no need for a scarf this winter.

Oh yes please! Two great gift shops!

#DELIGHT stop swearing (almost)

#GENTS

Chose a diamond engagement ring (of the right size), took my fiancee to Paris, got down on one knee after lunch on a bright, warm Saturday afternoon whilst opposite the Eiffel Tower and proposed.

And then got married at the zoo later in the year. Huzzah!

#GENTS I opened a load of doors for a load of ladies. Much appreciated.

#Gents - My lady and I went out into the bush and I cut down our Christmas tree with a saw.

#Delight - I have attempted to turn my potty mouth around and now swear around 75% less than I used to. Working on 100% no swears. “Its just not becoming” is what my mother would say.

A true lady conducts herself with dignity and respect, and does not suffer for herself or her friends to be degraded by rude people.This year I promised myself I wouldn’t sit by and watch my friends be the victims of passive aggression, or let myself be treated like a moron on the basis I work at a coffee shop. I wasn’t always good at it, but I was polite everytime

#GENTS
I salvaged an old chair and made it the star of my living room (bright yellow paint job!).

#DELIGHT…I got a head start on an artsy-craftsy, homemade gift for my boyfriend’s birthday.

#DELIGHT im part quitting my job to work part time next year to concentrate on the house, the dog and hopefully a baby.

I made my woman a coffee table with my bare hands, which are rough and calloused.

#GENTS my husband and i built a 12 seat dining room table out of deck lumber, stained and polyurethaned it looks as good as one purchased from the store.

#GENTS I re wired a a broken spark plug from a motorbike which crashed with no tools.Only using keys and a rock.

#GENTS I quit my 9-5 and started working for myself.

#DELIGHT I started reading home decorating and DIY blogs to inspire me to improve our new house.

#gents always do the dishes after the holiday dinner…with a couple beers close by.

#Delight- I made and canned my own apple butter this year and gave it out as gifts.

#DELIGHT I bought shoes with heels and actually wore them!! was very proud of myself.

I think it’s pretty manly that I figured out how to fix my laptop when it didn’t work, I totally solved it alone though it wasn’t easy, without any real help from real men :D

I also made a cute shelf of wood for my spices (okay my father helped me with this but I actually cut, sawed, painted and put it together with my really girly hands :)

#GENTS manicured neighbor’s bush

this year I managed to wear skirt and high heels a few times even though I almost never do :P

#DELIGHT: I picked up a little sister. Living in Kathmandu, I’ve started sponsoring a girl to go to school. Her English is getting better much faster than my Nepali, but there’s still a huge barrier, so we mostly communicate by laughing and dancing to Bollywood songs. Teaching her to hula-hoop, buying necessary underclothes discreetly on Nepali streets… reminds me that sisterdom is quite possibly the best part of being a lady.

Me, me, me! I want to win!

#DELIGHT I learnt crochet all by myself. My friends tell me that this particular hobby is not befitting to my personality but _LADYLIKE_ definitely!

#GENTS venturing outside in the great DC blizzard of 2010.

#GENTS I donated a kidney to a sick boy after wrestling a 25ft prehistoric crocodile and fighting off a rabid silver back gorilla that were trying to burn a box full of kittens and puppies. (seems i forgot the #gents before)

#GENTS This year, I traveled out West, climbed a mountain shirtless, and rock-climbed across Utah. It has been a good year.

#DELIGHT I went and got my first pedicure ever and I am 28 years old. Thanks for the great giveaway :)

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#GENTS I punched a walrus that looked at me

#GENTS I rewired a plug.

#Delight I hand stitched a thirties style cape.

This year, I bought a matching scarf, gloves, and handbag that reminds me of my grandmother. She always used to wear gloves before going out of the house. Now, I remember her every time I put them on!

#DELIGHT Bought Pot Pourri, that middle England housewives favourite. I’m 23. Does smell lovely though.

#DELIGHT This year I stopped cutting my hair radically short and now I wear it with a headband. Much more ladylike. Before I looked like a militant feminist, and now I look like a secret feminist!

#GENTS - I push started my friends cars for him in the snow, we tried to an hour then some nice people came and helped. We all felt manly afterwards.

#Gents. I stacked a cord of firewood this weekend, so i can keep my girlfriend warm this winter.

#Gents I smoked a cigar in a white tux on new years last year.

purchasing letterpress thank you cards and actually mailing them out…

I felt like a gentleman when I pulled over to help 3 elderly ladies change their flat tire (even though I am a 22 year old girl!)

#DELIGHT I made tiramisu from scratch for my dad’s birthday, hand whipped cream, egg yolks, marsala wine, espresso, lady fingers…the works

#GENTS put a butt load of IKEA furniture together

#DELIGHT bought IKEA curtains that were too long, so i cut about 4” off and then used the iron to heat up that strip that came with it to make it stick together.

#GENTS I decided to try baking for the first time this year, and baked some kickass pillow cookies. You just cannot get manlier than that. Seriously.

#delight
Everything I do is ladylike? What is un-ladylike???

#DELIGHT I’ve tried to wear dresses twice a week this year, and I’ve been baking lots of bread from scratch.

heyo!

#DELIGHT I baked a pie!

#GENTS help my elderly neighbor to carry up groceries up to the 4th floor several times a week. she just rings my doorbell and i know exactly who it is.

#GENTS I admitted that I couldn’t do something without my girlfriend, she just smiled and hugged me.

#GENTS Received my first hot towel shave at the barbershop.

#GENTS - I went to the Thunder Dome at Burning Man this year.

#GENTS, built a walk in closet for my wife.

#GENTS knocking back a bottle of rum and sailing around the coastal islands.

#gents I like gadgets… and scotch.

#DELIGHT i have expanded my apron collection!

#GENTS I try and hold the door open for anyone coming in right after me. Life is too short to just rush through doors.

#GENTS
I’ve got a night at the hotel for my girlfriend’s birthday. She tough I paid for the small kind.. nop. I got us a suite. She was very surprise, and this is where she saw the Gorillaz tickets across the bottle of wine. ^____^ Of course, we did have a lot of fun that week-end.

#GENTS - Got the whiskey rocks for the room mate last year and they are killer

delight - glittery red nail polish for the holiday party

#GENTS I do all the handiwork around this place.

#GENTS - Learned to tie a bow tie.

#DELIGHT Bought a kitchen aid mixer and made a lot of cakes

#DELIGHT i’m making porcelain bowls for my whole family for christmas! :-)

#GENTS Manly? does wrestling alligators count? Just kidding about the alligators, but I did drive a tractor this year.

#DELIGHT I provided a cheese platter and sandwiches at a hungover bloody mary event.

Wore bright red lipstick, just because.

#GENTS
Something manly/gentlemanly I’ve done this year is… I’ve been growing out my handlebar moustache (12-14” end to end) with the Austin Facial Hair Club to compete in the 2011 Beard and Moustache Championships in Norway (May 2011)! We’re holding many different fund-raising events to raise money to fly our members over to compete and represent Austin, Texas, and the USA.

#GENTS I took my grandmother out for a surprise dinner (honestly, her surprise/excitement made it all worth it many times over!)

#GENTS ‘Twas a wet afternoon the one in which I took off my sports coat to place it over a shallow pothole which a lady thereafter crossed. Really.

#GENTS - Built my lady a bicycle, just so we could ride together.

I need i need … either

#Gents - I got a girl pregnant at my Bar Mitzvah.

Wore high-heels in a dusty [therefore slippery] factory: Oh my!

#GENTS I used a power tool. Masterfully.

#DELIGHT I learned how to make fresh marshmallows!

#Gents - I became…a man.

#GENTS Though I’m a lady, I’m shopping for the gents! But the most gentlemanly thing I’ve done this year is carrying groceries for an elderly neighbor when she goes shopping!

#GENTS I took the initiative on introducing a comprehensive career search program to Richmond, VA. I teach new leaders as well as the course. About 100 people have benefited from it so far, with more to come.

#GENTS Chopped wood waring plaid. Pretty darn manly.

#Gents Wear a Sam Elliott style mustache year round. Once saved a little girl from a rabid dog.

#gent - I said Maam and Thank You and sir all 365 days of the year! And I’m 40!

#GENTS This year I always carried the bags for my girl, even the lightest, even the heaviest.

#GENTS I may be a girl, but I took my guy friends out for a drink and paid AND was complimented as a true gentlewoman. :)

#DELIGHT I started painting my nails frequently! This had to stop when my life was getting too busy, sadly. But tis the season now and I’ll get to pamper myself again.

#GENTS This has been a rough year - layoff, sick dad, mortgage problems - and I’ve taken it like a man.

#DELIGHT i learned how to sneeze silently! never have I felt more ladylike than when I had to sneeze in class and did so delicately. no one noticed!

#GENTS I bought a mototcycle!

#DELIGHT I got to pick out my bridesmaid dress for my brothers wedding! I also do some fantastically traditional (for a 22 year old) crafts; tatting, knitting, crocheting, embroidery.

#GENTS Bought a tuxedo.

#DELIGHT I bought my first dress in years and wear it every chance I get

#Gents - I have maintained a Chuck Norrisesque beard for 11 months and 7 days

#DELIGHT … died my hair pink and lavender, it’s lovely

#GENTS i designed an laser engraved a fantasy football trophy for one of my leagues this year. AND i planted 4 trees in my yard just this last weekend. yardwork and fantasy football— very manly, no?

#DELIGHT i sewed together some polka dotted cloth napkins and a table runner this year.

#DELIGHT I was the hostess of a classy wine & dessert party at my new apartment, and baked homemade cookies and cake!

#DELIGHT I’ve been wearing my grandmother’s with gloves out and around town (in part because I have no others!)

#DELIGHT baked 50 mini-muffin sized pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving. :)

#DELIGHT Crossed my legs.

#GENTS Started my own t-shirt company!

#GENTS I have decided to bring back chivarly. Standing up everytime a women leaves a table, opening doors and walking on the roadside.
Little steps to bring a touch of style and class

#GENTS Decided to approach my divorce with grace, respect, and trust rather than anger and bitterness.

After 22 years of marriage, words cannot encompass how I feel about her leaving, but this is the man I’d rather remember myself as in the years to come.

lovely!

#delight- I wore a pretty new dress to a wedding, and danced at the reception.

#DELIGHT handwritten thank you notes.

#GENTS I’ve essentially taught myself how to actually cook by learning a new recipe each week for the past six months.

#DELIGHT Officially memorized my grandmothers cookie recipe to bake for my family!

#DELIGHT I did my part in supporting equal rights as a member of my universities women’s empowerment organization. I helped raise awareness of the prevalence of sexual assault and abuse against women. Furthermore, I was a leader in the organization of a Take Back the Night rally in which women are empowered to speak out about their experiences with the issue of sexual assault and rape.

Sounds ladylike to me.

#GENTS I got a custom made shirt so that I now look like a gentleman.

#delight! I rode my bike in a skirt without flashing anyone AND managed to refrain from unleashing any snot rockets on the unsuspecting lane of traffic next to me. That is probably the single most ladylike thing I will ever manage to do.

#GENTS

I watched a lot of football.

#Gents
Changed a car battery, resurfaced a desk, um… nothing too manly but I suppose. Besides once you reach a certain level its nice to have such things done.

#Delight
How is this; for a lost bet, I pampered my wife for the day. This included any chores, massages and errands she needed done. But I suppose the key to this was I painted her nails (the quality was so bad, the next day she was at the nail salon).

#gents Built custom furniture for myself…I love learning new skills…

#GENTS Wore a skirt and loved it.

#GENTS at my gf’s company holiday party, we met up with a few of her coworkers ive never met before. The venue was packed and no free seats were in close proximity for one of her friends. So I went around looking for an empty seat. First one I found, a group claimed it even tho they were also not sure what to do with it. Then I found another. It’s weight shouldve been enough to tell me it was meant to be moved but i took it anyway and brought back to the table. They were very happy and told my gf i was a keeper. Shucks.

#GENTS I set a stone walkway.

I donated a kidney to a sick boy after wrestling a 25ft prehistoric crocodile and fighting off a rabid silver back gorilla that were trying to burn a box full of kittens and puppies.

#DELIGHT Hand-sewed a quilt for my bed.

#GENTS made a great meal from my family.

#DELIGHT I threw a dinner party and I cooked everything myself while wearing a dress and heels

#delight Tried to figure out how to use eyeliner…

#GENTS - I used a steamroller to print a giant lino-cut!

#GENTS I fell for my best friend, but helped him find somebody else to love. Maybe not manly or gentlemanly, but kind, in a self-inflicted-pain sort of way.

#Gents
Arm wrestled 5 of my guys friends and beat them all. ;)

#GENTS I taught friends the joys of the Side Car cocktail!

#Delight: I painted my bedroom pink!

Something ladylike i have done this year is made my own face mask

#DELIGHT I stopped using the word yeah, replacing it with the more ladylike ‘yes’.

#Gents well for this one girl I sent her a CD and a painted her the box inside because she wasn’t have the best of weeks.

#DELIGHT I received a pedicure this year.

#GENTS This year I brewed my own beer for the first time.

the most ladylike thing i did this year was crafting my entire wedding all by myself, flowers, dresses (including my own), signs. it was perfect!

#GENTS This year, my man and I went up to Vermont and spent a week trying out local brews. For Christmas, I’ve bought him a home brewing kit because of how much he enjoyed it. It’s one of those perfect gifts that keeps giving.

#DELIGHTS I wore grandmother’s dress from the 50’s, did my own hair ‘a la’ Jane and threw a Mad Men Premiere party where I served my homemade deviled eggs and pigs in a blanket on dainty cloth napkins alongside whiskey and old fashioned’s for the ladies and gents. All guests came ready for throw back food and drinks in their best Man Men era get-ups. It was a success!

#DELIGHT This year, I graduated with a professional degree in architecture… it’s easy to be ladylike when you’re outnumbered 8 to 1.

I held the door for a little old lady.

#DELIGHT I sewed a strapless dress to wear dancing.

mee mee mee!

#GENTS Having had no previous bartending experience, I enrolled in an intensive 30-day course, designed specifically for professional bartenders, solely for the purpose of making better drinks at home for my wife and friends.

#DELIGHT: I cut myself some bangs…terrifying but totally worthwhile!

#GENTS I bought my first lawnmower.

#DELIGHT I learned how to frost cupcakes and used a sewing machine for the first time.

I rushed out from a grocery store to give a couple cartons of milk to an elderly lady after she had forgotten them in the store. She then thanked me, blessed me, and promptly asked me out on a date.

#GENTS My new favorite shirt is a men’s flannel.

#DELIGHT I’ve redecorated 3 houses this year!

#DELIGHT Went to a beer festival

#DELIGHT

I shipped myself some gourmet Vosges chocolates and ate them in a steaming bubble bath!

#DELIGHT
Had girls night out!

#GENTS I treated my mom to a week-long b&b getaway in upstate New York.

#GENTS I saved a baby from a burning building and then held the door for her on the way in to the news studio for her interview

# DELIGHT ,I Am A 28 yr old.Mother Of 5 boys and a wife,i Cook ,Clean,do everyday chores,and most of all I love To Bake for my lil men,with all these boys in the house ,I still get pedicures which is a must and manicures and I love to take them shopping.I am and always will be lady like

#DELIGHT- This year I planned a wedding, finished my last semester of school, worked and studied for the LSAT all during a three month period of time. I think I used my feminine quality of multi-tasking to its greatest length, plus everything turned out more beautiful than I could have hoped.

#GENTS I grew a manly mustache for Movember to raise money for prostate cancer!

I got a guy kicked out of my co-op for feeling up a girl while she was sleeping. #GENTS

#Gent- I put together furniture, changed my brakes, held the door, and avoided conflick when my roommate decided to steal my significant other, I was even kind to them when they broke up.

#GENTS Two days ago I brought my car to a screeching hault when I saw a motorcyclist get thrown from his bike on the freeway. I was the first one to run up to him and ask if he could tell me what his name was. I feel kinda bad for yelling at my mom to call 911.

#DELIGHT- i curtsy for strangers

#DELIGHT I made thanksgiving dinner.

Is tea ladylike? I’ve had a lot of tea this year.
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#GENTS I grew my beard out

#GENTS I watched part of a football game on Thanksgiving :P

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Last night @ 3am: After working a ten hour day..Pushed the neighbor’s pizza delivery car 1/4mile out of our snowy street, received four free pizza coupons, then woke up only two hours later to work another 9 hour day. Working 3 jobs, 7 days a week saving for an engagement ring, so things like this happen often.

#GENT watched the entire series of “Gilmore Girls” >__

#DELIGHT As of this year I am now the proud owners of a pair of black classic (sexy) pumps

#GENTS Learned to make a mean loaf of bread.

I bought some manly, high end, guns and put together a grab-and-go survival pack.

I made french toast cupcakes and shared them with the servers at my favorite bar.

#DELIGHT I baked fruitcakes for my family for xmas!

#DELIGHT I read Jeanette Winterson’s “Written on the Body” and cried at the last page.

#Gents I must have helped ladies move ten times this year.

#Delight. I threw a glass of champagne in a man´s face and sauntered off after I was told that women couldn´t drive.

#DELIGHT I started buying cute stickers and stationary sets to mail to my two best friends whom have moved away this summer. I take my time decorating them =) one with pink and cloths because she loves it and the other with art and things modern cause it’s her study.

#DELIGHT I started wearing gloves when not totally necessary. It’s amazingly girly and fabulous!

#DELIGHT - Researched and handmade 24 of my own scented bath bombs(complete with sparkles!)

#GENTS i created a brick firepit in my friend’s back yard and chopped fallen wood from a nearby forest by hand axe.

#DELIGHT - I just got dressed up in high heels, a dress, and makeup for a wedding!

#GENTS I got really into drinking.

Changed the tire of a stranger on the highway while it was raining.

#DELIGHT I got really into baking.

I got married.

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-I cooked my thanksgiving dinner
-I cried at a chick flick
-I used feminine tricks to get free things
-I took the more respectful route and hooked up my ex boyfriend with my friend because she was lonely.

#DELIGHT: For thanksgiving, I gave manicures to my mom and best friends :)and baked succesful raspberry souffle for them because i am thankful to have them in my life

#Gents:
I eat faster than any guy I know
I play Videogames. (COD preferably)
I surf
I have never painted my nails
I go camping
I love scotch and whiskey
_I’m still a lady though. :)

I took a 18-year old family friend’s daughter, who had just moved from a sheltered existence in Ohio to Los Angeles, for a full makeover: hair, makeup, accessories, clothes. Right-sized her fashion sense to edgy fashion-forward adulthood but honored her love of skulls and black (just like me).

#GENTS Cut a piece of metal with a plasma and write my name…. hell yeah!!!

#DELIGHT i learned to cook more. Made my first turkey at thanksgiving. made marshmallows and caramels too :) feel more like my grandma :)

AND… the most manly thing I’ve done this year… I set aside a car project that I started in 2009 and said I would finish this year.. that’s a pretty manly thing to do, right? Keep unfinished projects sitting around in the garage or driveway? #GENTS

#DELIGHT Often accused of having a heart of stone, I bawled like a baby when someone I love left me this year and then proceeded to stalk him and all his lady friends online, look through old photos and letters and replay conversations in my head and write sappy emails that I never actually sent out. Hah.. let’s see them say I have the heart of a man now!

#DELIGHT Went to the spa for facial treatements.

#GENTS Backpacked through Egypt.

#DELIGHT: Bought myself a really girly overcoat that I’m going to wear with high heels.

#GENTS - I remodeled my kitchen. It took me about 3 months to finish it completely (could only work on the weekends) but it was quite a satisfying experience to do all the work myself.

#DELIGHT I hand made pie crust and then then apple filling. Using a rolling pin in the *proper* way is quite lady-like!

#GENTS I was told that I was ‘a good man’ by a woman after she saw me confront three teenagers who had forced another younger boy into their car.

It turned out he was their younger brother and was just being dificult, so I didn’t exactly feel that manly.

#DELIGHT Well- I have begun crafting a lot- I’ve made tiny little glow in the dark earrings with cute little gems ans I’ve also taken to making handmade books with cute ornamental origami covers! I feel like quite the lady~!

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#GENTS For the past few years I have looked around me at the state of my own generation and feel nothing but sense of sadness and even disgust. I look at generations past and see men behaving like men, and more specifically, like gentlemen. They respected their parents, their friends, and even total strangers. They dressed properly and spoke properly. They treated women with the utmost regard and they taught their children the same. These days I see guys of my own generation (I’m soon to be 28) frumping about in t-shirts that are three sizes too large with their pants down to their knees. They treat women with little more regard than they did on the playground. What it comes down to is that they have failed to grow up. They’re just lazy.

Thus, a few years ago, I began slowly molding myself into the image of a gentleman. It’s an ongoing process, but from my wardrobe to, most importantly, my respect for others, I am embracing what it means to be man in the 21st century. I am far from perfect, but I try…which is more than I can say for others of my own generation.

#GENTS - I hung many a shelf if my apartment as well as hanging my 46” flat screen on my wall with metal studs no less.

I literally and truly killed a 315lbs black bear, in North Carolina.

#Gent I really really loved a woman.

#GENTS - I demolished an old chicken coop with a sledgehammer!

#DELIGHT Kept the dustbunnies down to a soft roar

#DELIGHT - I walked 60 miles over 3 days to fight breast cancer!

#DELIGHT I learned how to make apple pie

#GENTS I learned how to tie a bow tie and how to give a proper wedding speech.

#GENTS I sewed cafe curtains for my kitchen window…in a print of little white Datsuns on black linen.

#DELIGHT I sewed cafe curtains for my kitchen window.

#GENTS I grew a full moustache this year and started using Groom & Clean.

#DELIGHT i quit burping.

I made Thanksgiving dinner for my family.. that’s pretty ladylike, right? #DELIGHT

#GENTS - I’ve discovered the joy of fatherhood and caring for an infant.

#DELIGHT - This year, I’ve learned to keep unkind thoughts to myself.

#GENTS- My husband did the manliest thing this year by being the greatest and most helpful person for my whole family after the passing of my father. He was the executive assistant everytime the phone rang and we weren’t up to talking and fixing all the little household fixes around the house that my father would’ve done. It still chokes me up when I realize he is the greatest husband in the world.

#GENTS I helped install a lexan windshield in my friends drift car and offroaded my jeep in the woods.

#GENTS I bought a tobacco pipe and smoked it on my sailboat with a glass of whiskey

Love those Rocks.

#GENTS I would guess the most manly/gentlemanly thing I’ve done this year is I bought a proper pair of wingtip boots. Wait … surely I’ve done something more manly …. hmmmm. I guess that accomplishes both manly and gentlemanly in one fell swoop though. OK I’ll leave it at that.

-A

#GENTS Became a Ravens fan and started watching football regularly for the first time in years.

#DELIGHT Made my home more guest-friendly with lovely vintage table and barware and throws. I shall be a gracious hostess!

#DELIGHT My daughter attempted to breast feed on me (dad). I guess that’s about the most ladylike thing I’ve done.

-A

#GENTS — I hauled 4,000+ lbs. of concrete mix bags in a manual-transmission dump truck and loaded and unloaded them myself.

#GENTS - Had my first 3 piece suit tailored in Shanghai whilst there. I am now a proper gentleman.

#GENTS I tossed a 50lb. tire 400m. in 6 minutes and 42 seconds! Then I ate a radnormous hamburger and rounded out the night by rubbing my wife’s feet while watching Conan the Barbarian.

#GENTS I went to the gym and then had a beer afterwards.

#DELIGHT - I had facial, manicure and pedicure

#GENTS - I had facial manicure and pedicure

#GENTS Carried and used a pocketknife.

#GENTS I carved the Thanksgiving turkey for the first time (is that manly or is it just my family where mom always cooks and dad always carves?)

#DELIGHT the most ladylike thing (and the best thing) i’ve done this year is quit smoking!

#DELIGHT I bought and actually did wear once my first stilleto shoes.

#DELIGHT When my lease was up, I left my house in better shape than when I got it. That’s the one thing I learned camping in Girl Scouts: to leave a place in the same or better shape than when you arrived!

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Well, I grew a beard and began wearing bowties (real ones) and assumed myself as an old-fashioned guy with my jazz and everything.

#DELIGHT - I’m learning to be a girl and have (1) learned how to put my hair up in a bun so I don’t look like a ponytailed slob at work (courthouse) and (2) finally bought a dress for dressy events like weddings.

#GENT - I also started shaving with a safety razor, since shaving had been so frustrating for me otherwise, which seems to be more on the manly side of things.

#GENTS i sent this entire past weekend pickling and canning the hottest, most explosive fiery habanero dill pickles one can imagine! anyone who gets a jar of these for the Holidays might be sorry they did after eating one!

#GENTS - Built a bed-frame and coffee table for a lady-friend in need of cheap, decent furniture.

#DELIGHT I have stayed with my elderly father and made him dinners this year when my mother left. Ladylike like in the Victorian era!

#GENTS ~ Ate more red meat and drank more whiskey than before while punching Vin Diesel and Chuck Norris in the face while howling at a wolf who was howling at the moon… without a shirt on.

I purchased a Dewalt hand drill and used it!

Purchased overpriced undergarmets.

#DELIGHT - I apply ideas I have learned from my parents by having good manners, always being polite and think of others. Social courtesy and consideration can go a long way. Thanks to my parents for teaching me those basics of etiquette!

I ate raw meat and chugged whiskey while punching Vin Diesel in the face and howling at the moon… without a shirt on.

#DELIGHT I quit smoking!

I’ve used lots of power tools & woodworking skills—including the recent revamping of some old library catalogs i purchased. I’ve convinced my man to wear more bowties and ties and i’ve also started wearing some bowties (i made some old bowties into bracelets). :)

#GENTS ~ I took up the practice of enjoying port and cigars after particularly standout meals.

#GENTS I was finally able to grow facial hair and I shaved it off with a broken whiskey bottle.

#GENTS Treat with kindness and dignity everyone.

#GENTS The most manly thing I’ve done is make women feel good about themselves.

Something ladylike that I’ve done this year was sewing my own hounds tooth bubble skirt.

#GENTS ~ I did a lot of hiking this year which always makes me feel pretty manly. Namely, climbed up the sheerest face of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia NP.

When I got robbed in Barcelona, I ran after the guy who was on the bike and snatched my bag back. Definitely felt manly, even though I’m a girl :)

#DELIGHT sewed newborn baby kimonos for my neices!

#GENTS I grew a beard and learned how to rewire a lamp ;)

#Gents: I became a father for the second time this year :)

#DELIGHT This year I stopped drinking! Since it had previously caused me to do not so “ladylike things [peeing in streets, throwing up, yelling at people, making out with randoms etc etc]. Now when I go out I am in full control, fully composed and a proper lady-and still oozes of fun!

#GENTS I peed standing up while drinking a beer from one hand and firing a crossbow with the other.

#DELIGHT A lady should always be polite, refined, and considerate of others. That’s why this year, I’ve started saying “excuse me” on the subway platforms of New York. It actually works!

I think manners go a long way. Especially in today’s society manners can really make a person stand out. As a lady who likes lady-like things and decorum, I have made a great effort to improve my manners and look forward to that being an ongoing project!

I grew at least six more hairs on my chest this year

Buckyballs, here I come!

#GENTS I helped my friend out the water after trying to kill themselves, then I kindly carried her to hospital!

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grown a beard

#GENTS I carried 2 suitcases from the train for a young lady.

#DELIGHT I’m a MAN, and I just mustered up the courage to wear tights over, not under, a pair of Alexander McQueen heels, get my makeup done complete with lipstick and do a photo shoot all girly feeling deep inside :P

#DELIGHT watched the entire series of “That Girl” :)

#DELIGHT I sit with my legs crossed and my back straight. Book a top my head, anyone?

#DELIGHT I bought my first pair of expensive shoes, with visions of professionalism dancing in my head. No more cracked pleather for me.

Well, I’m going to a holiday tea in a couple weeks!

#DELIGHT I got married! By far and away the girliest and most ladylike I’ve ever been… My hair was pretty, I was wearing a green silk frock with pink petticoats and very high heels. I had make-up and pearl jewellery and painted toenails. I was even wearing a veil, which has to be the epitome of ladylike! In contrast my day-to-day clothing consists of jeans, converse and a t-shirt. I don’t blow dry my hair and I hardly ever wear make-up. I plan on being ladylike again one day, but not for a while - it’s really hard work!

#GENTS I’ve been working out… put on 5 lbs. of muscle this year, weighting in at 155 lbs. hoo raw.

#GENTS Had a poo in the woods

Had a poo in the woods

#GENTS Started home brewing and restored a vintage 1952 refrigerator and converted it into the coolest kegerator ever.

I love Delight! I ordered the whiskey stones for my husbands 30th this year.

Wore my first man-thong!

#DELIGHT “Luck be a lady tonight!” I would say the most ladylike thing I’ve done this year is get married! ;)

My fight delayed for another 2 hours do to weather complications drove me to the sudden urge to explore the densly corwded airport, what was at the time the biggest airport i had ever been in. In desperation of frootless seach in a bar that may have some resembense of mexico, a few more random turns then i made it to a small hispanic looking bar. As i opened the door for a lady behind me, the very young lady, her eyes of the most beautyfull shade of brown topaz and skin ever so slightly sun kissed walked on passed me. As she walks past me in to the bar, our eyes met for just a fraction of time then she dissapired in to the crowd. That night i got waisted, mugged twice as i tried to catch a taxi in foreing language i did’nt know, and slept by a dumpster where i would later that morning wake up to the most lovely sounds of all, a hooker and a hobo having sex across the ally i slept in. On the bright side, i now get to tell my story only hours away from my actual wedding day, my wedding day i so longed for. I am the luckyest man in the world, i get to walk down the ile only to meet that still bright and beautifull lady we once shared a split second that suck with both of us for 15 years until this very day.

I can’t say that i’ve done anything particularly gentlemanly this year. I think it’s best to continue to be a gentleman all year long. (pulling out chairs, opening doors, offering your jacket to someone colder than you…these things aren’t that hard to do, so why wouldn’t you?)

#GENTS Not just manly, I felt I became a man when I went back to a job I didn’t think I could handle mentally anymore, tore down all our miscommunications and drove it toward something positive and securing a better future for me and mine next year. All while breaking in my new jeans no less.

i think i bought a dress this year. i also put on lipgloss once..

#Gents: I joined secret service at MI6 and saved the queen from steeping on a puddle of mud with my 2k leather jacket.. With queen i mean my fiance, with a 2k jacket meaning that we went around and with MI6 meaning that we are going to get married next month :D shhh keep my secret..

#GENTS Something manly, I started volunteering as a coordinator for a Men’s group, doing activities like fishing, hiking and barbeques for men with mental illness.

#GENTS built a seesaw at an orphanage

#DELIGHT got a mani/pedi

#DELIGHT This year I dedicated lots of time to my girl friends and transformed the concept of “me-time” into “us-time”.

Look, its my birthday December 9th. Leaving comments, however creative, has never worked so far, so im just hoping that maybe youll take my special day into consideration and let me win. thanks

#Delight I wore a pashmina.

#DELIGHT This year I bought my first proper designer bag, which was such a major deal for me that I left my card in the till after paying.

This year I wall papered my kitchen in a sweet, 60’s inspired floral print.

#GENTS I’ve tried to maintain a gentleman-ly lifestyle by dressing like a gentlemen and practicing chivalry everyday.

#DELIGHT I am a man that got a manicure this year…don’t tell anyone though

#GENTS I held a door open for an old lady. Pretty classic gentlemanly stuff.

#DELIGHT I’ve learned to cook something edible and didn’t lose composure when I saw a mouse.

As far as manliness goes, I got my wife pregnant on the first try! Little girl on the way!

#DELIGHT “Ladylike” seems a bit ambiguous and loaded, but I will say that to me, twirling around a parasol that was a birthday gift. I felt very dainty and pretty all summer with its pretty lace! :)

#DELIGHT: I jumped from the sartorial word of casual tomboyishness into leggings and dresses.

#DELIGHT This year I bought a vintage Chanel necklace for a friend! Sooooo pretty and so feminine. She loves it.

#GENTS I bought my first ever custom tailored suit. Yes it was reeaaly hard to justify and I was terrified at the first fitting session but now I look all classical and manly in a beautiful suit.

#DELIGHT I adopted a shelter dog with separation anxiety. I changed my lifestyle for her, but she has changed me!

#GENTS I stopped a fight in the street. I felt manly after that.

#DELIGHT This year is when I bought my first designer bag that started my obsession.

#DELIGHT I took a Cupcakes Culinary Class, how girly is that?

#DELIGHT I learned how to sew with a machine, to cook a roast and all the fixin’s to entertain my husband’s coworkers, as well as brushing up on my social graces on how to be a good housewife. I daintily pushed back 50 years of feminism with my comment before I demurely beseeched for a Delightful wooden elephant.

I became a great deal more ladylike this year. I started wearing dresses & heels a lot. I cut down my cussing to almost nothing. I started cooking and cleaning for my man on a regular basis. If we’re talking traditional definitions of ladylike, I’m most of the way there. #DELIGHT

#DELIGHT I painted my cell phone with glittery nail polish to show off how girly I am!

#GENTS- I started re-instituting chivalry in my day-day life.

#GENTS - I took apart an old trashed oak desk, refinished the top, and made a new kitchen table.

#GENTS must think what have i done this year to share regarding this matter… well well well - think, that adventure of renewing a boat with some basic tools is good enough to say - it’s a man thing that is done;)

#GENTS - My manly activity of the year was cutting wood in the forest with my bear hands (yes, bear hands) while wearing a my flannel shirt and levi jeans.

#DELIGHT Remembering my manners, I have hand-written Thank-you notes constantly throughout the year, and have just bought new stationary for Christmas thank you notes… Gotta keep my “ladylike” penmanship alive.

#GENT besides life, the manliest thing of the year would have to be re-wiring an entire house!!

#DELIGHT saved up and bought my first chanel purse!!

#DELIGHT I’ve taken to knitting dishcloths for my loved ones—ladylike and sustainable!

#GENTS I took up my son’s carpet and sistered a 2x4 to the floor beam to provide support for some floorboards that the previous owner had left dangling.