America's Manliest Cities
July 21, 2012 9:04 PM Subscribe
America's Manliest Cities -- "The rankings were determined using 50 of the largest metropolitan areas as defined by the United States Census Bureau, which includes a central city and the surrounding county (or counties). All data was adjusted by the current population to arrive at ‘per capita’ figures, providing an accurate comparison between cities of varying sizes." The manliest city? Nashville! The most emasculating city? San Francisco!
Sports --- In addition to the number of professional major league sports teams in a city (football, baseball, basketball and hockey), the number of nearby NASCAR tracks and racing events were taken into account along with the quality of pro sports, based on ESPN’s “Ultimate Standings” fan survey and “The Donovan Index” (www.donovanindex.com).
Manly Lifestyle --- Various consumer behaviors in each city were analyzed, such as the number of pickups and motorcycles registered in the city, rodeo events, sports TV viewing, fishing and home improvement.
Cities also lost points for an overabundance of emasculating criteria – factors that reduced a city’s manliness rating. These factors included the number of home furnishing and décor stores, cafés/coffee shops, sushi restaurants, “modern” male apparel stores and cupcake shops. Cities with higher concentrations of these types of stores lost rating points.
Sports --- In addition to the number of professional major league sports teams in a city (football, baseball, basketball and hockey), the number of nearby NASCAR tracks and racing events were taken into account along with the quality of pro sports, based on ESPN’s “Ultimate Standings” fan survey and “The Donovan Index” (www.donovanindex.com).
Manly Lifestyle --- Various consumer behaviors in each city were analyzed, such as the number of pickups and motorcycles registered in the city, rodeo events, sports TV viewing, fishing and home improvement.
Cities also lost points for an overabundance of emasculating criteria – factors that reduced a city’s manliness rating. These factors included the number of home furnishing and décor stores, cafés/coffee shops, sushi restaurants, “modern” male apparel stores and cupcake shops. Cities with higher concentrations of these types of stores lost rating points.
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is not a great post for Metafilter. -- restless_nomad
Who... wha...
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...how does stuff like this even get written?
posted by kavasa at 9:14 PM on July 21, 2012
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...how does stuff like this even get written?
posted by kavasa at 9:14 PM on July 21, 2012
Dear Combos Brand Snacks,
Fuck you.
Growl,
benito
P.S. Is that manly enough?
P.P.S. I'm feeling so macho I'm gonna flag this as offensive and sexist.
posted by benito.strauss at 9:14 PM on July 21, 2012 [1 favorite]
Fuck you.
Growl,
benito
P.S. Is that manly enough?
P.P.S. I'm feeling so macho I'm gonna flag this as offensive and sexist.
posted by benito.strauss at 9:14 PM on July 21, 2012 [1 favorite]
So... I understand the point of writing and posting an article like this, but what's the point of making it an FPP on Metafilter?
posted by Anoplura at 9:18 PM on July 21, 2012
posted by Anoplura at 9:18 PM on July 21, 2012
I was going to say this is a stupid list, but who am I to disagree with Sgt. Slaughter?
posted by key lime guy at 9:19 PM on July 21, 2012
posted by key lime guy at 9:19 PM on July 21, 2012
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