I’ve talked a lot about setting your goals and establishing a clear picture of what you want in a man.

I found this awhile back and thought it was interesting. The list is very comprehensive. The more things a man can check off of this list shows his experience, bravery, knowledge and competency.

And he’ll have a few amazing stories to tell I’m sure.

Thought you might like to check it out. http://lifestyle.msn.com:80/your-life/bigger-picture/articlepm.aspx?cp-documentid=11258170

Here’s the list:

Automotive
1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow
3. Check trouble codes
4. Replace fan belt
5. Wax a car
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle
7. Use a stick welder
8. Hitch up a trailer
9. Jump-start a car

Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR
13. Escape a sinking car

Home
14. Carve a turkey
15. Use a sewing machine
16. Put out a fire
17. Home-brew beer
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric
19. Move heavy stuff
20. Grow food
21. Read an electric meter
22. Shovel the right way
23. Solder wire
24. Tape drywall
25. Split firewood
26. Replace a faucet washer
27. Mix concrete
28. Paint a straight line
29. Use a French knife
30. Prune bushes and small trees
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper
33. Change a single-pole switch
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36. Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge
38. Sweat copper tubing
39. Change a diaper
40. Grill with charcoal
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag

Medical
43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick

Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes
49. Make a drum-tight bed
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup

Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe
52. Hang food in the wild
53. Skipper a boat
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
56. Escape a rip current

Survival
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter
59. Find potable water

Surviving Extremes
60. Floods
61. Tornados
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning

Teach Your Kids
65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
67. Change a tire
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
70. Drive a stick shift
71. Parallel park
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle
75. Ride a bike

Technology
76. Install a graphics card
77. Take the perfect portrait
78. Calibrate HDTV settings
79. Shoot a home movie
80. Ditch your hard drive

Master These Key Workshop Tools
81. Drill driver
82. Grease gun
83. Coolant hydrometer
84. Socket wrench
85. Test light
86. Brick trowel
87. Framing hammer
88. Wood chisel
89. Spade bit
90. Circular saw
91. Sledge hammer
92. Hacksaw
93. Torque wrench
94. Air wrench
95. Infrared thermometer
96. Sand blaster
97. Crosscut saw
98. Hand plane
99. Multimeter
100. Feeler gauges

I’m turned on by the man who can check off all 100.

18 Comments »

1. 

   Comment by George — April 22, 2009 @ 8:19 am

   This is not a man it’s wish list of a womans robot. McGyver would be able to some of them, although I’m not sure how domesticated he is. I would love to see the one hundred items that would make the perfect woman. She’d probably be offended. I think it would be great for anyone, man or woman to do all one hundred of the items listed.

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   Comment by Seductress — April 22, 2009 @ 10:39 am

   Good point George, it would be great for anyone, man or woman to have done them all. I’ve done 60…..not bad for a girl I admit, I don’t know what a coolant hydrometer is.

3. 

   Comment by casualencounters.com/blog — April 26, 2009 @ 6:58 pm

   You may find this hard to believe, but not only can I do every single thing on that list, but I can remove pants using only the power of my MIND.

4. 

   Comment by hunter — April 30, 2009 @ 12:35 am

   Casual encounters, you are too much! How funny!..

   To me it sounds like Seductress needs a handy man around the house.

5. 

   Comment by Seductress — April 30, 2009 @ 2:54 pm

   Hunter……perhaps, but I would also add to the list:

   101. Hold a woman like she ought to be held and kiss her like she ought to be kissed!

   Welcome Casualencounters!

6. 

   Comment by hunter — April 30, 2009 @ 5:54 pm

   Seductress, elaborate on how to hold a woman, while kissing her. There seems to be an abundance of women 5ft. 2in. and under, I am 5ft. 10in. and don’t really know how to compensate for the height difference.

7. 

   Comment by Seductress — April 30, 2009 @ 6:35 pm

   Hunter, let me give you a visual. The way Rhett Butler grabbed, held and kissed Scarlett. Strong, forceful, manly…..but hey, that’s me. Some women may like a kitten.

8. 

   Comment by hunter — April 30, 2009 @ 9:48 pm

   Seductress, yes, I agree, that is just you. Not all women want it that way.

9. 

   Comment by CJ — May 15, 2009 @ 8:18 pm

   I agree with your #101 Seductress. Personally, If I met a man that could do half of these things without complaining, I’d marry him today!

10. 

    Comment by Melissa — May 20, 2009 @ 1:01 am

    WOW, I knew I was lucky with my guy, but I know he can, and does, do a majority of those…a few I’d have to check on, some have never come up yet, but about 75%…yea he’s got those in the bag, PLUS, he does laundry, ALL the cooking (he was a sous chef for 7 years), and the dishes, and I’ve yet to have to ask him to take out the trash…and no he doesn’t have any brothers.

11. 

    Comment by hunter — May 20, 2009 @ 5:47 am

    Melissa, just curious, what attracted you to him, or how did you two meet?

12. 

    Comment by Chris K — July 2, 2009 @ 5:22 pm

    “The way Rhett Butler grabbed, held and kissed Scarlett.” I looked up this scene on Youtube. Wow. Here’s my reaction, and if I’m misreading it, I’d really like to understand it better:

    If this actually happened to you (and you reacted like Scarlett) I wonder what kind of blog post you’d write, about the guy that you weren’t into who forced his attentions on you, and how he entirely deserved the assault charge. It sounds like a rape fantasy - it’s fine because the woman is in control, as long as it remains a fantasy.

13. 

    Comment by Seductress — July 2, 2009 @ 8:17 pm

    Welcome Chris, Did you notice Scarlett’s hand wrap around Rhett at the end of that scene? Their’s was a seduction of a true Hunter chasing a Coquette. If you haven’t watched the whole movie, it’d be worth your while to understand the dynamics. She most definately wanted him but it took her the whole movie and a real “rape” for her to realize and admit it.

    I like the way he desired Scarlett, and his strength and mettle….I would never want to live their relationship….as it was disfunctional to the core.

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    Comment by Chris K — July 2, 2009 @ 9:02 pm

    “Did you notice Scarlett’s hand wrap around Rhett at the end of that scene?” - yes, by the end she was getting into it. The danger seems to be that it relies on the guy’s judgement. But I haven’t seen the movie, so his judgement may be more justified than it looks here.

    I want to understand this a lot better. In one case where I held back when a woman resisted, and gave her time - we were going to be in the same city a few weeks later, but she found a boyfriend in the meantime (that she later dumped for being crazy obsessive). I found out much later that he *hadn’t* respected her resistance, combining heavy romantic gestures and (like Rhett) some physical force, and she’d yielded.

    One conclusion I’ve heard guys come about this kind of thing is that “you may as well do her anyway, because if you don’t, some bastard will who’ll treat her much worse.” This is not enough for me. And I know honest communication can also work. (I finally got in the same city as the woman above, years later, and at the right time told her how I felt, & that I wanted to get to know her better, and she reacted very positively. Slow learner, but I learned.)

    But I’m sure I can learn from Rhett Butler and Stanley Kowalski without abandoning my hippie/feminist outlook. (A left-wing bisexual friend told me I was the strongest feminist she knew - I took it as a compliment.)

    What’s your take on this?

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    Comment by Seductress — July 2, 2009 @ 10:47 pm

    Chris, there can be great passion in the element of resistance. To be overwhelmed, taken under the spell of a man is very erotic for a great many women. But you are very correct that it relies on the man’s judgement and can be dangerous. Therefore….

    I would never recommend that a man ignore and push past a woman’s resistance.

    That said: the man that possesses a strong, virile, passionate even slightly dangerous quality and knows what to do with it, is the hottest man.
    Rhett, a refined gentleman and Stanley, bordering on animal both had the quality and in reality, both did misuse it.

    But they DID know their women. There WAS a chemistry and relationship (albeit complicated) between the players. I think we were led to believe in both stories that these men KNEW that if they pushed the women would give in to their deeper desire.

    It’s the stuff romance novels are littered with. It’s a huge fantacy for many women to be wanted that badly and desired so strongly which is why these movies are so hot and romance novels are the largest selling books of any category.

16. 

    Comment by Anne — July 3, 2009 @ 5:08 pm

    Yeah, I’m one of those women who found both Rhett and Stanley hot in those male dominate roles. I’d choose Rhett for a relationship, but Marlon Brando in that role made me want to make him very happy.

17. 

    Comment by hunter — July 5, 2009 @ 6:04 am

    Seductress, but, don’t most novels and these movies, result in NSA sex?

18. 

    Comment by Seductress — July 5, 2009 @ 6:35 pm

    Hunter, not sure I know what you mean…

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