Sam Martin: The quirky world of "manspaces"

[lightandbeautiful]

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[westkan]

In another time the man space was called the den. For much the working class & not exclusive to them, the manspace of years pass was a garage or basement workshop

[randmnumber]

@westkan The word "workspace" is not interchangeable with "manspace".

[apricotsnms516]

You guys are so uptight. Even TED needs some simple humor, and it is interesting to see.

[annabananabo]

You can tell he plays Benson

[SJMxUk]

I suck dick

[randmnumber]

So this is what men have been relegated to? Having to act like children in a playroom? fucking hell

[westkan]

@randmnumber Children in a playroom? I guess you missed the point, that this man's intentions was to build a work space, and the boxing ring is also a workspace. One was a fairly large living space. Perhaps you need a man space where U can wind down?

[toddghall]

A woman's space is the kitchen cooking pie.

j/k

[LeCorbusier1929]

The speaker may not be great looking but he's certainly simple. What's this nonsense doing on TED ?

[asaidsam]

LOL, the reason why women don't need their own space is because the entire house is theirs. And every man knows that. Thus, the reason why we need a manspace...

[Saerain]

No kidding. My partner makes such a mess of our house that I dearly wish I had an one organized, isolated room to work in without stumbling over clothes, shoes, cups and rocks along my way.

I know that the stereotype is that men are slobs and women are pristine, but this is not my modern experience....

[sugarkane2]

of course martin's presentation was not about men-need-spaces-women-do-not-n­eed-a-fuck. of course women can build and have hobbies. don't squabble about every single thing, what are you all, 5 yrs old?

time wasting people.

[MoAoX]

If this is sexist, then woman studies is sexist, "affirmative action" is sexist, female hospitals are sexist, the court system is sexist, woman's organizations are sexist, woman scholarships are sexist, feminist websites are sexist, feminist blogs are sexist, feminist groups are sexist. Saying this is sexist shows the world is truly sexist against men. Women = overgrown children, except children can sometimes be fun.

[shiftyjake]

@MoAoX; I was agreeing with you until you started calling names like the overgrown child you acused your own mother and half the world's population of being.

Anyway, this woman rents, so I can't build a shed in my backyard (and hanging out in a shed without AC in Florida borders on masochism, anyway), but with some work, I managed to turn my room into a fiber arts sanctuary/library. I love it :)

[Allyredstar]

I vote for deviding the house in two, a manspace and a womanspace to be visited by both only with permission, because i think it would make marriage a lot more exiting and relax. In case there are children than devide in 3.

Who invented the idea of sharing a total house together ?!, we are all individuals, also women or children.

[ammre]

I don't see why a place that is isolated for your hobbies or passions is solely male oriented. If there's kids in the house the woman has every right to escape the bastards too.

p.s. i know quite a few ladies that would love the leg lamp. it's a classic from "A christmas story". Not all interior decorating is dependent on the woman.

[brokenjohnny]

Because women don't have hobbies or passions, unless you count TV and gossip.

[MUHAMMADFUCKEDKIDS]

Women don't need extra space!!!!

THE KITCHEN IS ALL SHE SHOULD NEED!

[Mornys]

There are no specific womanspaces because every house occupied by a woman is a womanspace. Try to put your leg lamp there and the woman hits a hammer through your forehead.

[LEEROYYx]

true, we would do that.

[SiliconBong]

A manspace is generally a garage, occasinally an attic, or as it is colloquially known in my country - a 'shed'. : )

[carlingnugent]

wtf? Women want and create 'woman space' too! Is it just me or is this research totally disgustingly sexist?

[Sqirril]

You have a Kitchen, what else do you need?

[LEEROYYx]

bitch

[Sqirril]

Don't be mad, just because the truth hurts

[thedelusionist]

No it is not sexist. That is like saying someone studying oranges has something against apples. When you study manspaces it is a study of manspaces not woman spaces. I get really offended when people play the sexist card when it has nothing to do with anything.

[whiteman59]

this is something men are doing for themselves, a need to be, this guy went out to discover if any other guys were doing as he was, and YES they were, this is guys, and i feel it had nothing to do with or against women, but if you wanted to do your own video of "woman spaces" then we can compare to see how they could be alike and what difference there could be, i would like to see the differences and what would come of it

[adamwebsta]

You're a moron. Get back in the kitchen.

[adamwebsta]

And secondly..women can't build for shit.

[blueskiesmev]

some women do have spaces. My Mom has her own 'office' in her house. My girlfriend has her own space in my apartment.

I don't think the research is sexist, it's just from a man's point of view. If you want some research done into woman spaces, do some. Or if you don't have time commission someone to do some. If you don't have money or time write to someone and explain the need for such a study and compel them to do one.

[Allyredstar]

and mine isn't an open source like manspace

[Allyredstar]

Am i the only woman who wants a "manspace" too ?

[xxxx59xxxx]

You have a manspace. In your vagina.

2ez.

[Allyredstar]

What a cutty answer ! Men can go play golf and find holes everywhere

[SpacedTime]

hahahah, man, i was yawning when I read that and it made me make a walrus sound.

[SloppyCheeseFinger]

no you're totally not. I really want a GalSpace. It would be a damn mess though. Oh wait, I already live in that space...

[LEEROYYx]

I would like on too. ):

[kid29a]

hah that's funny ;)

[jensregler]

pink is just a color

[TehNewV]

why are his sons wearing pink? this guy is such a fag.

[Swidhelm]

Is he a fag? Or are you just not secure in your masculinity? I know lots of guys that wear pink, and you'd never confuse them for being gay.

[invisiblebears]

Wearing pink is super lame. Gay or not, pink is not cool.

[Swidhelm]

By your standards maybe. I don't wear pink, but I don't care if someone else does. I also don't wear yellow. So pink is lame to you, but like it or not it is in, and it is here to stay. It's been in probably since the 80's. It's getting stronger again too. And in the words of Ross Gellar "It's not pink, it's salmon!"

[JohnnyTaco01]

Time + space = money

If this is not a law yet then I shall decree it as one

[cicatriz79]

time+space+work = money

[zappyhod]

Dude...Get a 6 metre long dog leash and connect it to the kid and washing line...Then that becomes "kid-spaces"...he he...

[zappyhod]

Only reason men need "man-spaces" is to get some peace and quiet from "women-spaces"....lol...

[frenzyfol]

Nice to have money and space and time ......

[cheeseit126]

yeah

[tomamil]

i want to build my own squash court :)

[nilbud]

Selfish donks who ignore their family and waste money, who would join such a shower of clowns.

[Waranoa]

Oh GOD, A NEW INTRO!!!111!one!!1

[luigisopa]

give me money and I will....

[spongebathe]

5 minute speech summarized in 3 words "get a hobby"

[YouKnowWhereThisEnds]

*Pukes*

[niekvdbogert]

when i still lived with my parents my manspace was on my bike. Riding it so fast, the wind in my hair and ears. The only way to be truly alone, cause no one could keep up. A transient manspace.

[ratholin]

Cool vid. Makes me glad I live alone whole apartment is my man space.

[mrlowdangle]

same as

my whole studio is pure arse scratching manspace heaven since 'she' left,i love it, its an aladdins cave of all my various hobbies,fetishes and oddities

[CilantroHater]

I think it was Prof. Dennis Hector of University of Miami School of Architecture, who wrote an article about the decrease in male space in western society. It is an interesting subject. I'd love to know more.

[MRSketch09]

@Vid

I enjoyed it.

[Charles2337]

i would make a sex theme lol

[ferre347]

i have my space for knitting and reading, that means even women can have passions and womenspaces.. lol

nice vid

[dave597]

cool is that a new logo? :)

[Finiras]

i dont have a passion

[MDSguy]

i wish i had a manspace for my transformer toy gear

[CiphersSon]

every 1 of my vids is in my realm 'nredspace'

3:56

work

o me o my i'm neglected sub to my chan lol yayaya

[chikotube]

nice new intro sequence

[supajive]

i lost my man space when i got married, now I just live in my wife's space.

[gotilk]

I had to thumb you down for your own good.

[log6778]

good stuff

[ehhhhhhhhhh]

I wish I had the manskills and mantime to manbuild a manspace of my own....

[funkalunatic]

Finding a place to hide and masturbate is for adolescents. Real men don't waste their time building selfish spaces.

[jesuriah]

Real men have caves, where they and they alone rule.

[gotilk]

Real men know they can masturbate anywhere.

[funkalunatic]

Precisely

[gotilk]

What I meant was that IF a man's reason for building a private space is just because he thinks he has to hide to masturbate, his problems run much deeper and he probably doesn't have privacy.. ever.. anyway. And if someone thinks all a man ever does when he is alone is masturbate, obviously that person has only observed a man alone for about 15 minutes. We always do other stuff after. Sometimes we bypass the masturbation entirely and just go straight to the woodworking.

[ForOrAgainstUs]

"We always do other stuff after. "

lol, i love how it's implied that, while masturbation isn't our only priority, it's definitely our number 1 priority.

[gotilk]

IMPLIED? lol

[shashintokyo]

My life is my man space.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

My space is my man life?

[bmed19]

My space is my life, man.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

My man is my space, life.

[papatoony]

Al Bundy had a manspace!

[Justwosweet]

The wife takes the whole house. You have to have a manspace

[morelshaman]

I built a

Underground

Floating

Object

at an old farmhouse - in the cistern.

The cistern was 20' deep & 15' diam.

I build a 14' dock w/ hole in the center so a ladder could be used to reach from the manhole cover entrance. It had elec. & a sump pump so the h2o wouldn't overwhelm.

It was a private marijuana garden for me & 2 other guys - so menspace.

It was used for only 2 harvest, but it worked perfectly.

I no longer live there, but the dock still floats in the cistern. Try it, it works.

[mcgrawtim123]

I built my "man space" shop in the garage. My brother has one too, he calls "the man hut".

Couldn't live without mine. A sanctuary from the madness.

[Solis1112]

who the hell names his son FORD

[blicblak]

who the hell posts a concert of their sister on youtube? don't be an ass, Ass.

[Solis1112]

okay, i was out of place.

and that not my sisters concert. its my girlfriends concert i posted so she could show her family in Florida. LOTS of people post videos of these concerts.

[Sc0tt08]

many people do as matter of fact

[P00P0STER0US]

Excellent idea! I will begin immediately with the purchase of a global domination-style pantsuit.

[dapnd]

Good topic, crappy talk

[xXAkridXx]

I don't need to make a man space because I don't have any woman space to begin with.

[macnutz]

Yep, Manspace, first thing on my agenda after I sell the damned novel. :)

[Petchhyy]

Anybody seen that guy who built the inside of a submarine? That was one damn fine manspace.

[aartvegan]

That is in New Zealand.

[jordanowen42]

Being single and a musician, my manspace is pretty much the whole house.

[TerhiTheFinn]

My man space is my marijuana plantation in Savannah, Ja~~wja.

[ffunit]

My manspace is going to be the lab I put in my basement ;)

[Anjimom]

Awesome!

[berzma]

i liked very much the japanese space..i want one!

this reminds me the book, "Inquiry by design", describes how people adapt living space to their needs and pleasure. Just like you put some colorful figures on your office desktop. It focus on how we really need to adapt space to ourselves.

[spikesmth]

I call mine "The Lair"

[SlacktiveAction]

Damn it! Stuck watching TED when I should be insulating the ManSpace. It's just wrong to have a manspace that shrivels the manhood...

[jwil2570]

Awesome intro! Win.

[BaileysBeads]

Travelling is my man-space.

[ICharmaine]

Great Vid! We all need our own spaces...both men and women alike!!!

[slysci5]

a womans space constitutes the entire house. yours constitutes of your car( if u dont share one) and a man space(if u can afford one)

[shadman1911]

my manspace is full of electronics, gadgets, stuff about cars... old computers and LED blue lights... men love LEDs... I just don't get why women don't have this kinda stuff... If did they probably would stop bitiching about everything we do!

[smkymcnugget420]

MANSPACE?...they are called mancaves.

[justforwatchingcraps]

i'm gonna make a batcave

[brdual1ty]

ill second that one :D

[isaidmrw]

Don't forget the giant penny.

[drealm]

My whole house is a man space. No womens allowed.

[franknyt]

Love the new intro. Thanks for finally changing it.

[Sammydepammy]

i to have a space (room) for all my stuff . to relax or watch a game.or just read a book in peace.its very comforting to have all of my cool stuff in arms reach.(pc.guitar,books etc).

[NikiDaDude]

Oh damn it, I build my first wooden house in the back yard when I was 7, I've spent a lot of summer nights reading comics there.

I guess we men just take this need too seriously :)

[wolffenhaus]

oh please.

[depravedumpling]

YES New intro!

[aminizle]

my man space will be like a cave with high tech gadgets hidden....kinda like the batcave only then not so corny and emo :)

[penutwi]

my future manspace is going to be the place where i can just sit and drum till my arms fall off :)

[csamw65]

Heck yeah! My sculpture studio's my Man Cave. I pretty much live there. I think I'd slowly decline into madness without it.

[RowanFortuneWood]

Why is this addressed specifically to men? Is personal and customizable space a gendered issue?

[reptilezsweden]

It's addressed to men because that's what he researched.

[RowanFortuneWood]

That merely raises the same question regarding his research.

[isaidmrw]

By focusing on "manspaces," he probably wasn't denying the same want for personal space that women need. The concept of a manspace isn't new and he simply chose to focus on it from a male perspective because he, himself, chose to build a manspace. I think personal and customizable space CAN be a gendered issue and that's mostly when we just want to get away from each other, but it isn't usually gendered issue.

[manwaring]

I wouldn't bother trying to bring an level of academic discussion to something like this. It's the kind of thing that makes you realize how vacuous sociology is.

[reptilezsweden]

He researched manspaces since HE was building A manspace. It's not suppose to state that women doesn't need personal spaces. I can see that you are one of those people who has to push equality to ridicules lengths. -- Or to quote George Carlin: "... they take it too far. They want me to call that cover in the street a person-hole cover, a "the person in the moon", kids are afraid of the boogeyperson, thats the kind of thing you'd hear on Late Night With David Letterperson!"

[stevenaudet]

I'm sorry, but usually the house itself is filled with decoration and objets that the wife wants (mostly in the bedroom, the kitchen and the washroom). Even the couch in the living room is usually picked by the wife, And if I'd dare take a comfortable lazyboy which does not fit with the rest of the deco... I'd be dead! ;) A man space is really important to find ourselves in our environment. Btw, I love Georges Carlin too! Miss him... RIP

[hofmeier]

We're supposed to endorse perspectives on masculinity from a man with bangs, a lisp, and a son named "Wren?"

[canadianmaple09]

Look at the picture of his sons at 0:25 ... both wearing pink shirts...

[Sc0tt08]

it's not about portraying masculinity--it's simply about spaces for a males.