A Man's Guide to Pinterest

Categories and Searches
If you’re looking to expand beyond the above pinners and boards, I recommend browsing through the following male-centric searches and categories on Pinterest.

Categories
Men’s Fashion
This is one of the main categories on Pinterest where they collect all the men’s style pins into one place. Most of the items are a bit too metrosexual for my tastes, but there are some gems.

Cars & Motorcycles
Another main Pinterest category. I’ll probably never own most of the cars and bikes pinned here, but they’re fun to look at it.

Outdoors
Category filled with lots of camping and outdoor tips.

Searches
Wishlist
Women can be hard to shop for. At least that’s been my experience. It’s hard for us guys to find something “cute” or “unique” so we usually just default to body lotions that we picked up at the last minute from Bath and Body Works.

Pinterest solves this age-old male problem. Just search for “wishlist” and you’ll instantly have access to thousands of gift ideas for the women in your life. Christmas shopping for my wife just got a whole lot easier.

Wife Should Cook
I got a hoot out of this. When you search “wife should cook” you’ll get about a dozen boards created by men who are curating all the stuff they want the Mrs. to cook for them. I’ve actually gotten some good ideas from these boards. But I cooked them myself! Cooking duties are equally traded in the McKay household.

Husband Should Wear
While the men of Pinterest want their wives to bake double-stuffed cookies for them, the women of Pinterest want their husbands to quit dressing like slobs. Turnabout is fair play, I guess. If you’re a man, you’ll actually find some good ideas for upgrading your wardrobe from these boards.

By the way, in the past few months several Pinterest-type sites geared towards men have popped up. My favorite is Gentlemint. Definitely recommend signing up and browsing the items gents are “minting” there.

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Founded in January 2008, The Art of Manliness is a blog focused on reviving the lost art of manliness. With over 7 million monthly page views, The Art of Manliness represents a new kind of magazine for men, one that focuses on helping men become better citizens, fathers, husbands, friends, and simply all around better men. Husband and wife team, Brett and Kate McKay head up the up the blog. They live in Tulsa, OK.

Brett McKay

Founded in January 2008, The Art of Manliness is a blog focused on reviving the lost art of manliness. With over 7 million monthly page views, The Art of Manliness represents a new kind of magazine for men, one that focuses on helping men become better citizens, fathers, husbands, friends, and simply all around better men. Husband and wife team, Brett and Kate McKay head up the blog. They live in Tulsa, OK.

Sid

As a long time reader of Art of Manliness and as a male Pinterest user, it’s good to see an article like this. I’ve known male friends who refuse to admit that they’ve looked up hairstyles or shoes on Pinterest, but I have no problem admitting I have an account. The site is just like any photoblog, and if more men would jump on, we could get some interesting things. In addition, there are male-centered pinboards such as gentlemint out there.
Josh

It’s funny that there’s no “Pin It” button on this article
Tyler

Anyone ever tried Gentlemint? On this site, which is highly geared towards the male user, you “Mint” items which are shared on the main page with everyone. I have never used or been on Pinterest, but I assume they are similar concepts.

If you want to give it a try, let me know… I currently have two invites to provide.
Steve

Pinterest is a powerful tool. But I fear being so dominated by women it loses it’s most powerful feature–that being the social aspect. One can’t quite follow other women because they will stink up your feed with girly stuff. And the lighter-in-the-loafers “style” and “decorating” male feeds aren’t much better.

But I’m game to try it–maybe as a bookmarking thing as much as anything. I’m @ZymurgySteve if anybody’s interested..
Pavel

So what you think about tumblr, there? There are some pretty nice man blogs.
ronancray

My wife says, “It’s strange that men don’t use Pinterest more, because they’re more visual. Oh… because you can’t pin porn.”
Steve

My wife got me into Pinterest over the summer and it is quite addictive. My page is definitely not of the uber-manly caliber of the ones mentioned in is article, but I have out a great deal of ArtOfManliness things on there. Feel free to check it out and thanks to everyone else out there I repinned from. (Pinterest: sjwhiddon)
Brandon R

My wife is a “I have to see it” kinda person so if I want to do something to the house I have to show her first. I used to have to keep a bunch of useless bookmarks or print stacks of pictures out. Now I can just send her a link and get back to demo.
greg urbano

what a great find here, pinterest for manly men!
now i can pin more than recipes!
http://dysfunctionaldose.com/ Nikki

I love this because I’ve been trying to get my husband to join pinterest. Emailing it to him now!

Nikki
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