A group of friends who live in Cleveland Park recently decided to take their men’s club online and into the blogosphere, launching the Cleveland Park Men’s Club, where the men blog behind a variety of pseudonyms: from “The Chef” and “The Dean” to “Capo.” (Two are pictured here in this early post.) In a post titled “Where have all the cowboys gone?” they lay out their raison d’être:

So keep bemoaning the loss of “real men,” while refusing to acknowledge that the entire edifice of civilization itself, with all the political, economic, and technological accoutrements that now allow you to operate free of men, has rested on a social contract as old as American chicks are naïve: You be a woman, be accountable to me, and raise my kids, and I’ll be a man, be accountable to you, and provide (everything) for you. … Men have crossed oceans and mountain ranges, fought wars, and built lots of stuff so that their women would have the best. We planned it all without you, behind closed doors, in men’s clubs.

As you might expect their blog has attracted some dissenters, one posting “Indeed, when people feel compelled to create a blog such as this, one can only imagine that it is the result of some significant penile envy and general character flaws.” Not everyone was upset – a certain Steve Zarick from the Washington Wizards posted a comment offering the club members free tickets to an April game complete with “in-game recognition.”

One of the problems with using a Blogger.com template is that it can be easily duplicated. That’s exactly what a group of women realized, launching the corollary Cleveland Park Junior League, where “Lady Jane Grey,” “The Governess,” and “The Duchess” operate “Northwest DC’s Most Exclusive Women’s Social Club” and practice “the lost art of classic femininity,” with early posts railing against “haterz” and offering us a peek inside their club.