Nintendo's 'Captain Toad' Will Teach Boys To [Not] Be Men

Forbes ^ | 12/01/2014 @ 10:03AM | Jordan Shapiro

[BenLurkin]

For example, one thing I’m concerned about is the damsel in distress trope. In particular, it seems problematic that Princess Peach has been kidnapped in 12 out of 19 games in the Super Mario series

Why does that matter? Because it sends the wrong message to my sons (seven and nine years old). I don’t want to raise average men. I want to raise politically progressive individuals who are compassionate, tolerant, and patient. I want to make sure my boys are not beholden to, nor complicit in perpetuating, gender-normative (and/or hetero-normative) social constructions.

[Olog-hai]

You had an extra quotation mark in the link.

Prager should not make the depraved state sound like the original state. It is not the sex drive that leads to it, but heeding the god of this world.

[envisio]

end-table paperweight

I thumb through magazines like that looking for any pictures of scantily clad ladies. Then they are reserved for fire-starting or lining my crazy aunt's birdcages.

[envisio]

So am I.

My dad did everything he could to raise a man.

“””gender-normative (and/or hetero-normative) social constructions”””

Is that what they are teaching in Berkeley now? Do these hipsters really sit around and talk like this?
Jeez, we never sat around tea talking like this. We sat around beer talking about hunting or hotrods. Or not talking at all because we were too tired from WORKING.

[chris37]

This is the same type of person who raised that kid who got mugged and then said he deserved it because of white privilege.

Men in this country, for the most part, have become a bunch of stinking, little sissies.

I trust that they will eliminate themselves from the gene pool soon enough.

[infowarrior]

either way he is a fool. fools should not be suffered gladly.

Fools should not be suffered at all...

the infowarrior

[stinkerpot65]

Another pic ...

I doubt this little fruit knows much about manhood. Besides no "man" would utter the phrase "gender-normative".

[vpintheak]

You can bet your behind, this “man” would punish his boys if they show an ounce of manliness.

[trisham]

He probably subscribes to the “lie back and think of England” method of procreation.

[RansomOttawa]

Dear Princess:

Gone for a mani-pedi. Rescue your own damn self.

Love,
Mario

[HamiltonJay]

” nor complicit in perpetuating, gender-normative (and/or hetero-normative) social constructions”

So you want your son’s to be abnormal... With a mom like you, they are half way there... keep it up fruitcake.

[wardaddy]

There is more truth there than folks realize

I live in hipster progressive mecca

Nashville

like Austin and Denver they swarm in here like ants at picnic

The boys are the sorriest excuse for white boys with their tight jeans and silly beards and stocking caps

And the woman usually drives their little shite car

But the girls are hot.

Long hair cute clothes... thin...make up...besides their chinniness my only beef is maybe those Kennedy eye glasses

But...and wife concurs.... what would these girls do if enveloped by a real man with a brow and jaw and at least some brawn

An alpha guy..
.physical.

Rock their painted toe curling little worlds

The boys just don’t seem up to the quality of the woman today

Black and Vato guys must think modern white boys are such pushovers

Black guys wonder how they hell they ever got enslaved by these jackasses and Vatos wonder these pu$$ies conquered my Azteca slash Commanche ancestors....really.....they look like they just need a good cry

My boys look all old school....will be real men in time...its all about how you’re raised.

Or if u had a Santini dad or yer mom was a man hating moonbat

How could women possibly get hot and bothered for such dolts?

Alan Alda are you happy now?

I see these girls seeking a better stock of seed...women been doing that forever

[onedoug]

Thanks.

Basic, ‘67 Ft Gordon GA, M-14. Beautiful weapon. Wish I had it now.

[NorthMountain]

Sorry ... I mis-typed ... it fits under the M16 ... I suppose you could kludge it on to an M14, but I'm unaware of anybody actually doing that.

[wardaddy]

Yes

Women have not freed women from rape and pillage era

Men did

Men who knew how to kill

[onedoug]

It did seem a bit clumsy to visualize. Thanks, though. Combat arms are always interesting.

I was fairly good at arching the M-79 in Vietnam. Very effective weapon within 10 to 50 yards, or so.

[Bob]

Does his having two sons mean that he actually engaged in that horribly heteronormative act of coitus, twice even? He sounds like the kind of guy that sits to pee.

[hattend]

I'm actually surprised he managed to procreate.

He never said he did. He and his "significant other" could be playing two daddies to adopted kids.

[wastedyears]

So teach them to be gender-confused sissies that get offended at the word “damn.”

[Windflier]

Sadly, liberals in this country seem to outnumber the Americans at the moment.

If that's true, please explain how our side delivered an electoral beat-down to the Dems like they haven't had since 1924?

Don't let the MSM pummel you into believing that libs are the majority. They're not. Never have been.